Elena Tsezarevna Chukovskaya
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
On the courageous "chief-of-staff" of Solzhenitsyn's samzidat network.
Clamities of art
by Roger Kimball
On the self-destruction wrought by the Dadaist tendencies of contemporary art.
Joy & terror: the poems of Josephine Jacobson
by Elizabeth Spires
On In the Crevice of Time: New and Collected Poems by Josephine Jacobsen.
Four poems by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
by Louis Simpson
Translated & with an introduction by Louis Simpson.
"Company" & company
by Mark Steyn
On Sondheim's Company at the Roundabout Theatre, Alice at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Claude Monet in Chicago
by Karen Wilkin
On "Claude Monet: 1840-1926" at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Black & white & read all over
by James Bowman
On the hyperbolic and hypocritical rhetoric of racial politics.
Demystifying Lincoln
by James Tuttleton
On Lincoln, by David Herbert Donald; Simon & Schuster, 714 pages, $35.
Davenport's pleiad
by John Herington
On Seven Greeks: Archilochos, Sappho, Alkman, Anakreon, Herakleitos, Diogenes, Herondas edited by Guy Davenport, New Directions, 241 pages, $16.95.
Algonquin to Zukofsky
by Francis Morrone
On The Encyclopedia of New York City edited by Kenneth T. Kackson, Yale University Press/The New York Historical Society, 1350 pages, $60.