Abstraction at the Guggenheim
by Hilton Kramer
On abstract art.
Features
An update on the culture wars
by Roger Kimball
On modern music.
Adam Smith, the sensible philosopher
by David Frum
On the life of the influential political scientist.
No Greek & very little Latin: Classical verse in translation
by D. S. Carne-Ross
On The Oxford Book of Classical Verse in Translation, edited by Adrian Poole and Jeremy Maule.
Poems
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Letters from the World
Andreï Makine’s poetics of nostalgia
by Katherine Knorr
On Makine’s French novels.
Theater
Defects trumpeted as virtues
by Mark Steyn
On Jonathan Larson’s Rent.
Art
Paris as haven: “Explorations in the City of Light”
by Mario Naves
On American artists in Paris in the twentieth century.
Exhibition note
by Beryl Barr-Sharrar
On “Pergamon: The Telephos Frieze from the Great Altar” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Exhibition note
by Roger Kimball
On “Poussin: Works on Paper, Drawings from the Collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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The media
The press’s naïve cynicism
by James Bowman
On media.
Books
Stealing history
by Donald Kagan
On the relationship between ancient Greek civilization and, therefore, of the Western Civilization that sprang from it, and that of ancient Egypt.
Sound & fury
by Brooke Allen
Paterfamilias
by Harvey Mansfield
Testament & will
by X.J. Kennedy
Shorter notice
by J. Duncan Berry
On The Villas of Pliny from Antiquity to Posterity by Pierre de la Rufinière du Prey.
Shorter notice
by Ben Downing
On The Alphabetic Labyrinth: The Letters in History & Imagination by Johanna Drucker
Notebook
Tom: the making of ‘The Glass Menagerie’
by William Jay Smith
On Thomas Lanier Williams.
Gallumphing Back
by Guy Davenport
A review of Lewis Carroll: A Biography by Morton N. Cohen.
Notes & Comments
Steinerisms revisited
by the Editors
Marketing multiculturalism
by the Editors