Angry history: Richard Pipes on the Bolshevik Revolution
by Hilton Kramer
On writing about revolutions.
Features
When reason sleeps: the academy vs. science
by Roger Kimball
On Higher Superstition by Paul R. Gross & Norman Levitt.
One life, one art: Elizabeth Bishop in her letters
by Elizabeth Spires
On the life Elizabeth Bishop lived.
Citizen Jane Jacobs
by Francis Morrone
On Mrs. Jacobs’s life and influence.
Anna Akhmatova
by John Simon
On the stoicism of the Russian poet.
Poems
Letters from the World
The barbarian within
by Stephen Sartarelli
On the French government’s attempts to stamp out “Franglais.”
Art
Matthiasdottir in full color
by Jed Perl
On new still lifes & self-portraits by Louisa Matthiasdottir at Salander-O’Reilly.
Exhibition note
by Eric Gibson
On “Richard Avedon: Evidence, 1944–1994” at the Whitney.
Exhibition note
by Roger Kimball
On “Petrus Christus: Renaissance Master of Bruges” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Exhibition note
by Hilton Kramer
On “Joseph Stella” at the Whitney.
Theater
Second chances
by Donald Lyons
On revivals of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel & Odets’s The Flowering Peach.
The media
Hand-wringing over Whitewater
by James Bowman
On the press’s self-criticism over its coverage of the White House scandal.
Books
The professor & the poetess
by Brooke Allen
A review of The Russian Girl by Kingsley Amis.
Flaubert’s muse
by Renee Winegarten
A review of Rage & Fire: A Life of Louise Colet by Francine du Plessix Gray.
Notes & Comments
“Viewer discretion is advised”
by the Editors
Trilling vs. Trilling
by the Editors
Helen Wolff, 1906–1994
by the Editors