Modernism & its institutions
by Hilton Kramer
The second in a series titled “Lengthened shadows.”
Features
The anti-American obsession
by Jean-François Revel
Adapted from the book Anti-Americanism, a translation of Jean-François Revel’s L’obsession anti-americaine: Son fonctionnement, ses causes, ses inconsequences published in September by Encounter Books (www.encounterbooks.com).
The poet of the Reich
by John Simon
On Secret Germany: Stefan George and His Circle by Robert E. Norton.
Orwell on writing
by Jeffrey Meyers
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History by other means
by Anthony Daniels
On Cambodia after the Khmer Rouge.
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Theater
Trumbos play the big parade
by Mark Steyn
On Trumbo at the Westside theater.
Art
Whither the psychodramas?
by James Panero
On Miracle in the Scrap Heap: The Sculpture of Richard Stankiewicz at AXA Gallery & Ellsworth Kelly: Red Green Blue— Paintings and Studies 1958-1965 at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Music
Salzburg chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On the Summer Festival in Salzburg.
The media
The wages of spin
by James Bowman
On the dishonesty of politicians.
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Books
His secret life
by F. H. Buckley
A review of The Thurber Letters: The Wit, Wisdom, and Surprising Life of James Thurber, Harrison Kinney, editor & Thurber Country: A Collection of Pieces About Males and Females, Mainly of Our Own Species,by James Thurber.
The best Good Book
by Paul Dean
A review of God’s secretaries, by Adam Nicolson.
A return to BEA
by Brooke Allen
A review of Elspeth Huxley: A Biography, by C. S. Nicholls.
Two visions of paradise
by Renee Winegarten
A review of El Paraiso en la otra esquina, by Mario Vargas Llosa.
Literary leftovers
by Stephen Schwartz
A review of Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left, by Alan M. Wald.
Settling the score
by David R. Slavitt
A review of Do I Owe You Something? A Memoir of the Literary Life, by Michael Mewshaw.
Notebook
The victory of Posidippus
by James Gardner
On the poetry of Posidippus of Pella.
Notes & Comments
O Canada?
by The Editors
On Paul Lewis in The Globe and Mail.
A bake sale in Texas
by The Editors
On “affirmative action” and the price of cookies at Southern Methodist Univ.