Issues
Volume 12, Number 9 / May 1994
Notes & Comments
May 1994
Trilling vs. Trilling
May 1994
Helen Wolff, 1906–1994
Features
May 1994
Angry history: Richard Pipes on the Bolshevik Revolution
On writing about revolutions.
May 1994
When reason sleeps: the academy vs. science
On Higher Superstition by Paul R. Gross & Norman Levitt.
May 1994
One life, one art: Elizabeth Bishop in her letters
On the life Elizabeth Bishop lived.
May 1994
Citizen Jane Jacobs
On Mrs. Jacobs’s life and influence.
May 1994
Anna Akhmatova
On the stoicism of the Russian poet.
Poems
May 1994
The ferryman (after a tale of Dunsany)
May 1994
Lost owl
May 1994
Wounded life
Letter from Paris
May 1994
The barbarian within
On the French government’s attempts to stamp out “Franglais.”
Art
May 1994
Matthiasdottir in full color
On new still lifes & self-portraits by Louisa Matthiasdottir at Salander-O’Reilly.
May 1994
Exhibition note
On “Richard Avedon: Evidence, 1944–1994” at the Whitney.
May 1994
Exhibition note
On “Petrus Christus: Renaissance Master of Bruges” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
May 1994
Exhibition note
On “Joseph Stella” at the Whitney.
Theater
May 1994
Second chances
On revivals of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel & Odets’s The Flowering Peach.
The media
May 1994
Hand-wringing over Whitewater
On the press’s self-criticism over its coverage of the White House scandal.
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