Anti-Communism and the Sontag circle
by Hilton Kramer
On the Sontag circle.
Features
Killing moonlight: the Futurists in Venice
by W. S. Di Piero
On “Futurismo & Futurismi” at the Palazzo Grassi.
Becoming Elias Canetti
by Roger Kimball
On Canetti’s life and legacy.
Frits Lugt: a life in looking
by Creighton Gilbert
On Frits Lugt’s work.
Salinger’s arrested development
by Bruce Bawer
On Salinger and his writing.
Poems
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Art
The School of Paris revisited
by Jed Perl
On the art and beauty in Paris.
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Music
The pupils of Clara Schumann and the uses of tradition
by Samuel Lipman
On pupils of Clara Schumann and the art of piano playing.
Theater
Beyond method acting
by Mimi Kramer
On the Jonathan Miller Long Day’s Journey into Night & other matters.
Books
The obsessions of Marguerite Duras
by Fernanda Eberstadt
A review of The Malady of Death, The Lover & The War by Marguerite Duras.
Unlike everyone else
by Robert Richman
A review of Less Than One by Joseph Brodsky.
Searching for Dorothy Parker
by Donna Rifkind
A review of The Late Mrs. Dorothy Parker by Leslie Frewin.