Copland’s world
by Samuel Lipman
On music during the war.
Features
Margaret Mitchell in the Soviet Union
by Boris Paramonov
Translated from Russian by Jane Bobko.
Cézanne’s watercolors
by Sidney Geist
On Cézanne’s oil paintings and watercolors.
Civilization and its malcontents: responses to “Typee”
by Peter Shaw
On Herman Melville’s fictionalized memoir of the cannibal islanders of the Marquesas.
Poems
Art
The minimal and the magical
by Eric Gibson
On the work of Joel Shapiro and Romare Bearden.
A forgotten Golden Age
by E. V. Thaw
On “Danish Painting: The Golden Age” at the National Gallery, London.
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Theater
Making Whoopi
by Mimi Kramer
On Whoopi Goldberg’s self-titled Broadway performance.
Books
Notebook
On collecting
by Jed Perl
On collectors and collecting.
Steinway on the block
by Samuel Lipman
On the Steinway pianos.
Who’s afraid of Tom Wolfe?
by Robert Richman
On Tom Wolfe and the Whitney Museum.