The Edmund Wilson centenary
by Hilton Kramer
On a new biography of Wilson by Jeffrey Meyers.
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Art vs. aestheticism: the case of Walter Pater
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On a new biography of Pater by Denis Donoghue.
Dumbing down Debussy
by John Simon
On two new productions of Pelléas et Mélisande, one by Peter Sellars, the other by Jonathan Miller.
Anne Tyler in mid-course
by Brooke Allen
On Ladder of Years & earlier novels.
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Poems
Three poems by Gottfried Benn
by Teresa Iverson
Translated with an introduction by Teresa Iverson.
Sal der kreissenden Frauen / Labor room
by Teresa Iverson
By Gottfried Benn & translated from the German by Teresa Iverson.
Jena
by Teresa Iverson
By Gottfried Benn & translated from the German by Teresa Iverson.
Ebereschen / Mountain ash
by Teresa Iverson
By Gottfried Benn & translated from the German by Teresa Iverson.
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Precisionism & the dawn of American modernism
by William C. Agee
On “Precisionism in America” at the Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey.
Exhibition note
by Mario Naves
On Martin Puryear at the David McKee Gallery, New York.
Exhibition note
by Roger Starr
On This Path We Travel: Celebrations of Contemporary Native American Creativity at the National Museum of the American Indian, New York.
Exhibition note
by Karen Wilkin
On Gustave Caillebotte: Urban Impressionist at the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Theater
Rolling backward
by Mark Steyn
On Neil Simon’s off-Broadway debut & other matters.
The media
Faking it
by James Bowman
On the Oscar presentations & other moments of televised insincerity.
Books
The return of Emile Zola
by Daniel Silver
Friends & founders
by Harvey Mansfield
Harry, Teddy & Whit
by Terry Teachout
A review of Harry & Teddy by Thomas Griffith.
The poem as prayer
by Paul Dean
A review of “This Book of Starres”: Learning to Read George Herbert by James Boyd White.
Shorter notice
by Donald Lyons
Of A Dead Man in Deptford by Anthony Burgess.
Shorter notice
by Robert Richman
Of Quarterly Review of Literature 50th Anniversary Anthology edited by Theodore & Renée Weiss.
Notes & Comments
Revising the revisionists on American Communism
by The Editors
On The Secret World of American Communism, the inaugural volume of the Annals of Communism series from Yale University Press.
A further note on “Camp”
by The Editors
On librettist William T. Hoffman’s charge that straight critics who use the word “camp” as a pejorative are guilty of homophobia.
The greatest show on earth?
by The Editors
On the current, “multicultural” edition of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (Lisa Schiffren)