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Volume 13
September 1994 – June 1995

Agee, William C.

Precisionism & the dawn of American modernism, on Precisionism in America at the Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey (ART), May, 42

Allen, Brooke

Stories fine & fatuous, a review of The Collected Stories by Grace Paley (BOOKS), Sept., 80;
“A real inferno”: the life of Christina Stead, on a new biography of Stead by Hazel Rowley, Oct., 23;
Painted into history, a review of Henry & Clara by Thomas Mallon (BOOKS), Nov., 78;
Stingless WASP, a review of The Collected Stories by Louis Auchincloss (BOOKS), Dec., 67;
Intimations of mortality, a review of The Afterlife by John Updike & All the Days & Nights by William Maxwell (BOOKS), Jan., 62;
The unlovable one, a review of Evelyn Waugh: A Biography by Selina Hastings (BOOKS), Mar., 60;
The real Ross, a review of Genius in Disguise: Harold Ross of “The New Yorker” by Thomas Kunkel (BOOKS), Apr., 55;
Anne Tyler in mid-course, on Ladder of Years & earlier novels, May, 27

Arkin, Marc M.

A key to Mrs. Eddy, a review of “With Bleeding Footsteps”: Mary Baker Eddy’s Path to Religious Leadership by Robert David Thomas (BOOKS), Sept., 71

Auchincloss, Louis

Old times down east, a review of Sarah Orne Jewett: Novels & Stories edited by Michael Davitt Bell & Sarah Orne Jewett: Her World & Her Work by Paula Blanchard (BOOKS), Sept., 76;
Iris Origo (NOTEBOOK), Jan., 76;
The Abbé & the great world, on the Paris diaries of the Abbé Mugnier (NOTEBOOK), Feb., 75

Barr-Sharrar, Beryl

Exhibition note on Greek Gold: Jewelry of the Classical World at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (ART), Jan., 44

Baumel, Judith

And Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David (Poem), Dec., 36

Benn, Gottfried

Sal der kreissenden Frauen (Poem), with facing translation, Labor room, by Teresa Iverson, May, 36;
Jena (Poem), with facing translation by Teresa Iverson, May, 38;
Ebereschen (Poem), with facing translation, Mountain ash, by Teresa Iverson, May, 40

Berry, J. Duncan

Shorter notice of The Architecture of Alienation by David Clarke (BOOKS), Oct., 78

Bowman, James

Finding “significance,” telling “The Story,” on the O. J. Simpson murder case & the Whitewater hearings (THE MEDIA), Sept., 65;
Nothing if not “cynical,” on what President Clinton calls the “fault-finding mentality” of the American press (THE MEDIA), Oct., 59;
The game as played in Burnsville, on Ken Burns’s PBS documentary Baseball (THE MEDIA), Nov., 53;
Graded on “The Bell Curve,” on the critics’ response to Charles Murray & Richard Herrnstein’s book on I.Q. & class structure in American life (THE MEDIA), Dec., 54;
The elections explained, on the media pundits’ various analyses of the Republican landside in the mid-term elections (THE MEDIA), Jan., 55;
A rose for Anna, a close reading of Anna Quindlen’s valedictory column in The New York Times (THE MEDIA), Feb., 58;
A conservative conspiracy?, on the recent criticisms of contemporary conservatism by Michael Lind (THE MEDIA), Mar., 48;
Shorter notice of The De-moralization of Society by Gertrude Himmelfarb (BOOKS), Mar., 79;
Getting our bearings on Barings, on the media’s insistence on reporting the story of the Barings bank scandal as a morality tale about class in Great Britain (THE MEDIA), Apr., 48;
Faking it, on the Oscar presentations & other moments of televised insincerity (THE MEDIA), May, 58;
Amerika revisited, on press coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing & other matters (THE MEDIA), June, 62

Brookhiser, Richard

Passionate Porcupine, a review of Peter Porcupine in America by William Cobbett (BOOKS), Sept., 85

Carduff, Christopher

Shorter notice of Watch with Me by Wendell Berry (BOOKS), Oct., 79;
Shorter notice of Liebling at “The New Yorker” edited by James Barbour & Fred Warner (BOOKS), Feb., 73

Carne-Ross, D. S.

