Possessing the golden key
by John Herington
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Whittaker Chambers: the judgment of history
by Hilton Kramer
On Whittaker Chambers: A Biography by Sam Tanenhaus
The importance of T. E. Hulme
by Roger Kimball
On The Collected Writings of T. E. Hulme edited by Karen Csengeri
John Crowe Ransom: Tennessee’s major minor poet
by Richard Tillinghast
On the poet & his work
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The silence in South Africa: writers chuck it in
by Sarah Ruden
On the state of literature in South Africa
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Theater
Adaptable properties
by Mark Steyn
On The Waste Land & Ragtime
Art
Picasso from “Les Demoiselles” to “Parade”
by Karen Wilkin
On A Life of Picasso. Volume II: 1907–1917, The Painter of Modern Life by John Richardson with Marilyn McCully
The media
Triangulating & mau-mauing
by James Bowman
On the Ebonics controversy
Books
How good was Auden?
by Jeffrey Hart
Franklin in Pennsylvania
by Richard Brookhiser
Review of Benjamin Franklin, Politician: The Mask & the Man by Francis Jennings
Rigorously equivocal
by Brooke Allen
A review of One of Us: The Mastery of Joseph Conrad by Geoffrey Galt Harpham.
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Notebook
Benign obscurity
by Donald Justice
On obscurity in poetry.
Notes & Comments
Academic whorehouses
by The Editors
On the National Alumni Forum’s report The Shakespeare File: What English Majors Are Really Studying
Annals of liberal prejudice
by The Editors
On Sara Rimer’s article in The New York Times on Dartmouth & The Dartmouth Review