The marriage of Marx & Freud
by Roger Kimball
The fourth in a series titled Reflections on a cultural revolution.
Features
The blacklist as history
by Ron Radosh
On the fiftieth anniversary of the Hollywood blacklist.
Nabokov in America
by Donald Lyons
On the three-volume Vladimir Nabokov published by the Library of America.
Egon Schiele at MOMA
by Karen Wilkin
On Schiele’s life and art.
Poems
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Theater
Muddled “marivaudage”
by Mark Steyn
On The Triumph of Love & other plays.
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Art
Persevering in paint: Steve Wheeler & Thomas Nozkowski
by Mario Naves
On two modern artists.
Dance
Computer games: Merce Cunningham at BAM
by Laura Jacobs
On a fascinating choreography of Cunningham’s dances.
Music
Kurt Masur conducts Brahms
by James F. Penrose
On performing the Brahms symphonies.
Music note
by John Simon
On “Opera & Politics: From Monteverdi to Menze” by John Bokina.
Music note
by David Mermelstein
On Manon by Jules Massenet, at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York.
The media
The morality of the wasteland
by James Bowman
On Ellen DeGeneres & the television as a perceived instrument of moral influence.
Fiction chronicle
Violating the cardinal rules
by Brooke Allen
A review of Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology edited by Paula Geyh, Fred G. Leebron & Andrew Levy.
Books
Blasts from the past
by James Wolcott
Substitutes for truth
by Jenny Teichman
Postwar solipsisms
by Tess Lewis
Reviews of The Reader by Bernhard Schlink, translated by Caro Brown Janeway & Last Trolley from Beethovenstraat by Grete Weil, translated by John Barret.
Notebook
Letter from London: Charles Saatchi’s YBAs
by David Cohen
On “Sensation: Young British Artists” from the Saatchi Collection at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Notes & Comments
Intellectual frontiers
by the Editors
Roger Bowen & The New York Times defend SUNY’s Revolting Behavior & Subject to Desire conferences.
Meanwhile, back at Yale . . .
by the Editors
More about the Bass grant & Western culture at Yale.