Wording the pulse afresh, a review of Sappho: A Garland translated by Jim Powell & Andalusian Poems translated by Christopher Middleton & Leticia Garza-Falcón (BOOKS), Oct., 70

Clarke, John

Near-dweller (Poem), June, 38

Coleman, Alexander

Fantastic Argentine, a review of Selected Stories by Adolfo Bioy Casares (BOOKS), Oct., 65

Davenport, Guy

The comic muse, a review of The Oxford Book of Comic Verse edited by John Gross (BOOKS), Nov., 74

Dean, Paul

Kaleidoscopes of feeling, a review of The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry by T. S. Eliot (BOOKS), Oct., 75;
Shakespeare & company, a review of The Western Canon by Harold Bloom (BOOKS), Nov., 58;
Sons & husbands: D. H. Lawrence in love, on D. H. Lawrence: The Story of a Marriage by Brenda Maddox, Feb., 17;
Fighting for Herland: the sex wars of Gilbert & Gubar, on Sandra M. Gilbert & Susan Gubar’s No Man’s Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the 20th Century, Apr., 16;
The poem as prayer, a review of “This Book of Starres”: Learning to Read George Herbert by James Boyd White (BOOKS), May, 75

Epstein, Daniel Mark

The two William Blakes, Oct., 10;
Russian village suite (Poem), Mar., 29

Epstein, Joseph

Wise, foolish, enchanting Lady Mary, on the life & letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Jan., 8;
Sam Lipman at the NEA, a memoir, Mar., 15

Evarts, Prescott

The classical world (Poem), Nov., 34

Falcoff, Mark

Castroenteritis, a review of Mea Cuba by Guillermo Cabrera Infante (BOOKS), Jan., 72;
Greatest living Irishman, a review of Conor: A Biography of Conor Cruise O’Brien by Donald Harman Akenson & Conor Cruise O’Brien Anthology edited by Mr. Akenson (BOOKS), Mar., 73

Frum, David

The legacy of Russell Kirk, Dec., 10

Geist, Sidney

Debasing Brancusi, on Constantin Brancusi: Shifting the Bases of Art by Anna C. Chave, Sept., 37

Gibson, Eric

Exhibition note on Sense & Sensibility: Women Artists & Minimalism in the ’90s at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (ART), Sept., 56;
Exhibition note on Cy Twombly: A Retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (ART), Nov., 44

Gress, David

The wager of the West, a review of Conditions of Liberty by Ernest Gellner (BOOKS), Apr., 69

Gross, John

The nasty truth, a review of Marginal Comment by Kenneth Dover (BOOKS), Mar., 64

Gross, Paul R.

In Darwin’s footsteps, a review of Naturalist by E. O. Wilson (BOOKS), Jan., 67;
Against anti-science, a review of Einstein, History & Other Passions by Gerald Holton (BOOKS), June, 78

Haines, John

Star photo (Poem), Feb., 38;
Turning inward into poetry, a review of Postmodern American Poetry edited by Paul Hoover (BOOKS), June, 68

Hall, Donald

Resignations (Poem), Jan., 37;
The reasonable nap (Poem), Jan., 38;
Christmas party at the South Danbury Church (Poem), Jan., 39;
An old life (Poem), Jan., 40;
Green, red & white (Poem), Jan., 41;
Notes from India (Poem), Feb., 41

Harrison, Jeffrey

The lonely planet (Poem), Nov., 35

Helprin, Mark

Against the dehumanization of art (NOTEBOOK), Sept., 91

Iverson, Teresa

“From a confusion of shapes” (Poem), Nov., 32;
Introduction to “Three poems by Gottfried Benn,” May, 35.
See also Benn, Gottfried

Jacobs, Laura

Explicit acts, sleazy gestures: the Joffrey Ballet’s “Billboards” (DANCE), Sept., 62;
Smokeless “Cigarettes”: Pina Bausch at BAM, on Bausch’s Two Cigarettes in the Dark at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (DANCE), Jan., 52;
Promises, promises, on Bill T. Jones’s Still/Here at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (DANCE), Feb., 54;
ABT’s ebb & Twyla Tharp’s flow, on the American Ballet Theatre’s current season & other matters (DANCE), June, 52

Justice, Donald

Variations on Baudelaire’s “La Servante au grand coeur” (Poem), Dec., 34;
A man of 1792 (Poem), Apr., 31;
On an anniversary (Poem), June, 37

