Lincoln Kirstein
by Hilton Kramer
On one of the most remarkable figures in the cultural history of the modern era.
Features
Music as a vocation
by Samuel Lipman
On living for music.
Géricault in Paris
by Karen Wilkin
On the quintessential Romantic painter.
Columbia’s assault on the American novel
by Bruce Bawer
On ironies of history.
Borges: An Introduction
by Robert Mezey
On poetry.
Poems
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Architecture
Clipper-Class classicism: Robert Venturi’s London adventure
by Roger Kimball
On Venturi’s architecture.
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Theater
Smorgasbord
by Donald Lyons
On Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa & other plays.
Books
Connoisseur of madness, addict of suicide
by John Simon
Assbackwards
by James Bowman
A review of Time’s Arrow by Martin Amis.
Natives of the James family
by Donna Rifkind
A review of The Jameses by R.W.B. Lewis.
Letters to the Editor
Letters
by The Editors
Regarding Oscar Wilde and Peter Schjeldahl.
Notes & Comments
Oh, happy day
by The Editors
Louis Menand. Photo: Stephanie Mitchell, Harvard Staff Photographer.
The PC line on censorship
by The Editors