Modernism and its enemies
by Hilton Kramer
On Fredric Jameson, Roger Starr, Daniel Bell et al.
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by Roger Kimball
On the congress of the worldwide organization of writers.
The Saatchi Collection, or, a generation comes into focus
by Sanford Schwartz
On the revelation of Art of Our Time—the catalogue of the collection of Charles and Doris Saatchi.
Poems
The barrel organ
by Daniel Mark Epstein
From “Homage to Mallarmé”.
Old times
by Daniel Mark Epstein
From “Homage to Mallarmé”.
Piano lessons: a memoir of the Thirties
by Donald Justice
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Hayter’s line & Golub’s message
by Jed Perl
On Stanley William Hayter and Leon Golub.
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Aunt Dan and Wally
by Mimi Kramer
On Wallace Shawn’s Aunt Dan & Lemon.
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A great Spanish pianist
by Samuel Lipman
On Ricardo Viñes.
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“A singular institution”
by Sonya Rudikoff
A review of Enlarging the Change by Robert Fitzgerald.
Access to the past
by Donna Rifkind
A review of Gentlemen in England by A. N. Wilson.