Off the record
On the New York Times-manufactured scandal at the Archives of American Art
Strange conjunctions
On literary critic George Steiner receiving the Truman Capote Lifetime Achievement Award
Liberalism & the law
by Hadley Arkes
The fifth in a series titled The betrayal of liberalism
Jackson Pollock & the New York School
by Hilton Kramer
The first part of an examination of the artist's place in the modernist tradition
Josef Pieper: leisure and its discontents
by Roger Kimball
On the German philosopher & the meaning of leisure
Edward Said's "Orientalism" revisited
by Keith Windschuttle
On the writings of the literary critic & academic celebrity
Flat-footed Wolfe
by Mark Steyn
On The Town & other plays
Duchamp & Cornell
by Mario Naves
On Joseph Cornell/Marcel Duchamp in resonance, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Le nozze di Susanna
by David Mermelstein
Review of Le nozze di Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, at the Metropolitan Opera
Two at City Opera
by Alexander Coleman
Reviews of The Cunning Little Vixen & Of Mice and Men at the City Opera, New York
Exhibition note
by Karen Wilkin
On “Bob Thompson,” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Concert note
by James Penrose
On a performance of the Cuban pianist Juana Zayas, at Seton Hall University, New Jersey
An era without honor
by James Bowman
On lying, honor & the Clinton administration
Matisse: the genius as late bloomer
by Kenneth Wayne
Review of The Unknown Matisse A Life of Henri Matisse: The Early Years,
1869-1909 by Hilary Spurling
Honor & duty
by James Bowman
Review of A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
An unlikely prophet
by Marc Arkin
Review of Mary Baker Eddy by Gillian Gill
A hero for the truth
by Gerald Russello
Review of The Unbought Spirit: A John Jay Chapman Reader, edited by Richard Stone
Hasty reflections
by Paula Friedman
Personals, edited by Thomas Beller
Where's Raymond
by J. Duncan Berry
Le Philosophe et la mémoire du siècle: Tolérance, liberté et philosophie by Raymond Klibansky