Issues
Volume 16, Number 2 / October 1997
Notes & Comments
October 1997
From the archives of the academy
An excerpt from Balancing the Demand with the Delight: Preparing the English Professional at Cornell.
Features
October 1997
A gospel of emancipation
On the second in a series titled “Reflections on a cultural revolution.”
October 1997
Abstraction & utopia, II
On the politics of abstract art in De Stijl
October 1997
Rediscovering the “espírito” of Machado
On new editions of the books of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis.
October 1997
Women & politics: Madame de Tencin
On the French writer Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de Tencin.
October 1997
Louis Auchincloss at 80
On a consideration of the author upon publication of his book The Atonement & Other Stories.
Poems
October 1997
Ontological
October 1997
Espalier
October 1997
Nothing
October 1997
Couplets
Theater
October 1997
Summertime
On the summer theater season.
Art
October 1997
Cambodia comes to Washington
On “Sculpture of Angkor & Ancient Cambodia: Millennium of Glory” at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Dance
October 1997
Frederick Ashton’s England
On Secret Muses: The Life of Frederick Ashton by Julie Kavanagh.
The media
October 1997
Diana week
On the media flurry surrounding Princess Diana’s death.
Notebook
October 1997
Sviatoslav Richter, 1915-1997
A commemoration of the renowned pianist.
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