On The Democratic Muse by Edward C. Banfield.
On The Assault on Truth by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson & In the Freud Archives by Janet Malcolm.
On the nature of essays and essayists.
On the structure and the meaning of James Merrill’s poetry.
On Italian, with facing translation, “For an album”, by Jonathan Galassi.
In Italian, with facing translation, ”Biological evolution . . .”, by Jonathan Galassi.
In Italian, with facing translation, “La vie en prose”, by Jonathan Galassi.
In Italian, with facing translation, “It doesn’t take a long time”, by Jonathan Galassi.
On Ivo Pogorelich’s musical approach.
On Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman & David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross.
On “Renaissance Painting in Manuscripts: Treasures from the British Library” at the Morgan Library.
A New York gallery round-up.
On the Greek government’s request that the Elgin Marbles be returned to Athens & other matters.
A response to “The MLA centennial follies” by Helen Vendler, with a reply by Hilton Kramer.