Only the life of the mind
On the end of the required core curriculum at the University of Chicago
Below the fold
On fatuous stories in The New York Times
Liberals & totalitarianism
by Robert Conquest
The sixth in a series titled “The betrayal of liberalism
Jackson Pollock & the New York School, II
by Hilton Kramer
The second part of an examination of the artist’s place in the modernist tradition
The magic of contradictions: Willa Cather's lost lady
by Morris Dickstein
A reconsideration of A Lost Lady
The art of the Baule people
by Karen Wilkin
Review of Baule: African Art/Western Eyes, at The Museum for African Art, New York
Coarseness & crudeness & correctness
by John Gross
On the coarsening of British culture
Sad, perfunctory, mechanical
by Mark Steyn
Review of The Blue Room & other plays
Five painters
by Mario Naves
Reviews of Common Man, Mythic Vision: The Paintings of Ben Shahn at the Jewish Museum in New York & recent exhibitions
of Jacob Lawrence, Lester Johnson, Brice Marden & Nell Blaine
Meaningless enchainments
by Laura Jacobs
On William Forsythe, Twyla Tharp & the excesses of contemporary dance criticism
History Potomac style
by James Bowman
Spinning history on behalf of the President
A sad & angry summa
by Eric Ormsby
The Triumph of Love by Geoffrey Hill
Commonsense aesthete
by Brooke Allen
Review of Aubrey Beardsley: A Biography by Matthew Sturgis
The grand narrative
by James Bowman
Review of From Plato to NATO by David Gress
The wheel turns
by Daniel Mahoney
Review of November 1916: The Red Wheel/Knot II by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts
Book notes
by Christopher Carduff
Reviews of The Three Horsemen of the New Apocalypse by Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Friends Talking in the Night: Sixty Years of Writing for The New Yorker; by Philip Hamburger & Cyril Connolly: A Life by Jeremy Lewis