Professor Sokal's Transgression
On Alan Sokal’s hoax in Social Text & the responses to it by Andrew Ross & Stanley Fish
Picasso: portraits or masks?
by Hilton Kramer
On Picasso & Portraiture: Representation & Transformation at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
Will there always be an England?
by Roger Kimball
On the current cultural scene in London
La Rochefoucauld: maximum maximist
by Joseph Epstein
On Falsehood Disguised: Unmasking the Truth in La Rochefoucauld by Richard G. Hodgson
Freaks far-flung & local
by Mark Steyn
On Venus, Buried Child & other plays
Jan Steen in Washington
by Karen Wilkin
On Jan Steen: Painter & Storyteller at the National Gallery of Art, Washington
Glackens, Sloan & friends: the Ashcan artists' New York
by Mario Naves
At the New-York Historical Society
Blandness & objectivity
by James Bowman
On “fairness” & “objectivity” in the media
Gravel on the tongue
by William Logan
On recent books of poems by W. S. Merwin, Sharon Olds, Virginia Hamilton Adair, Mark Doty, Louise Glück & Seamus Heaney
Apologia pro Newman
by Paul Dean
Review of The Idea of a University by John Henry Newman, edited by Frank M. Turner
Krazy Kat culture
by Mark Steyn
Review of The Lively Arts: Gilbert Seldes & the Transformation of Cultural Criticism in the United States by Michael Kammen
Cadences of Aran
by Richard Tillinghast
Review of John Millington Synge: A Biography by David M. Kiely
Of caliphs & sultans
by Alain Silvera
Review of The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last Two Thousand Years by Bernard Lewis
Miss Rat & the artists
by David Yezzi
Review of Marianne Moore & the Visual Arts: Prismatic Color by Linda Leavell
Englishing the
by Donald Lyons
Review of Horace in English edited by D. S. Carne-Ross & Kenneth Haynes