Diana Trilling’s “Journey”
by Hilton Kramer
On Mrs. Trilling’s memoir The Beginning of the Journey.
Features
Sex in the twilight zone: Catharine MacKinnon’s crusade
by Roger Kimball
On Ms. MacKinnon’s book Only Words.
Balthus presents Balthus
by Jed Perl
On the Balthus retrospective in Lausanne.
Lampedusa’s “Letteratura inglese”: Further reflections on English literature
by Stephen Sartarelli
Translated by Stephen Sartarelli.
Poems
Storefront
by Donald Hall
Regret
by Donald Hall
Lost
by Donald Hall
Goodnight
by Donald Hall
Borders
by Donald Hall
Order
by Donald Hall
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New worlds & old
by Samuel Lipman
On three CDs of contemporary music from New World Records & a reissue of performances by tenor Jan Kiepura.
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Rebecca Horn at the Guggenheim
by Karen Wilkin
On Rebecca Horn’s work.
September 1957
by Frederick Morgan
Theater
At long last, Lulu
by Donald Lyons
On Frank Wedekind’s Lulu plays.
The media
The air is blue
by James Bowman
On television sex.
Books
Apologies for the ancients
by John Herington
A review of The Norton Book of Classical Literature edited by Bernard Knox.
The first “Immortelle”
by Maria Louise Ascher
A review of Marguerite Yourcenar: Inventing a Life by Josyane Savigneau.
Wunderkind
by David Klinghoffer
A review of Body & Soul by Frank Conroy.
Shorter notice
by John Simon
Of Susan Sontag’s Alice in Bed.
Shorter notice
by Lauren Weiner
Of Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale by Miranda Seymour.
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Notebook
Mesmer revisited: Bill Moyers & New Age healing
by Gerald Weissmann
On Bill Moyers’s ideas and experience.
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