Books
Features
A solitary soul: the career of Kate Chopin
by James Tuttleton
Polykleitos redivivus
by Beryl Barr-Sharrar
On an exhibition of copies of works by the ancient Greek sculptor in Frankfurt am Rhein.
Rolfe Humphries: in the American grain
by Ruth Limmer
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Music
Sellars trumps Mozart
by Samuel Lipman
On the PBS telecasts of three Mozart operas produced by Peter Sellars.
Theater
Büchner, Ibsen, and Mr. Wilson’s highchairs
by Donald Lyons
On Jean Cocteau Repertory productions of plays by Büchner & Ibsen & the American Repertory production of the Robert Brustein/Robert Wilson When We Dead Awaken.
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Art
Fauvists as tourists
by Jed Perl
On “The Fauve Landscape” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Quisling criticism: the case of Paul de Man
by James Tuttleton
A review of Signs of the Times: Deconstruction & the Fall of Paul de Man by David Lehman.
Notes from the surface
by Bruce Bawer
A review of American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis.
The Merton fieldmouse
by Jeffrey Meyers
A review of Edmund Blunden by Barry Webb.
France between the lines
by Mark Falcoff
A review of My France by Eugen Weber.
At a tangent
by Robert Richman
A review of Selected Poems, 1966-1987 by Seamus Heaney.
Shorter notice
by Lauren Weiner
Of A Writer’s Reality by Mario Vargas Llosa.
Shorter notice
by Christopher Carduff
Of Out of Step by Jonathan Yardley.
Notes & Comments
The NEA goes multicultural
by the Editors
On NEA staff training in “cultural diversity” & other matters.
“White male writers” comes to Georgetown
by the Editors
On a course that teaches the works of Melville, Hawthorne, et al., as representative products of white American males.
Next target: the art schools
by the Editors