What was the Congress for Cultural Freedom?
by Hilton Kramer
On culture and policy.
Features
The rites of editing: letters as sacred texts
by Gloria G. Fromm
On biographies, letter, and editing.
GarcÃa Lorca and his times
by Mark Falcoff
On Federico GarcÃa Lorca’s life and art.
The collapse of the center: the humanities at Williams
by Roger Kimball
On the symposium “Crisis in the Humanities?” at Williams College.
Letter from Paris
Open house at the Bastille
by Karen Wilkin
On the Paris art scene circa Summer 1989.
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Music
Vladimir Horowitz 1904-1989
by Samuel Lipman
On Vladimir Horowitz’s life and performances.
Art
The legend business
by Jed Perl
On Kenneth Noland at Salander-O’Reilly.
Books
The Nizan case
by Renee Winegarten
A review of Paul Nizan: Communist Novelist by Michael Scriven.
The idea man
by Bruce Bawer
A review of A History of the World in 10½ Chapters by Julian Barnes.
Gertrude & Juliana
by Deborah Solomon
A review of Rebels on Eighth Street: Juliana Force & the Whitney Museum of American Art by Avis Berman.
Notes & Comments
The NEA since Frohnmeyer
by The Editors
From the old New Journalism to the new Old Realism
by The Editors
On Tom Wolfe’s essay The Billion-Footed Beast in Harper’s Magazine.
The revolution devours its own
by The Editors
On leftist attacks on Susan Sontag.