Letters to the Editor
Features
Reproductions for the plebes: the Banfield proposal
by Hilton Kramer
On The Democratic Muse by Edward C. Banfield.
The Freudian way of knowledge
by Frederick Crews
On The Assault on Truth by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson & In the Freud Archives by Janet Malcolm.
Writing essays
by Joseph Epstein
On the nature of essays and essayists.
A summoning of spirits: James Merrill and “Sandover”
by Bruce Bawer
On the structure and the meaning of James Merrill’s poetry.
Poems
In the north
by James Aitchison
A visit
by James Aitchison
Per album
by Eugenio Montale
On Italian, with facing translation, “For an album”, by Jonathan Galassi.
L’evoluzione biologica . . .
by Eugenio Montale
In Italian, with facing translation, ”Biological evolution . . .”, by Jonathan Galassi.
La vita in prosa
by Eugenio Montale
In Italian, with facing translation, “La vie en prose”, by Jonathan Galassi.
Non occorrono tempi lunghi
by Eugenio Montale
In Italian, with facing translation, “It doesn’t take a long time”, by Jonathan Galassi.
Coming home late with the bad young man
by David Wagoner
On motel walls
by David Wagoner
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Music
The case of Ivo Pogorelich
by Samuel Lipman
On Ivo Pogorelich’s musical approach.
Theater
The greatest salesman of them all
by Mimi Kramer
On Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman & David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross.
Art
The art inside the book
by Creighton Gilbert
On “Renaissance Painting in Manuscripts: Treasures from the British Library” at the Morgan Library.
Spring exhibitions
by Eric Gibson
A New York gallery round-up.
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Letters from the World
Greeks invade Bloomsbury
by Herb Greer
On the Greek government’s request that the Elgin Marbles be returned to Athens & other matters.
Books
Sailing toward Poland
by Vernon Young
Dostoevsky’s carnival
by René Wellek
Name-calling
by Hilton Kramer
A response to “The MLA centennial follies” by Helen Vendler, with a reply by Hilton Kramer.