Reflections on Miró
by Hilton Kramer
On the Miró retrospective at MOMA.
Features
What is sacred? Ronald Dworkin and his answers
by Jenny Teichman
A review of Life’s Dominion by Mr. Dworkin.
Lying for the truth: Münzenberg and the Comintern
by Stephen Koch
On a grisly discovery
Ever so true: Willa Cather & T.G. Masaryk
by Dennis Halac
On correspondence between Willa Cather and T. G. Masaryk.
Art at the Quattrocento fashioned
by Creighton Gilbert
On the vogue for Piero della Francesca & other matters.
Poems
Art
Miracle at the Met
by Jed Perl
On the new 19th-century European paintings & sculpture galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Exhibition note
by Karen Wilkin
On “Baudelaire’s Voyages: The Poet & His Painters” at the Heckshire Museum.
Theater
Young & at sea
by Donald Lyons
On the Willow Cabin production of Eugene O’Neill’s S.S. Glencairn.
The media
Care TV
by James Bowman
On “compassion” and “caring” on television.
Books
The apostle of inversion
by H.J. Kaplan
A review of Genet by Edmund White.
Tough buttons
by Guy Davenport
A review of Gertrude Stein: A Stein Reader by Ulla E. Dydo.
Festival of smoke
by Jeremy Murray-Brown
A review of A Memoir by Leni Riefenstahl.
Mann & boy
by Clarence Brown
A review of Tintin in the New World: A Romance by Frederic Tuten.
Two types of austerity
by James F. Penrose
A review of Sibelius by Robert Layton and Stravinsky by Paul Griffiths.
Notebook
Wharton redux?
by James Tuttleton
On the Edith Wharton revival.
Letters to the Editor
Letters
by The Editors
Regarding arts funding and the First Amendment.
Notes & Comments
Speech or action?
by The Editors