Kimball, Roger

Charles Reich & America’s cultural revolution, a reconsideration of The Greening of America on its 25th anniversary, Sept., 12;
What’s wrong with equality?, on In Defense of Elitism by William A. Henry, III, Oct., 4;
Exhibition note on The Thaw Collection: Master Drawings & New Acquisitions at the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York (ART), Oct., 51;
Philip Johnson: the architect as aesthete, Nov., 9;
Exhibition note on John Constable at the Frick Collection, New York (ART), Jan., 45;
(& Hilton Kramer) Farewell to the MLA, on the 110th annual convention of the Modern Language Association, in San Diego, California, December 1994, Feb., 5;
Exhibition note on Thomas Cole: Landscape into History at the Brooklyn Museum (ART), Feb., 47;
The grammar of “Dissent,” on Dissent magazine at age 40, Mar., 8;
Christopher Lasch vs. the elites, on Mr. Lasch’s book The Revolt of the Elites, Apr., 9;
Art vs. aestheticism: the case of Walter Pater, on a new biography of Pater by Denis Donoghue, May, 11;
What’s left of Descartes?, on a new biography of Descartes by Stephen Gaukroger, June, 8;
Exhibition note on Nature Vivante: The Still Lifes of John La Farge at the Jordan–Volpe Gallery, New York (ART), June, 49

Kistler, William

Music from an evening sphere (Poem), Dec., 37

Kramer, Hilton

Life after liberalism: “The New Republic” at 80, Sept., 4;
Exhibition note on Manny Farber: New Paintings at the Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York (ART), Oct., 53;
The ghost of V. L. Parrington, on a new biography of Parrington by H. Lark Hall, Nov., 4;
At the Warhol Museum, Dec., 6;
Samuel Lipman, 1934–1994, Jan., 5;
(& Roger Kimball) Farewell to the MLA, on the 110th annual convention of the Modern Language Association, in San Diego, California, December 1994, Feb., 5;
Kandinsky & the birth of abstraction, on Kandinsky: Compositions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Mar., 3;
Getting to know Pissarro, on Camille Pissarro: Impressionist Innovator at the Jewish Museum, New York, Apr., 5;
The Edmund Wilson centenary, on a new biography of Wilson by Jeffrey Meyers, May, 5;
The BBC & other losses, a letter from London, June, 4;
Exhibition note on Nadar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (ART), June, 50

Lazere, Donald

Civility & accuracy (Letter), June, 90

Logan, William

Lowell in the shadows, a review of Lost Puritan: A Life of Robert Lowell by Paul Mariani (BOOKS), Dec., 61;
Blues for Penelope (Poem), Feb., 40;
The other other Frost, June, 21

Lourie, Richard

The self-pitier (Poem), Oct., 46

Lyons, Donald

Shorter notice of Satire & Sentiment, 1660–1830 by Claude Rawson (BOOKS), Sept., 89;
Not worth the powder, a review of Witches & Jesuits: Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” by Garry Wills (BOOKS), Feb., 67;
The Sphinx of Athens, a review of the new Loeb Sophocles edited & translated by Hugh Lloyd-Jones (BOOKS), Mar., 68;
Shorter notice of A Dead Man in Deptford by Anthony Burgess (BOOKS), May, 79

Mallon, Thomas

Autumn epitaph, a review of Louis MacNeice by Jon Stallworthy (BOOKS), June, 81

Mansfield, Harvey C., Jr.

Friends & founders, a review of The Republic of Letters: The Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson & James Madison edited by John Morton Smith (BOOKS), May, 69

Morgan, Frederick

May night (Poem), Oct., 44;
September 1957 (Poem), Oct., 45

Morrone, Francis

This was New York?, a review of Scenes from the Life of a City by Eric Homberger (BOOKS), Dec., 70;
The yeoman’s tale, a review of Olmsted’s America by Lee Hall (BOOKS), June, 75

