The sorrows of Kurt Schwitters
by Hilton Kramer
On Kurt Schwitters’s paintings and collages.
Features
From the journals of Thornton Wilder
by Donald Gallup
Selected & edited by Donald Gallup, with an introduction by Hilton Kramer.
Spanish still-life painting of the “Golden Age”
by James Gardner
On seventeenth-century Spanish artists.
Hemingway’s prelude to Paris
by Bruce Bawer
On Along with Youth: Hemingway, the Early Years by Peter Griffin.
A profound simplicity: the poetry of Andrew Young
by Leslie Norris
On Andrew Young’s poems.
Poems
Everything is possible to the cheerful hero
by Edward Case
1914
by Edward Case
A victory is won
by Edward Case
In a brand new Buick passing the reputed area of my grandfather’s grave
by Edward Case
Minor poet
by Edward Case
Rewriting childhood
by James Aitchison
Terse elegy for J. V. Cunningham
by X.J. Kennedy
Twelve dead, scores homeless
by X.J. Kennedy
Siesta at the Hotel Frattina
by Jane Kenyon
Familiar story
by Alan Shapiro
Cities & empires
by Dick Allen
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Art
The Twilight Zone
by Jed Perl
On “Representation Abroad” at the Hirshhorn.
Music
When the critic criticized
by Samuel Lipman
On The Music Monster by Charles Reid, a biography of James William Davison of the London Times.
Books
A vanishing metaphor
by Vernon Young
A review of On the Shores of the Mediterranean by Eric Newby.
Chilling observations
by Robert Richman
A review of The Lamplit Answer by Gjertrud Schnackenberg.
