Memo to our critics on the Left: a little more candor, please & a little less paranoia
On Peter Brooks & the Bass grant at Yale
Protecting a legacy
On Anne Applebaum's essay in “The future of the European past” series
The myths of ''The West''
On James W. Tuttleton's review of the PBS series
A dearth of feeling
by Anne Applebaum
The second in a series on “The future of the European past,”
The Sixties according to Paul Berman
by Roger Kimball
On A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968 by Paul Berman
Pride & shame: the winning of the West
by James Tuttleton
On the PBS series The West directed by Stephen Ives
The mimetic brilliance of Angus Wilson
by Brooke Allen
On a new biography of Wilson by Margaret Drabble
Beckett & the Broadway playwright
by Mark Steyn
On Eugene O'Neill's Hughie, a Beckett festival & other plays
The trouble with Renoir
by Karen Wilkin
On an exhibition of the artist's work at the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
Menzel, Meier-Graefe & the problem of German art
by Hilton Kramer
On Adolph Menzel 1815-1905: Between Romanticism & Impressionism at the National Gallery of Art, Washington
The postmodern presidential race
by James Bowman
On the political conventions
The millennium mill
by Marc Arkin
On Omens of the Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams & Resurrection by Harold Bloom
''Well up on the far out''
by Guy Davenport
On Travels & Other Writings by William Bartram & The Natures of John & William Bartram by Thomas P. Slaughter
An American Petronius?
by Louis Galdieri
Review of Satyrica translated by R. Bracht
Satirist as Sisyphus
by Sanford Pinsker
Review of The Diaries of Dawn Powell, 1931-1965 edited by Tim Page
The second English epic
by Donald Lyons
Review of Alexander Pope's translation of The Iliad edited by Steven Shankman
Shorter notice
by Robert Richman
Review of The Master Letters by Lucie Brock-Broido
Shorter notice
by David Yezzi
On Aleksandr Blok: A Life, by Nina Berberova
Freshman writing & ideological texts
by Mona Scheuermann
On ideology in freshman composition classes