Naves, Mario

Exhibition note on Dalí: The Early Years at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (ART), Sept., 54;
Exhibition note on Mario Cavaglieri: The Glittering Years 1912–1922 at the Jewish Museum, New York (ART), Nov., 44;
Exhibition note on Jess: A Grand Collage, 1951–1993 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (ART), Dec., 47;
A Swiss Symbolist, on Ferdinand Hodler: Views & Visions at the National Academy of Design, New York (ART), Jan., 42;
Graphic artist, on Franz Kline: Black & White, 1950–1961 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (ART), Feb., 43;
Ambiguous Baziotes, on William Baziotes: 32 Years Later at the Blum Helman Gallery, New York (ART), Mar., 38;
Serious matter, on Tàpies at the Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York (ART), Apr., 35;
Exhibition note on Martin Puryear at the David McKee Gallery, New York (ART), May, 47;
Small wonder: the forgotten art of Giuseppe de Nittis, on Masterpieces of 19th-Century Italian Art at the National Academy of Design, New York (ART), June, 47

Notes & Comments

Loathsome performances, on art-world reaction to the Ron Athey–NEA flap, Sept., 1;
Nostalgie de la boue, on Woodstock ’94, Sept., 2;
Enter the Association of Literary Scholars & Critics, on a new organization founded as an alternative to the Modern Language Association, Oct., 1;
It’s all applesauce, on Ben Yagoda’s assertion, in the Sunday New York Times, that literary theory is dead on campus, Oct., 2;
Feminism embraces tribalism, on Katherine J. Mayberry’s essay White Feminists Who Study Black Writers in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov., 1;
Bennington College, R.I.P, on President Elizabeth Coleman’s radical cut-backs at the school, Nov., 3;
Professor Nussbaum on patriotism & moral goodness, on Martha C. Nussbaum’s essay Patriotism & Cosmopolitanism in the Boston Review & related matters, Dec., 1;
Downward with the “Times,” I, on Brent Staples’s attack on Leo Strauss on the editorial page of The New York Times, Jan., 1;
Downward with the “Times,” II, on the New York Times editorial In Praise of the Counterculture, Jan., 3;
Victims & critics, on Arlene Croce’s essay Discussing the Undiscussable in The New Yorker, Feb., 1;
Filthy is as filthy does, on Leon Wieseltier’s agreements & disagreements with the London Spectator, Feb., 4;
Pop goes Parnassus, on the world of contemporary poetry as viewed by The New York Times Magazine, Mar., 1;
Lucrum et veritas, on Lee Bass’s $20 million gift to Yale, earmarked for a survey course in Western civilization, & the university’s unwillingness to implement the course, Apr., 1;
Revising the revisionists on American Communism, on The Secret World of American Communism, the inaugural volume of the Annals of Communism series from Yale University Press, May, 1;
A further note on “Camp,” on librettist William T. Hoffman’s charge that straight critics who use the word “camp” as a pejorative are guilty of homophobia, May, 3;
The greatest show on earth?, on the current, “multicultural” edition of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (Lisa Schiffren), May, 3;
Peter Brooks’s complaint, on Mr. Brooks’s essay Frightened with False Fire: Misunderstandings of the Culture War in the TLS, June, 1

Ozick, Cynthia

Against modernity: the American Academy in the ’20s, on the American Academy of Arts & Letters under the direction of Charles Underwood Johnson, Sept., 19

Page, Tim

Webern after Webernism, on the posthumous reputation of Anton Webern (MUSIC), Apr., 38

Penrose, James F.

The legacy of Donald Francis Tovey, Nov., 16

Reeve, F. D.

The village graveyard (Poem), Sept., 49

Rice, William Craig

Baroque (Poem), Apr., 33

Richman, Robert

Shorter notice of The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou (BOOKS), Mar., 79;
Shorter notice of Quarterly Review of Literature 50th Anniversary Anthology edited by Theodore & Renée Weiss (BOOKS), May, 80

Rosenthal, Deborah

Redon: the subjective world, on Odilon Redon: Prince of Dreams, 1840–1916 at the Art Institute of Chicago (ART), Dec., 38

Rutenberg, Alan

Ironic spirits--& others, a review of The Norton Book of Ghost Stories edited by Brad Leithauser (BOOKS), Nov., 76;
Shorter notice of A Second Mencken Chrestomathy edited by Terry Teachout (BOOKS), Feb., 72;
The rebel George Eliot, a review of George Eliot: Voice of a Century by Frederick R. Karl (BOOKS), June, 72

Sartarelli, Stephen

The literary stakes, on the new “conservative” critics on the French literary scene (LETTER FROM PARIS), June, 43

Schiffren, Lisa

The greatest show on earth?, on the current, “multicultural” edition of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (NOTES & COMMENTS), May, 3

Schmertz, Mildred

Exhibition note on Rem Koolhaas & the Place of Public Architecture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (ART), Dec., 45

Shomer, Enid

Cadillac (Poem), Oct., 42

Silber, John

Obedience to the unenforceable, a commencement address (NOTEBOOK), June, 88

Silver, Daniel J.

