Over the line at Wesleyan
On a class in pornography at Wesleyan University

Incontinent moralism
On Susan Sontag and the war in Kosovo

The moral consequences of impatience
by John O'Sullivan
Being the tenth in a series titled The betrayal of liberalism

A major's minor: Ezra Pound's poetry
by Donald Lyons

Dawn Powell: the fruits of revival
by Lauren Weiner
On Dawn Powell's novels

Victimized Verlaine
by John Simon
On One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine, translated by Norman R. Shapiro

Where and what you are
by Robert McDowell

Ralph: a love story
by Donald Justice

New histories for old
by John Gross
On the ideological rewriting of history

Saying nothing, at great length
by Mark Steyn
On the Tony Awards

Goya in Philadelphia
by Karen Wilkin
Review of Goya: Another Look, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York

Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On To Conserve a Legacy, at the Studio Museum in Harlem

Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On Hans Hofmann, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Guggenheim in Bilbao
by Michael J. Lewis

Gestural politics
by James Bowman
Empty gestures abound

Vanity fair
by William Logan
Looking at On the Bus with Rosa Parks by Rita Dove, Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-1998 by Adrienne Rich, The Lost Land by Eavan Boland, Vita Nova by Louise Glück, Wooroloo by Frieda Hughes, A Kiss in Space by Mary Jo Salter & Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson