O Canada?
On Paul Lewis's article in The Globe & Mail advocating the secession of America's “blue states.”
A bake sale in Texas
On the Young Conservatives of Texas at Southern Methodist University, and their sliding-scale bake sale.
Modernism & its institutions
by Hilton Kramer
The second in a series titled “Lengthened shadows.”
The anti-American obsession
by Jean-François Revel
Adapted from the book Anti-Americanism, a translation of Jean-François Revel’s L’obsession anti-americaine: Son fonctionnement, ses causes, ses inconsequences published in September by Encounter Books (www.encounterbooks.com).
The poet of the Reich
by John Simon
Occasioned by the publication of Secret Germany: Stefan George and His Circle, by Robert E. Norton.
History by other means
by Anthony Daniels
Reflections on how this peaceful country sowed the killing fields.
Trumbos play the big parade
by Mark Steyn
On Trumbo at the Westside theater.
Whither the psychodramas?
by James Panero
On “Miracle in the Scrap Heap: The Sculpture of Richard Stankiewicz” at the AXA gallery & “Ellsworth Kelly: Red Green Blue-”Paintings and Studies, 1958-1965” at the Whitney.
Salzburg chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On the Salzburg Summer Festival, the granddaddy of all music festivals.
The wages of spin
by James Bowman
Is lying a job?
His secret life
by Frank Buckley
A review of The Thurber Letters: The Wit, Wisdom, and Surprising Life of James Thurber, Harrison Kinney, editor & Thurber Country: A Collection of Pieces About Males and Females, Mainly of Our Own Species,by James Thurber.
The best Good Book
by Paul Dean
A review of God’s secretaries, by Adam Nicolson.
A return to BEA
by Brooke Allen
A review of Elspeth Huxley: A Biography, by C. S. Nicholls.
Two visions of paradise
by Renee Winegarten
A review of El Paraiso en la otra esquina, by Mario Vargas Llosa.
Literary leftovers
by Stephen Schwartz
A review of Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left, by Alan M. Wald.
Settling the score
by David Slavitt
A review of Do I Owe You Something? A Memoir of the Literary Life, by Michael Mewshaw.
The victory of Posidippus
by James Gardner
On the Milan papyrus.