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Fredric Jameson’s laments
by Roger Kimball
Said’s music
by Samuel Lipman
On Musical Elaborations by Edward Said.
Delacroix at the Met
by Karen Wilkin
The Luther of science?
by Bruce Bawer
On The Alchymist’s Journal & other works by Evan S. Connell.
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Art
Stuffed
by Jed Perl
On Mike Kelley at the Hirshhorn.
Fool’s gold: Sigmar Polke & the alchemy of critics
by Eric Gibson
Theater
A crown of withered parsley
by Donald Lyons
On Miss Saigon & other Broadway fare.
Books
Fundamentals of Soviet civilization
by Vasily Rudich
A review of Soviet Civilization: A Cultural History by Andrei Sinyavsky.
Hero
by James Bowman
The art of the deal
by Deborah Solomon
A review of Betty Parsons: Artist, Dealer, Collector by Lee Hall.
Shock of the Hughes
by Tim Hilton
A review of The Shock of the New & Nothing if Not Critical by Robert Hughes.
Shorter notice
by Deborah Rosenthal
Of Mondrian: Flowers by David Shapiro.
Shorter notice
by James Tuttleton
Of The Man Who Was Mark Twain by Guy Cardwell.
Shorter notice
by Carter Wiseman
Of Classical Architecture by Robert Adam.
Notebook
Orphans of utopia
by Mark Falcoff
On the 16th International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association in Crystal City, Va.
Notes & Comments
“Culture under siege” the politics of the Whitney Biennial
by the Editors
PC comes to music
by the Editors
On Richard Taruskin’s New York Times article dismissing Prokofiev’s music as a product of Stalinism.