Willem de Kooning at 90
by Hilton Kramer
On art criticism and exhibitions.
Features
Saving the Appearances: Roger Scruton on Philosophy
by Roger Kimball
Among our contemporaries, few have been more successful at maintaining a vigorous and productive balance between wonder and doubt than the English philosopher Roger Scruton.
Life sentences: the art of Joseph Conrad
by Joseph Epstein
On Joseph Conrad’s achievements.
The best & the worst of Louise Bourgeois
by Karen Wilkin
On “Louise Bourgeois: The Locus of Memory” at the Brooklyn Museum.
Four early poems of W. H. Auden
by Roger Kimball
With an introduction by Roger Kimball.
Poems
Art
After Judd: notes at season’s end
by Jed Perl
On David Salle, Philip Taaffe, Bill Jensen & Donald Judd.
Exhibition note
by Eric Gibson
On “American Impressionism & Realism” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Exhibition note
by Roger Kimball
On “Treasures in Heaven: Armenian Illuminated Manuscripts” at the Pierpont Morgan Library.
Theater
Angry women & furious machines
by Donald Lyons
On recent British imports, a revival of Picnic & new plays by Arthur Miller & Edward Albee.
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The media
Nixon & Middlemarch: new versions for the 90s
by James Bowman
On Nixon’s career.
Fiction chronicle
Cheever County, 1994
by Brooke Allen
On new novels by Benjamin Cheever, Nicholson Baker, Douglas Hobbie & Rick Moody.
Books
Women beware women
by Heather Mac Donald
The abyss stares back
by Terry Teachout
A review of On Looking into the Abyss by Gertrude Himmelfarb.
She likes a Gershwin tune
by Mark Steyn
A review of Hole in Our Soul by Martha Bayles.
Hunter of forms
by Robert Richman
A review of The Door in the Wall by Charles Tomlinson.
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Notebook
William Arrowsmith: a recollection
by James Tuttleton
On Arrowsmith’s life and work.
Life stories
by Thomas Mallon
A review of Keepers of the Flame by Ian Hamilton.
Notes & Comments
Clement Greenberg, 1909-1994
by The Editors
Farewell, Amadeus
by The Editors