Stuart Davis at the Met
by Hilton Kramer
On Stuart Davis at the Met.
Features
The Sobol report: multiculturalism triumphant
by Heather Mac Donald
On the Balkanization of education.
Il caso Lampedusa
by Christopher Carduff
On Shade Those Laurels by Cyril Connolly
The big top and beyond: Calder at the Whitney
by Karen Wilkin
On Calder at the Whitney.
Art
Amateurs & others
by Jed Perl
On Thrift Store Paintings & other shows.
A celebrated age
by Creighton Gilbert
On the National Gallery’s celebration of the Age of Exploration.
Theater
Othertimes, otherwheres
by Donald Lyons
On The Crucible & other plays.
Fiction chronicle
Big & bad
by Bruce Bawer
On Norman Mailer’s Harlot’s Ghost.
Books
Foucault’s gay science
by Richard Vine
Mr. Wu & Mrs. Stitch
by Brooke Allen
On the letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper.
War and pieces
by Julian Symons
A review of Mordecai Richler’s WWII anthology.
Shorter notice
by Lauren Weiner
On Carlos Fuentes’s “bad historical novel.”
Shorter notice
by Evelyn Toynton
On regarding the exuberant letters of H. L. Mencken.
Shorter notice
by Donald Lyons
A review of David Slavitt’s introduction to Virgil.
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Letters to the Editor
Letters
by the Editors
On Orwell, and Schjeldahl on Schjeldahl.
Notes & Comments
The NEA and arts education
by the Editors
Anything goes
by the Editors
On Anyone, the “multi-disciplinary & cross-cultural” journal edited by Cynthia Davidson