Escapees in paradise: literary life in San Francisco
by Stephen Schwartz
On San Francisco intellectuals.
Features
Italo Calvino, 1923-1985
by James Gardner
On Calvino’s fiction.
Paris possessed
by Dan Hofstadter
On the photographs of Eugène Atget.
Dave Smith’s “creative writing”
by Bruce Bawer
On Dave Smith’s poetry.
Geometry lessons
by Jed Perl
On “Contrasts of Form: Geometric Abstract Art 1910-1980” at MOMA.
Renoir in Boston
by Kermit Champa
On the current Renoir retrospective.
Making up Jean Rhys
by Gloria G. Fromm
On Jean Rhys’s life and fiction.
Poems
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Music
Eastward the course of (Western) music
by Samuel Lipman
On the NHK Orchestra of Japan in New York.
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Dance
The New Theatricality
by Jacqueline Coleman
On Trisha Brown & others.
Art
David Park and the figure
by Eric Gibson
On David Park’s approach to paintings.
Books
Letters between two masters
by Leon Edel
On Flaubert & Turgenev: A Friendship in Letters edited by Barbara Beaumont.
Hofmannsthal’s world
by René Wellek
A review of Hugo von Hofmannsthal & His Time by Hermann Broch.
Marxism and criticism
by Peter Shaw
A review of The Function of Criticism: From “The Spectator” to Post-Structuralism by Terry Eagleton.