Affirmative-action book prizes
On the political agenda of certain National Book Award jurors.
The auction disasters
On the collapse of the contemporary-art market.
Is your translation really necessary?
by D.S. Carne-Ross
On Homer in today's English.
Hip!? Hype!? Hooray!?
by Jed Perl
On Georg Baselitz, Carol Dunham & McDermott & McGough.
Circles
by Donald Lyons
On recent adaptations of Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle.
Whiling away the hours
by Dana Mack
On the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Music for a While series.
Portrait of a generation
by Norman Podhoretz
A review of Our Age by Noel Annan.
Weimar’s absent father
by Harold James
A review of Reminiscences & Reflections: A Youth in Germany by Golo Mann.
Mr. Burnshaw himself
by Robert Richman
A review of A Stanley Burnshaw Reader.
Who killed literature?
by D.G. Myers
A review of The Death of Literature by Alvin Kernan.
Shorter notice
by Lauren Weiner
Of A Chainless Soul: A Life of Emily Brontë by Katherine Frank.
Shorter notice
by Roger Kimball
Of Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America by Lucy R. Lippard.
Shorter notice
by Bruce Bawer
Of Continual Lessons: The Journals of Glenway Wescott 1937-1955 edited by Robert Phelps & Jerry Rosco.
Shorter notice
by Donald Lyons
Of After Bakhtin: Essays on Fiction & Criticism by David Lodge.