Professor Howe’s prescriptions
by Hilton Kramer
On Excellence: Theory & Practice in the Humanities, a speech by Irving Howe at the New York Public Library.
Broadway goes to school
by Mimi Kramer
On Shirley Lauro’s Open Admissions.
A toga for Washington
by Fred Baumann
A review of Cincinnatus: George Washington & the Enlightenment by Garry Wills.
Acts of reverence
by Bruce Bawer
A review of The Collected Prose of Elizabeth Bishop, edited by Robert Giroux.