The struggles of Anthony Lewis
On the departure of Mr. Lewis from the New York Times.
Everybody's doing it
On Sara Jane Olson, née Kathleen Soliah, former member of the radical group known as the Symbionese Liberation Arm.
The cultural war on Western civilization
by Keith Windschuttle
The fifth in a series titled “The survival of culture.”
The strange case of D.S. Mirsky
by Hilton Kramer
On the writer, occasioned by the publication of D. S. Mirsky: A Russian-English Life, 1890-1939, by G. S. Smith.
Laurence Sterne
by Brooke Allen
On the author, upon the publication of Laurence Sterne: A Life by Ian Campbell Ross.
A trifle & a substantial
by Mark Steyn
On 45 Seconds from Broadway, by Neil Simon & [sic], by Melissa James Gibson.
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
Reviews of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger at the Met, Renée Fleming & Jean-Yves Thibaudet at Carnegie Hall, Ewa Podles & Garrick Ohlsson at Alice Tully Hall, Neeme Jarvi with the New York Philharmonic & the Met’s Arabella by Strauss
Their pretty little heads
by James Bowman
On women writing about politics.
Isaac Babel's genre of silence
by Gary Saul Morson
A review of The Complete Works of Isaac Babel
A lost lady
by Jeffrey Hart
A review of When Men Were the Only Models We Had by Carolyn G. Heilbrun.
All that glisters
by Paul Dean
A review of Philip Sidney: A Double Life by Alan Stewart.
The age of bad ideas
by John Derbyshire
A review of Life at the Bottom by Theodore Dalrymple.
At home abroad
by Roger Kimball
A review of Letters from England by Karel Capek.
Oscar: six acts at the Morgan
by John Simon
A review of Oscar Wilde: A Life in Six Acts at the Morgan Library.