An Orwell for the Nineties?
by Hilton Kramer
On literature and politics.
Features
New light on Corot
by Karen Wilkin
On Champa’s exhibition.
The career of James Baldwin
by Bruce Bawer
A review of Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin, by James Campbell
A very Sixties person: Peter Schjeldahl on art
by Roger Kimball
On art critics and art.
Hazlitt’s passions
by Joseph Epstein
On Hazlitt’s essays.
Crime and punishment
by Leszek Kolakowski
On justifications for punishment.
Poems
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Letters to the Editor
Art
Remaking Bearden
by Eric Gibson
On a retrospective of Romare Bearden’s works.
Books
A lot of Fussell about nothing
by James Bowman
A review of BAD, or, The Dumbing of America by Paul Fussell.
The humanists reassessed
by Paul Oskar Kristeller
A review of Defenders of the Text by Anthony Grafton.
A poet and particularist
by Tess Lewis
A review of On the Look-out by C. H. Sisson.
Shorter notice
by Donald Lyons
On John Bossy’s account of Giordano Bruno.
Shorter notice
by Bruce Bawer
On the journals of John Cheever.
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Notebook
Leland Bell, 1922-1991
by Jed Perl
On Leland Bell’s life.
Notes & Comments
The academic Left strikes back
by The Editors
Art and politics, “Klinghoffer”-style
by The Editors