The long, shining table: writers in Eastern Europe
by Hortense Calisher
On Eastern European literature and conversations about its past and present.
Features
The legacy of Robert Lowell
by Donald Petersen
On Robert Lowell’s life and poetry.
Painting at Fenway Court
by Mary Crawford Volk
On the Isabella Stewart Gardner collection.
A family of ghosts
by Frederick Brown
On the letters of the de Montbourg family.
Metrical illiteracy
by Brad Leithauser
On American poetry.
Music
Getting on the record
by Samuel Lipman
A look at the history of classical recordings and the producers behind them.
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Architecture
The “Little house” at the Metropolitan
by William H. Jordy
On the Francis W. Little house of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Art
David Smith in Washington
by Hilton Kramer
On David Smith’s life and sculptures.
Books
Sargent’s Edwardians
by Dan Hofstadter
Grub Street to revolution
by Robert Nisbet
Worst possible ordeal
by Vernon Young
A review of “The Life of John Berryman”, by John Haffenden.
A marginal “life”
by Hilton Kramer
Fiction chronicle
Going east
by Joshua Gilder
On The Joke by Milan Kundera & other novels.
Notebook
Dwight Macdonald, 1906–1982
by Hilton Kramer
A remembrance of the journalist.