The achievement of Ralph Ellison
by James Tuttleton
On the career of Ralph Ellison and The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison edited by John F. Callahan.
Features
Cézanne at the Grand Palais
by Karen Wilkin
On “Cézanne” at the Grand Palais, Paris.
What Gore remembers
by John Simon
On Gore Vidal’s memoir Palimpsest.
Modernist spirits: Apollinaire’s “Alcools”
by Donald Lyons
On The Cubist Poets in Paris: An Anthology edited, translated and with an introduction by L. C. Breunig, and Alcools by Guillaume Apollinaire, translated and with an introduction by Donald Revell.
Poems
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Theater
Dwindling dramatically
by Mark Steyn
On Northeast Local at Lincoln Center, New England at Manhattan Theater Club.
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The media
The very prime of prime time?
by James Bowman
On overstating the dramatic merits of contemporary television.
Dance
The legacy of Mr. B
by Laura Jacobs
On George Balanchine as a teacher and artist.
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Music
Pollini plays Beethoven
by James F. Penrose
On Maurizio Pollini at Carnegie Hall.
Verse chronicle
Martyrs to language
by William Logan
On Can You Hear Bird by John Ashbery, Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991-1995 by Adrienne Rich, Red Sauce, Whiskey, and Snow by August Kleinzahler, The Art of Drowning by Billy Collins, Mother Love by Rita Dove, Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected by Stanley Kunitz, and Worldling by Elizabeth Spires.
Books
Misalliance
by Brooke Allen
On the Selected Correspondence of Bernard Shaw, Vol. 2: Bernard Shaw & H. G. Wells, edited by J. Percy Smith and H. G.: The History of Mr. Wells, by Michael Foot.
Emperor of chemistry
by Paul Gross
On Linus Pauling’s great discoveries.
Priestesses together
by Robert Richman
Notebook
Seamus Heaney’s “middle voice”
by Richard Tillinghast
On Heaney’s poetry.
Notes & Comments
Onanastics, anyone?
by the Editors
Virtual art
by the Editors