Knowledge or ghettoization?
On the Afro-American studies department at Harvard
Multiculturalism as campus orthodoxy
On the policy at UMass Amherst establishing “contributions to multiculturalism” as a measure of faculty performance
Knocking about the ruins
by John Gross
The fourth in a series on “The future of the European past,”
Corot in New York
by Roger Kimball
On Corot at the Metropolitan Museum of Art & other recent exhibitions of the artist’s work
Melville in the try-pots
by James Tuttleton
On Melville: A Biography by Laurie Robertson-Lorant & Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume I: 1819-1851 by Hershel Parker
Two early poems
by David Yezzi
T.S. Eliot's poems, with an introduction by David Yezzi
Two cheers for Andrew Lloyd Webber
by Mark Steyn
A defense of the composer & a review of Randy Newman's Faust
No fuss or muss: Ellsworth Kelly in the rotunda
by Mario Naves
On the retrospective of the artist's work at the Guggenheim Museum, New York
Milken on the beach in China
by Laura Jacobs
On Karol Armitage's The Predators' Ball: Hucksters of the Soul
A pretense of professionalism
by James Bowman
On the journalism industry & the turn against Clinton
Old guys
by William Logan
On recent books by Charles Simic, A. R. Ammons, Robert Hass, C. K. Williams, Joseph Brodsky & Anthony Hecht
Brownout in the City of Light
by Brooke Allen
Review of The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant
Precincts of elsewhere
by Peter Schwendener
Review of Dewey Defeats Truman by Thomas Mallon
Ant's eye views
by Paul Gross
Review of In Search of Nature by Edward O. Wilson
The end of the affair
by Erich Eichman
On the symposium at NYU on Alan Sokal & the Social Text hoax