Snowblind: Martin Heidegger & Hannah Arendt
by Berel Lang
On Hanna Arendt/Martin Heidegger by Elżbieta Ettinger.
Features
Kenneth Tynan: the unshy pornographer
by Joseph Epstein
On the life and work of the British critic.
Castle clown: Céline at Sigmaringen
by Jim Tuck
On the curious career of Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
The last critic? The importance of F.R. Leavis
by Paul Dean
On the contemporary relevance of the teacher and scholar.
Poems
Most popular
Theater
Relearning the old lessons
by Mark Steyn
On Holiday at Circle at the Square, Racing Demon at the Vivian Beuamont Theater, Bring in ‘Da Noise/Bring In ‘Da Funk at the Public Theater, and I Ain’t Yo‘ Uncle: The New Jack Revisionist Uncle Tom’s Cabin at the Hartford Stage.
Subscribe for access to every article and ten print issues.
The media
Groupthink TV
by James Bowman
On the persistent triviality of television.
Books
Losing faith
by Brooke Allen
On In the Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike.
The talk of the Salon
by Karen Wilkin
On Diderot on Art translated by John Goodman.
Whither Bynner?
by David Yezzi
On Who Is Witter Bynner? by James Kraft and The Selected Witter Bynner: Poems, Plays, Translations, Prose & Letters edited by James Kraft.
New York obbligato
by James F. Penrose
On Strong on Music: The New York Music Scene in the Days of George Templeton Strong by Vera Brodsky Lawrence.
The uses of the Devil
by James Tuttleton
On The Death of Satan: How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil by Andrew Delbanco.
Notes & Comments
Georgetown flunks English
by The Editors
Mainstreaming deviancy
by The Editors