Modernism & its institutions
by Hilton Kramer
The second in a series titled “Lengthened shadows.”
The second in a series titled “Lengthened shadows.”
Adapted from the book Anti-Americanism, a translation of Jean-François Revel’s L’obsession anti-americaine: Son fonctionnement, ses causes, ses inconsequences published in September by Encounter Books (www.encounterbooks.com).
On Secret Germany: Stefan George and His Circle by Robert E. Norton.
On Cambodia after the Khmer Rouge.
On Trumbo at the Westside theater.
On Miracle in the Scrap Heap: The Sculpture of Richard Stankiewicz at AXA Gallery & Ellsworth Kelly: Red Green Blue— Paintings and Studies 1958-1965 at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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On the Summer Festival in Salzburg.
On the dishonesty of politicians.
A review of The Thurber Letters: The Wit, Wisdom, and Surprising Life of James Thurber, Harrison Kinney, editor & Thurber Country: A Collection of Pieces About Males and Females, Mainly of Our Own Species,by James Thurber.
A review of God’s secretaries, by Adam Nicolson.
A review of Elspeth Huxley: A Biography, by C. S. Nicholls.
A review of El Paraiso en la otra esquina, by Mario Vargas Llosa.
A review of Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left, by Alan M. Wald.
A review of Do I Owe You Something? A Memoir of the Literary Life, by Michael Mewshaw.
On the poetry of Posidippus of Pella.
Notes & Comments
O Canada?
by The Editors
On Paul Lewis in The Globe and Mail.
A bake sale in Texas
by The Editors
On “affirmative action” and the price of cookies at Southern Methodist Univ.