The Age of the Avant-Garde by Hilton Kramer The "normal condition" of our culture has become one in which the ideology of the avant-garde wields a pervasive and…
Getting Out of Russia by Lev Navrozov The answers given at a refugee center in Europe by one of those who left Russia in October 1971.
Intellectuals at War by Norman Podhoretz "Just before reading Hilton Kramer's essay on the avant-garde (p. 37), I also happened to read the symposium on 'Art,…
Jewish Worship, by Abraham E. Millgram by Erich Isaac Of all the sacred books the Jews have produced, the siddur--which might be termed the Jewish book of common prayer--is…
My Name Is Asher Lev, by Chaim Potok by David Stern The protagonists of Chaim Potok's novels--"The Chosen," "The Promise," and now "My Name is Asher Lev"--follow a common career; in…
Only One Earth, by Barbara Ward and Rene Dubos by Roger Starr Since all those who currently write about man's setting describe it in the singular as The Environment, the social movement…
Psychopaths, by Alan Harrington by Richard Schickel Along with a lot of people I know, I've been observing an increase in the amount of apparently psychopathic behavior…
Reykjavik vs. Miami by Jack Richardson Strategy, the mode of human thought that seeks effects instead of causes, provided the real drama of the past summer.
Ten Versions of America, by Gerald B. Nelson; Democratic Humanism and American Literature, by Harold Kaplan; The Novel of Manner by Quentin Anderson Professors of American literature often seem to assume that the books they study afford not simply a means but a…
The Age of the Avant-Garde by Hilton Kramer The "normal condition" of our culture has become one in which the ideology of the avant-garde wields a pervasive and…
The Great School Legend, by Colin Greer; The Ecology of the Public Schools, by Leonard J. Fein by Diane Ravitch Education has traditionally been thought of as America's great cure-all.
The Quota Commission by Elliott Abrams A great deal of attention has been directed lately to the efforts of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare,…
Updike, Malamud, and the Fire This Time by Robert Alter Taking certain striking passages out of context from some recent American novels, one might conclude that white writers in this…
Why Some Children Don’t Speak by Sonya Rudikoff The pain of parents knows no end--the parents waiting for letters and telephone calls, the parents searching for itinerant children,…
