Knocking about the ruins
by John Gross
The fourth in a series on “The future of the European past.”
The fourth in a series on “The future of the European past.”
On Corot at the Metropolitan Museum of Art & other recent exhibitions of the artist’s work
On Melville: A Biography by Laurie Robertson-Lorant & Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume I: 1819-1851 by Hershel Parker
T.S. Eliot’s poems, with an introduction by David Yezzi
A defense of the composer & a review of Randy Newman’s Faust
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On the retrospective of the artist’s work at the Guggenheim Museum, New York
On Karol Armitage’s The Predators’ Ball: Hucksters of the Soul
On the journalism industry & the turn against Clinton
On recent books by Charles Simic, A. R. Ammons, Robert Hass, C. K. Williams, Joseph Brodsky & Anthony Hecht
Review of Dewey Defeats Truman by Thomas Mallon
Review of In Search of Nature by Edward O. Wilson
On the symposium at NYU on Alan Sokal & the Social Text hoax
Notes & Comments
Knowledge or ghettoization?
by The Editors
On the Afro-American studies department at Harvard
Multiculturalism as campus orthodoxy
by The Editors
On the policy at UMass Amherst establishing “contributions to multiculturalism” as a measure of faculty performance