Abolishing art at the Whitney
by Roger Kimball
On the Whitney Museum’s revealing symposium on gender.
Features
Rebecca West & the tragedy of Yugoslavia
by Richard Tillinghast
On life, history & tragedies.
The crisis in concert programming
by Samuel Lipman
On thematic programming and its implications.
William Dean Howells & the practice of criticism
by James Tuttleton
On William Dean Howells and his thoughts and notes.
Rude & real: Courbet in his letters
by Karen Wilkin
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Irreconcilable differences
by Jed Perl
A gallery round-up.
Revived & well
by Donald Lyons
On new productions of A Streetcar Named Desire & Guys and Dolls.
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Music
The charms of Darius Milhaud
by Samuel Lipman
On operas.
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The living & the dead
by Bruce Bawer
On The Living by Annie Dillard & Paradise News by David Lodge.
Books
The dynamics of destruction
by Jeffrey Meyers
A review of Ann Hulbert’s biography of Jean Stafford.
Diderot’s puzzles
by Renee Winegarten
Nasty & nice
by Brooke Allen
A review of Auberon Waugh’s autobiography.
Fuss & featherweights
by James Bowman
A review of Talents & Technicians by John W. Aldridge.
Shorter notice
by Terry Teachout
Of Robb Forman Dew’s Fortunate Lives.
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by Donald Lyons
Of Ancient Sun, Modern Light by Marianne McDonald.
Shorter notice
by Bruce Bawer
Of James Longenbach’s Wallace Stevens: The Plain Sense of Things.
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Sexual politics at MIT
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The NEA comes to the Metropolitan
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