Is it all right to read Somerset Maugham?
by Joseph Epstein
On Somerset Maugham’s own character and novels.
Features
Memory & responsibility: Claude Lanzmann’s “Shoah”
by Ewa Kuryluk
On Claude Lanzmann’s film Shoah.
Remembering “Parsifal”
by Samuel Lipman
On Richard Wagner’s opera Parsifal.
Poems
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Photography
Academic Surrealism
by Jed Perl
On “L’Amour fou: Photography & Surrealism” at the Corcoran Gallery.
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Architecture
Dartmouth’s Hood Museum
by Roger Kimball
On the nature of the Hood Museum.
Theater
And all their minds transfigured
by Mimi Kramer
On New York’s lack of a regular theater-going audience & other matters.
Art
Dim “horizons” at the Guggenheim
by Eric Gibson
On “New Horizons in American Art”.
Michelangelo and the Quattrocento
by James Gardner
On the dialogue between Michelangelo and his contemporaries.
Books
What is “humanism”?
by James Tuttleton
Degas laid bare
by Eugenia Parry Janis
A review of Degas: His Life, Times & Work by Roy McMullen.
Feminism and literature
by Carol Iannone
A review of The New Feminist Criticism: Essays on Women, Literature & Theory edited by Elaine Showalter.