Features December 1986
The fall of the idols
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On the cultural life of postwar France.
On the cultural life of postwar France.
On the work of Lawrence Buell & Sacvan Bercovitch.
On the flawed utopian dreams of a visionary author.
On Edward Larrabee Barnes’s New York buildings.
On the flawed genius and suspect politics of the American writer.
On the impossible abilities of Harry Houdini.
On art and art history.
On the public & private lives of the British writer.
On Congreve, the king of Victorians masquerading.
On Henry Moore's sculptures.