But if the artist fail?
by Samuel Lipman
On the failure of musical talent.
“Trying to preserve something”
by Robert Richman
A tribute to Philip Larkin.
Houses, fields, gardens, hills
by Jed Perl
On Catherine Murphy, Joan Snyder, Jennifer Bartlett & Esti Dunow.
Winter journey
by Mimi Kramer
On revivals of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest & Noël Coward’s Hay Fever.
The trouble with Robbins
by David Daniel
On Jerome Robbins’s In Memory of . . . & other works.
René Wellek: the theorist as historian
by James Tuttleton
A review of A History of Modern Criticism, Vol. 5 & Vol. 6.
Hopper’s scene
by James R. Mellow
A review of Hopper’s Places by Gail Levin.
Americans in Mexico
by Mark Falcoff
A review of The Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes.
Novels with politics
by David Pryce-Jones
A review of Atrocity & Amnesia: The Political Novel since 1945 by Robert Boyers.
The avant-garde comes to Hofstra
by Roger Kimball
On the symposium Avant-Garde Art & Literature: Toward a Reappraisal of Modernism.