Who was Dwight Macdonald?
by Hilton Kramer
On Macdonald’s life and beliefs.
Features
Without rancor: Sybille Bedford’s achievement
by Roger Kimball
On Sybille Bedford’s writing.
Wordless secrets: the cinema of Ingmar Bergman
by Jeremy Murray-Brown
A review of Images: My Life In Film by Ingmar Bergman.
The career of Harold Laski
by Edward Shils
On one of the best-known academic intellectuals.
Poems
Art
Rubens & his age
by Karen Wilkin
On “The Age of Rubens” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Exhibition note
by Roger Kimball
On “William Bailey: Selected Works” at the André Emmerich Gallery.
Exhibition note
by Eric Gibson
On “Robert Morris: The Mind/Body Problem” at the Guggenheim Museum.
Architecture
Frank Lloyd Wright comes to MoMA
by Susan Woldenberg
On a show on architecture in an art museum.
Most popular
Theater
Can’t anyone here play this game?
by Donald Lyons
On Damn Yankees & other failed Broadway revivals.
The media
Swagger & attitude
by James Bowman
On the importance of being “bad”.
Books
The genius of capitalism
by David Frum
Real powers
by Sam Tanenhaus
A review of It All Adds Up by Saul Bellow.
Understanding Arendt
by Jenny Teichman
A review of Essays in Understanding by Hannah Arendt.
Slip slidin’ away
by Patti Hagan
A review of Cycles of Rock and Water by Kenneth A. Brown.
Doleful laureate
by Michael Glover
On two Tennyson biographies by Peter Levi and Michael Thorn.
Shorter notice
by Tess Lewis
Of Strolls with Pushkin by Andrei Sinyavsky.
Shorter notice
by Jeffrey Bloom
Of Life After God by Douglas Coupland.
Notes & Comments
Exit comparative literature, enter “cultural productions”
by The Editors
Philosophy made him do it
by The Editors
“Zeitgeist of the week”
by The Editors