The MLA centennial follies
by Hilton Kramer
On the literary association’s annual convention.
Features
Music in partibus infidelium
by Samuel Lipman
On Wagner and his theoretical writings.
Derrida’s dullards, Woolf’s womyn
by Bruce Bawer
On the Modern Language Association.
The Dostoevsky case
by Joseph Frank
An introduction to Dostoevsky’s “Statement on the Petrashevsky Affair”.
Statement on the Petrashevsky Affair
by Feodor Dostoevsky
Translated from the Russian & annotated by Liza A. Knapp.
Artful lying: novelists as biographers
by Marnie Jones
On the controversial nature of biographies.
Art
The brevity of Juan Gris
by Dan Hofstadter
On Juan Gris’s talent and character.
Most popular
Theater
Tennessee Williams and the fiddle in the wings
by Mimi Kramer
On the John Dexter production of The Glass Menagerie.
Music
Messiaen at the Opéra
by Patrick J. Smith
On the paradox of Messiae’s performance.
Books
Notebook
Philosophizing at the Boston-Sheraton
by Roger Kimball
On the meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division.
