October 2002
Campus “diversity”
On the politics of our professorate.
On the politics of our professorate.
On Susan Sontag’s empty metaphors.
On the achievement and life of Partisan Review’s co-editor.
On our most famous anthropologist and the failures of the discipline.
On “Exposed: The Victorian Nude,” at the Brooklyn Museum.
On occasioned by Speer: The Final Verdict, by Joachim Fest, the author revisits his time with Hilter’s favorite artist and wonders how Speer got away with murder.
Considering the French author on his two-hundredth birthday.
Book browsing in these unenlightened cities.
On the new adaptation of Rogers & Hart’s Boys From Syracuse.
On “The City of K.: Franz Kafka and Prague” at the Jewish Museum.
On Leland Bell at Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, and Georg Baselitz at Pace-Wildenstein.
On the big joys of “little opera.”
On the most talked-about war, or non-war, in history.
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