Henry James & the life of art
by Hilton Kramer
On the contrasting views of James by different biographers.
Features
The first half of Muriel Spark
by Roger Kimball
A review of Curriculum Vitae by Muriel Spark.
From the workshop of Torres-GarcÃa
by Karen Wilkin
On “El Taller Torres-GarcÃa: The School of the South & Its Legacy” at the Bronx Museum of the Arts.
The false philosophy of Peter Singer
by Jenny Teichman
On the bioethics of euthanasia.
The world & Peter Taylor
by Bruce Bawer
On The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court & earlier story collections.
Poems
Music
Leon Botstein attempts to save music
by Samuel Lipman
On the pitfalls of trying to “update” classical music.
Art
From Tung Ch’i-ch’ang’s China to David Ross’s Manhattan
by Jed Perl
On The Century of Tung Ch’i-ch’ang at the Metropolitan Museum of Art & the 1993 Whitney Biennial.
Exhibition note
by Eric Gibson
On “Susan Rothenberg” at the Hirshhorn Museum.
Exhibition note
by Roger Kimball
On “Max Ernst” at MOMA.
Books
The flaying of America
by James Bowman
A review of Culture of Complaint by Robert Hughes.
Orphan asylum
by X.J. Kennedy
A review of Collected Poems, 1953-1993 by John Updike.
Red pencils
by Brooke Allen
A review of Proofs by George Steiner.
Time & the great dead
by Cynthia Zarin
A review of The Third Kind of Knowledge by Robert Fitzgerald.
“Style”–or whatever
by J. Duncan Berry
Seasons of belief
by Tess Lewis
A review of What Remains & The Author’s Dimension by Christa Wolf.
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Letters to the Editor
Letters
by The Editors
Regarding Jacques Maritain.
Notes & Comments
The Sixties revolution & its legacy
by The Editors