Notes on early American modernism
by Hilton Kramer
On “Over Here: Modernism, the First Exile 1914-1919” at Brown University.
Features
Politics and art in the criticism of F. O. Matthiessen
by James Tuttleton
On F. O. Matthiessen and the Politics of Criticism by William H. Cain.
The good-natured pessimist
by Joseph Epstein
On Italo Svevo.
Are our museums adrift?
by James N. Wood
On the museum’s role and purpose.
The mild-mannered humanist
by Bruce Bawer
On The Pleasures of Reading by Robert Alter.
Poems
Music
The great music director hunt
by Samuel Lipman
On conductors and performances.
Art
Keeping the faith
by Jed Perl
On the talented & untrendy among today’s easel painters.
Refiguring the Guggenheim
by Karen Wilkin
On “Refigured Painting: The German Image 1960–1988.”
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Architecture
A Stirling performance at Cornell
by Roger Kimball
On James Stirling’s performing arts center at Cornell University.
Books
Yeats revisited
by C.H. Sisson
A review of The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Vol. I: The Poems edited by Richard J. Finneran.
Arriving where she started
by David Klinghoffer
A review of Horse-Trading & Ecstasy by Barbara Probst Solomon.
At the intersection of art and life
by Robert Richman
A review of Poetry & the World by Robert Pinsky & The Government of the Tongue by Seamus Heaney.
The drama of Madame Lebrun
by Deborah Solomon
A review of Memoirs by Madame Vigée Lebrun.
Notebook
Why I left graduate school
by Elizabeth Connell Fentress
On the imposition of ideals by the left.