Painting at Fenway Court
by Mary Crawford Volk
On the Isabella Stewart Gardner collection.
A family of ghosts
by Frederick Brown
On the letters of the de Montbourg family.
Getting on the record
by Samuel Lipman
A look at the history of classical recordings and the producers behind them.
The “Little house” at the Metropolitan
by William H. Jordy
On the Francis W. Little house of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Sargent’s Edwardians
by Dan Hofstadter
A review of John Singer Sargent by Carter Ratcliff.
Grub Street to revolution
by Robert Nisbet
A review of The Literary Underground of the Old Regime by Robert Darnton.
Worst possible ordeal
by Vernon Young
A review of The Life of John Berryman by John Haffenden.
A marginal “life”
by Hilton Kramer
A review of A Margin of Hope by Irving Howe.
Going east
by Joshua Gilder
On The Joke by Milan Kundera & other novels.