Prodigiously human, a review of Balzac: A Life by Graham Robb (BOOKS), Dec., 75;
The return of Emile Zola, a review of Zola: A Life by Frederick Brown (BOOKS), May, 65

Simon, John

Shorter notice of Intimate Letters: Leos^h/-.6 ch/ Janác^h/-.7 ch/ek to Kamila Stösslová edited & translated by John Tyrrell (BOOKS), Sept., 88;
To see is to believe: the life & films of Jean Renoir, on Jean Renoir: Projections of Paradise by Ronald Bergan, Oct., 33;
Squaring the circle: Stéphane Mallarmé, on a new biography of Mallarmé by Gordon Millan & a new translation of the poetry by Henry Weinfield, Jan., 24;
Reply to Henry Weinfield (Letter), Apr., 79;
Dumbing down Debussy, on two new productions of Pelléas et Mélisande, one by Peter Sellars, the other by Jonathan Miller, May, 19

Sisson, C. H.

The Word in English, a review of William Tyndale by David Daniell (BOOKS), Feb., 69

Spires, Elizabeth

Life everlasting (Poem), June, 39

Starr, Roger

Exhibition note on This Path We Travel: Celebrations of Contemporary Native American Creativity at the National Museum of the American Indian, New York (ART), May, 48

Steyn, Mark

West End story, on the American presence in London theater (THEATER), Sept., 57;
A wilderness of mirrors, on several recent plays that reflect mainly the preoccupations of the New York theater world (THEATER), Oct., 54;
Boat show, on the Harold Prince revival of Show Boat & on A. R. Gurney’s A Cheever Evening (THEATER), Nov., 47;
It’s the theater that got small, on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard & the Broadway revival of The Glass Menagerie (THEATER), Dec., 48;
Two theaters, fat & thin, on the mega-musicals & one- & two-actor shows that now dominate Broadway (THEATER), Jan., 47;
Communism is dead; long live the King!, on Tony Kushner’s Slavs! & Christopher Walken’s Him (THEATER), Feb., 53;
Missing Mister Abbott, a tribute to George Abbott, 1887–1995 (THEATER), Mar., 42;
Royal treatments, on Ralph Fiennes in Hamlet & other matters (THEATER), Apr., 43;
Rolling backward, on Neil Simon’s off-Broadway debut & other matters (THEATER), May, 52;
Tony or bust!, on the Tony-nominations process & its warping effect on Broadway (THEATER), June, 56

Teachout, Terry

So terribly correct, a review of Dictatorship of Virtue by Richard Bernstein & Two Steps Ahead of the Thought Police by John Leo (BOOKS), Sept., 82;
Gentleman composer, a review of Skyscraper Lullaby: The Life & Music of John Alden Carpenter by Howard Pollack (BOOKS), Dec., 72;
Donald Francis Tovey (Letter), Feb., 80;
Harry, Teddy & Whit, a review of Harry & Teddy by Thomas Griffith (BOOKS), May, 72;
Shorter notice of Vice Versa: Bisexuality & the Eroticism of Everyday Life by Marjorie Garber (BOOKS), June, 86

Thaw, E. V.

Courtauld the collector, on Impressionism for England: Samuel Courtauld as Patron & Collector, an exhibition at the Courtauld Institute Galleries, London (NOTEBOOK), Apr., 74

Thomson, William

He went to Yale (Letter), Feb., 80

Tillinghast, Richard

Elizabeth Bowen: the house, the hotel & the child, Dec., 24;
The uneasy world of Somerville & Ross, Apr., 23;
McLeod House: poem ending in a line by Milton (Poem), June, 35

Tomlinson, Charles

For Noriko (Poem), Sept., 46;
Shorelines (Poem), Sept., 47;
A dithyrambic (Poem), Sept., 48;
Inspired by Martial, a review of Martial: Epigrams edited & translated by D. R. Shackleton Bailey (BOOKS), Nov., 63;
Olympia: in dispraise of ruins (Poem), Apr., 34

Tuttleton, James W.

