Notebook April 1983

Room on the podium?

On Zubin Mehta's performance in New York.

Features April 1983

“I am alone”: Le Corbusier, bathrooms, and airplanes

Features March 1983

Anselm Kiefer, Joseph Beuys & the ghosts of the Fatherland

On the rootedness of Kiefer’s landscapes and Beuys’s drawings in German history.

Features February 1983

The small, battered desk (The writer’s role: responses to Hortense Calisher’s “The Long, Shining Table”)

On East European literature.

Notebook February 1983

Among the philosophers

On the meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Baltimore.