Cynthia Ozick’s farewell to T. S. Eliot—and high culture
by Hilton Kramer
On Ozick’s essay T. S. Eliot at 101 in The New Yorker.
Features
Raymond Williams in retrospect
by Maurice Cowling
On Raymond Williams’s ideas.
Primary painting: Sonia Delaunay
by Deborah Rosenthal
On Sonia Delaunay’s life and art.
Tone and language in the historical novel
by Marguerite Yourcenar
Translated from the French by Walter Kaiser.
Constantine FitzGibbon: a portrait
by Denys Sutton
On FitzGibbon’s struggles and principles in his life and writing.
Poems
Art
Half a dozen contemporaries
by Jed Perl
On Violet Baxter, Barbara Bloom & others.
Music
Refurbishing Caruso and company
by Samuel Lipman
On musical treasures.
The Kronos at Alice Tully
by Dana Mack
On repertoires and performances.
Books
Sound and fury
by D.G. Myers
A review of The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Criticism by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Minimalism revisted
by Eric Gibson
A review of Minimalism by Kenneth Baker & Labyrinths: Robert Morris, Minimalism & the 1960s by Maurice Berger.
The sense of the past
by James R. Mellow
A review of Henry James & Edith Wharton: Letters 1900-1915 edited by Lyall H. Powers.
Where’s that rainbow?
by Bruce Bawer
A review of Vineland by Thomas Pynchon.
History vs. ideology
by David Gress
On the 1989 meeting of the American Historical Association in San Francisco.
Notes & Comments
Doing the multicultural blues
by the Editors
On Multicultural Literacy, the Graywolf Annual No. 5.
A no-fault criticism for the Nineties?
by the Editors