Modern art at the National Gallery
by Hilton Kramer
On 20th-Century Art: Selections for the Tenth Anniversary of the East Building at the National Gallery in Washington.
Features
The “Collected” Philip Larkin
by Robert Richman
On Philip Larkin‘s poetry.
Erich Kahler and “the predicament of our age”
by Joseph Frank
A review of The Tower and the Abyss: An Inquiry into the Transformation of the Individual by Erich Kahler.
Zola and the Commune
by Frederick Brown
On Emile Zola and Paris life.
Revolution by search committee
by Richard Abowitz
On June Jordan’s appointment to the English faculty of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Poems
Music
Karajan: the last time?
by Samuel Lipman
On music and orchestras.
Art
Sienese storytellers
by Creighton Gilbert
On “Painting in Renaissance Siena, 1420–1500” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Donald Judd: the end of sculpture
by Eric Gibson
On Judd’s work.
Letters from the World
They do it their way
by Jed Perl
On the “Englishness” of English art.
Dance
Black and blue on Broadway
by Eva Resnikova
On the tap-dance revue Black & Blue.
Books
Doubles and more doubles
by Bruce Bawer
A review of Moon Palace by Paul Auster & Latecomers by Anita Brookner.
What’s the use?
by Bradley Bloch
Israelis and discontents
by Lauren Weiner
A review of Five Seasons by A. B. Yehoshua.