Has success spoiled the art museum?
by Hilton Kramer
On the de-aestheticization of the museum.
Features
The culture of classical music today
by Samuel Lipman
On the increasing influence and decreasing quality of classical music.
The legacy of Friedrich Nietzsche
by Roger Kimball
On the world Nietzsche predicted and precipitated.
Simon Schama, Francis Parkman, and the writing of history
by James Tuttleton
On the difference between reconstructing history and constructing fiction.
Literary life in the 1990s
by Bruce Bawer
On writers and readers in an “Age of Sensitivity.”
Rimbaud, the anarchic demiurge
by John Simon
On the legacy of Arthur Rimbaud.
British intellectuals in the Thatcher era
by Frank Johnson
On culture and politics.
On the neglect of poetry in the United States
by Louis Simpson
On literature in modern times.
The importance of T. E. Lawrence
by David Fromkin
On the legacy of T. E. Lawrence.
Chamfort: an introduction
by Joseph Epstein
On Chamfort’s life.
A footnote for Housman
by Brad Leithauser
On Housman’s poetry.
Ad Reinhardt at MOMA
by Karen Wilkin
On Ad Reinhardt’s paintings.
Poems
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Theater
Euripides in Paris, Shakespeare in London
by Donald Lyons
On performing the classics.
Art
A tale of three cities
by Jed Perl
On The 1920s: Age of the Metropolis in Montreal.
Books
The art and faith of Gerard Manley Hopkins
by Christopher Ricks
On Hopkins’s two central choices of life.
Love letter to a language
by William Jay Smith
The voice of sanity
by Stanislaw Baranczak
A review of Open Letters: Selected Writings by Václav Havel.
Shorter notice
by Christopher Carduff
On Octavio Paz’s Nobel lecture.
Shorter notice
by Robert Richman
Of Peter Davison’s essays on poetry.
Notes & Comments
The counter-revolution abroad, the cultural revolution at home
by the Editors