Attitudes toward literary excellence
On James Atlas's farewell to serious literature & Pico Iyer's Tropical Classical
Outing the truth at the ''Times''
On The New York Times's slip on affirmative action
Experiments against reality
by Roger Kimball
Being the tenth in a series on The future of the European past
Robert Hughes's Amerika
by Michael J. Lewis
On Hughes's latest book & PBS television series, American Visions
Edward Gibbon & the Enlightenment
by Keith Windschuttle
On The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
The seriousness of Yvor Winters
by David Yezzi
On the poet-critic's life & work
Backbenchers & youthquakers
by Mordecai Richler
On the London scene
Airbrushed imperfections
by Mark Steyn
On Titanic, An American Daughter & other plays
Promising signs
by Mario Naves
On recent exhibitions by Oscar Bluemner, Richard Stankiewicz & others
Discovering Lovis Corinth
by Karen Wilkin
On the exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum
Exhibition note
by Roger Kimball
On The Human Form Divine: William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art
Exhibition note
by Hilton Kramer
Odd Nerdrum: Paintings at the Forum Gallery, New York
Master of decadence
by James Penrose
On Wagner's Ring at the Metropolitan Opera
Pictures from the "Newseum"
by James Bowman
On the opening of the Newseum in Arlington, Virginia
Hardscrabble country
by William Logan
On recent books by Charles Wright, Michael Lind, Mary Oliver, Robert Bly, Les Murray & Edgar Bowers
The Gospel of Norman
by Brooke Allen
The Gospel According to the Son by Norman Mailer
An expert noticer
by James Tuttleton
Review of The Actual by Saul Bellow
From ancient grudge
by Arthur Waldron
On The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War edited by Robert B. Strassler
North by northeast
by Peter Schwendener
Review of The Friends of Freeland by Brad Leithauser