Thinking about “Witness”
by Hilton Kramer
On Whittaker Chambers’s Witness.
Features
“Voices and Visions” on PBS
by Bruce Bawer
On Voices and Visions: The Poet in America.
Sartre and “Les Tempes Modernes”
by David Gress
On ideology and intellectuals.
The Flagstad legend
by Samuel Lipman
On the Norwegian soprano Kirsten Flagstad.
The anguishes of E.M. Cioran
by Roger Kimball
On Emile M. Cioran.
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Architecture
Frank Gehry in vogue
by Diana Ketchum
On Frank Gehry and his architecture.
Art
What’s major? What’s minor?
by Jed Perl
On Neapolitan Crib figures, Alexander Calder & Hans Hoffmann.
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Dance
Showdance
by Eva Resnikova
On Danny Buraczeski’s Jazzdance company, the Ice Capades & a revival of Jerome Kern’s Sally.
Books
The men of 1914
by James Atlas
A review of Makers of the New: The Revolution in Literature, 1912-1939 by Julian Symons.
The critic as hero
by Bradley Bloch
H. E. Bates, storyteller
by Brock Baker
A review of A Month by the Lake & Other Stories by H. E. Bates.
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Notebook
The new café society
by Michael Brandow
On Nell’s & other nightspots favored by the young literati.