Is the symphony orchestra dead?
by Samuel Lipman
On the nature of the symphony orchestra.
Features
Talking heads: the novels of Saul Bellow
by Bruce Bawer
On Bellow’s novels.
The happy critic: Arthur Danto in “The Nation”
by Hilton Kramer
On Arthur Danto.
The academy debates the canon
by Roger Kimball
On “Literary Theory & the Curriculum”, a symposium at Yale.
Mondrian in theory and practice
by Kermit Champa
On Piet Mondrian’s legacy.
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Dance
Dutch treat
by Eva Resnikova
On Jiri Kylián’s Netherlands Dance Theater.
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Art
The shows must go on
by Jed Perl
On the Whitney Biennial of 1987 & other shows.
Letters from the World
Booksellers at play
by Martha Bayles
On the American Booksellers Association convention for 1987.
Books
Saving Rupert Brooke
by Gloria G. Fromm
A review of The Neo-Pagans: Rupert Brooke & the Ordeal of Youth by Paul Delany.
The collecting life
by Denys Sutton
Old, new, buried, blue
by Donna Rifkind
A review of Family Skeletons by Henrietta Garnett.
Notes & Comments
Black Mountain comes to Bard
by Robert Richman
On the symposium “Poetry” at Black Mountain College.