Virtue gone mad
by Roger Kimball
Being the first in a series titled Reflections on a Cultural Revolution.
Features
Abstraction & utopia
by Hilton Kramer
On the De Stijl art movement.
Canada: awash in hyphenation
by Mark Steyn
On the Canada Day festivities & recent trends in Canadian culture
The consecration of the heart: Ronald Knox
by Paul Dean
Poems
Introduction to Two poems by Charles Baudelaire
by Louis Simpson
Correspondences
by Louis Simpson
Charles Baudelaire’s poem, translated by Louis Simpson
The Swan
by Louis Simpson
Charles Baudelaire’s poem, translated by Louis Simpson
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Art
David Smith at Storm King
by Karen Wilkin
On the first installment of The Fields of David Smith at the Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York
Masterpieces & mishmash: “Objects of Desire” at MOMA
by Mario Naves
On the exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
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Music
The Virgilian agenda
by Alexander Coleman
A consideration of the composer on the publication of Virgil Thomson: Composer on the Aisle by Anthony Tommasini
Concert note
by David Mermelstein
On Palestrina by Hans Pfitzner, in a production by the Royal Opera at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York
The media
Books
Faulkner & modernism
by James Tuttleton
A review of William Faulkner: The Making of a Modernist by Daniel J. Singal.
Two of the Eight
by Michael J. Lewis
Review of Revolutionaries of Realism: The Letters of John Sloan & Robert Henri edited by Bennard B. Perlman
Period ironies
by Brooke Allen
Review of Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
Monsieur Moi-même,
by Daniel Silver
Review of Stendhal by Jonathan Keates
Shorter notice
by Ben Downing
On The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography by A. J. A. Symons
Shorter notice
by Daniel Kunitz
Review of Meter in English: A Critical Engagement edited by David Baker
Notes & Comments
A Rich harvest of muddle
by The Editors
On Adrienne Rich’s refusal of the National Medal for the Arts
America’s cultural revolution
by The Editors
Marking the beginning of the series Reflections on a cultural revolution by Roger Kimball