Mary McCarthy & company
by Hilton Kramer
On Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy & Her World by Carol Brightman.
An American in Paris
by Jed Perl
On Ellsworth Kelly: The Years in France, 1948-1954 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Exhibition note
by Karen Wilkin
On Masterworks from the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Exhibition note
by Eric Gibson
On Kandinsky & the American Avant-Garde, 1912-1950 at the Dayton Art Institute.
Exhibition note
by Roger Kimball
On Egypt's Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III & His World" at the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth.
Doing it wrong
by Donald Lyons
On the National Actors Theatre production of The Seagull & other plays.
You don't say
by Terry Teachout
On Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities five years later.
Flights of the enchanter
by Jenny Teichman
On Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals by Iris Murdoch.
He said, she said
by John Simon
A review of The New York Public Library Book of 20th-Century American Quotations & The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 4th Edition.
Scrappy days
by Thomas Mallon
A review of My Life as Author & Editor by H.L. Mencken.