Features May 1984
The novel in the academy: a paean to perplexity
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On American Fictions 1940-1980 by Frederick R. Karl.
On American Fictions 1940-1980 by Frederick R. Karl.
On ideas and creativity.
On Geoffrey Nunberg’s The Decline of Grammar in The Atlantic Monthly.
On Doris Monteux's life and her representation in the media.
On retrospectives for a Post-Impressionist painter.
On Excellence: Theory & Practice in the Humanities, a speech by Irving Howe at the New York Public Library.
On art institutions and exhibitions.
On the childhood musical experience of Wagner.
On Geoffrey Hill’s style and poetry.