F. Scott Fitzgerald & the magical glory, on recent biographies & critical studies of Fitzgerald, Nov., 24;
Margaret Fuller, the American Minerva, on recent biographies & critical studies of Fuller, Feb., 24;
Steinbeck remembered, on Jay Parini’s biography of John Steinbeck & the volume of Steinbeck’s early fiction in the Library of America, Mar., 22;
Absolute James, a review of The Father: A Life of Henry James, Sr. by Alfred Habegger (BOOKS), Apr., 65;
Shorter notice of “General Grant” by Matthew Arnold, with a Rejoinder by Mark Twain edited by John Y. Simon (BOOKS), June, 85

Waldron, Arthur

When peacekeepers fail, a review of On the Origins of War by Donald Kagan (BOOKS), Mar., 56

Weinfield, Henry

Henry Weinfield’s Mallarmé (Letter), Apr., 77

Weissmann, Gerald

Haunted by Science, a review of The Waterworks by E. L. Doctorow (BOOKS), Nov., 69;
The diligent Madame C., a review of Marie Curie: A Life by Susan Quinn (BOOKS), Mar., 75

Wilkin, Karen

Serendipity in Milan: “Drawing in Our Century,” on Il Disegno del Nostro Secolo at the Fondazione Antonio Mazzotta (ART), Sept., 50;
“Truth & Fantasy”: the small-scale inventions of Goya, on the exhibition of Goya sketches at the Art Institute of Chicago (ART), Oct., 47;
“Origins of Impressionism” at the Met (ART), Nov., 37;
Made in Italy, sold by the Guggenheim, on The Italian Metamorphosis, 1943–1968 at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, Dec., 17;
The “High Art” of Nicolas Poussin, on the Poussin retrospective at the Louvre, Jan., 18;
Exhibition note on Italian Renaissance Architecture: Brunelleschi, Sangallo, Michelangelo at the National Gallery, Washington, D.C. (ART), Feb., 45;
The naïve & the modern: Horace Pippin & Jacob Lawrence, on I Tell My Heart, the Pippin retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art & Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series at the Museum of Modern Art (ART), Mar., 33;
Master & critic, a review of Antonioni by William Arrowsmith (BOOKS), Apr., 59;
Exhibition note on Gustave Caillebotte: Urban Impressionist at the Art Institute of Chicago (ART), May, 50;
The “Pictographs” of Adolph Gottlieb, on the exhbition at the Brooklyn Museum, June, 15

Winegarten, Renee

A concept of liberty: Benjamin Constant, Feb., 30;
Yesterday’s tomorrow, a review of Paris au XXe siècle by Jules Verne (BOOKS), Apr., 62

Wolcott, James

Gass attack, a review of The Tunnel by William H. Gass (BOOKS), Feb., 63

Kimball, Roger

What's left of Descartes? (Features), June 1995, 8
On the complex legacy left to modernity by René Descartes.

Kramer, Hilton

The BBC & other losses (Features), June 1995, 4
On the reality of the culture war in Britain and America.

Logan, William

The other other Frost (Features), June 1995, 21

Naves, Mario

Small wonder; the forgotten art of Giuseppe de Nittis (Features), June 1995, 47
On “Masterpieces of Nineteenth-Century Italian Painting from the Gaetano Marzotto Collection” opened at the National Academy of Design, New York, on April 20, 1995, and remains on view through June 11.

Notes & Comments

Peter Brook's complaints (Notes & Comments), June 1995, 1

Sartarelli, Stephen

The literary stakes (Letter from Paris), June 1995, 43

Simon, John

Shorter Notice (Books), June 1995, 85

Teachout, Terry

Shorter Notice (Books), June 1995, 86
Marjorie Garber Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life. Simon & Schuster, 606 pages, $30

Tuttleton, James

Shorter Notice (Books), June 1995, 85

Wilkin, Karen

The "Pictographs of Adolph Gottlieb” (Features), June 1995, 15
On "The Pictographs of Adolph Gottlieb” opened at the Brooklyn Museum, New York, on April 21, 1995, and remains on view through August 26