Norman Mailer’s American dream
by Roger Kimball
The third in a series titled Reflections on a cultural revolution.
Features
“The Blacklist & the Cold War” revisited
by Hilton Kramer
A reprinting of Mr. Kramer’s 1976 article published in The New York Times
W. B. Yeats: “the labyrinth of another’s being”
by Richard Tillinghast
On W. B. Yeats: The Man & the Milieu by Keith Alldritt & W. B. Yeats: A Life. Volume I: The Apprentice Mage, 1865–1914, by R. F. Forster.
Complexity & contradiction: Virginia Woolf & George Eliot
by Brooke Allen
On the publication of Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee & George Eliot: A Life by Rosemary Ashton.
Poems
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Theater
Gruesome twosome
by Mark Steyn
On More Stately Mansions by Eugene O’Neill & Side Show by Henry Krieger & Bill Russell
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Art
Musée Degas
by Karen Wilkin
On “The Private Collection of Edgar Degas” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
A world without distinctions: Rauschenberg at the Guggenheim
by Mario Naves
Music
At City Opera: a warhorse & a dark horse
by Alexander Coleman
On the City Opera season & Dvorak’s day at St. George’s Church
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The media
Promises, promises
by James Bowman
On the Promise Keepers’ rally in Washington, D.C.
Verse chronicle
Betrayals of the tongue
by William Logan
On Canaan by Geoffrey Hill, The Errancy by Jorie Graham, The Poems of J. V. Cunningham edited by Timothy Steele, Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes & The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt
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Books
Vulgar Rortyism
by Susan Haack
Shakespeare’s one poem
by Paul Dean
Review of The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Edition edited by Stephen Greenblatt et al.
Reaping what is Soane
by J. Duncan Berry
Review of Sir John Soane: Enlightenment Thought & the Royal Academy Lectures by David Watkin
Notebook
The new museum: entertainment or political theater?
by Roger Kimball
On the symposium Reimagining Museums for New Art at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts
Notes & Comments
The NEA & the adversary culture
by The Editors
On Jane Alexander’s departure from the National Endowment for the Arts
SUNY’s carnival of perversity
by The Editors
On Revolting Behavior: The Challenges of Women’s Sexual Freedom & Subject to Desire: Refiguring the Body at SUNY New Paltz