… age, and deserved to win it the year before, when he first competed. Finished works of admirable quality dating from … who meant so much to him, he was one of those prodigies who come into the world with a full equipment for the course … from a desire to balance accounts between the two famous rivals. No thought could be further from my mind, nor will I …
Reporting
… many people. Women fanned themselves with exhibition materials. Cuban artists who now lived in Mexico and New York … For the first time in the history of the biennial, a comprehensive listing of ancillary exhibits had been … say what we want to say. And I,” he added brightly, “am a Communist militant. Have been for fourteen years.” He had …
Fiction
… a wheeled suitcase nipping at her heels, shoulder-slung briefcase heavy with the 8.5” × 11” excelsior of a vague … like someone looking into the face of a mortally wounded soldier and seeing only his acne. The instructor flipped on the … She thought of the birth but was not frightened. 116-126 By Maggie Shipstead …
… door rang out pretty regularly day and night, shaking the common wall between us but to celebrate other epiphanies; … that were supposed to blank out answers shouted from the audience? Dexter had been a founder of Consumer’s Union, a … a Rheingold. As I sipped the beer, I looked at the huge murals James Thurber had crayoned on the walls of the place. …
Criticism
… a slideshow of “ Last Photographs ,” a photo-essay forthcoming in this summer’s issue of VQR. The essay documents … Shaw said he could explain the initial reticence of soldiers and marines toward embedded journalists. “We don’t … Ben Shaw (left) talking with Ashley Gilbertson (right). Also pictured are (left to right) Andrea Bruce, a …
… springs from his recognition that he had, like Frenhofer, committed himself to an impossible ideal—what he called in a … flux. Cézanne’s conclusion is explicit in his watercolor studies of skulls. They represent mortality to him as to … in favor of the abstract whole. The chimney, like a tower, points like an arrow into the sky, but its base is curiously …