Phil Patton
Myth and the Everyday
"I THINK THAT CARS today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation
Play It Again, Friedrich
J UST A BARRELLOAD of shit on the way to the rose-beds." Edgar the need-up army officer in Play Strindberg,
'If This Notion Is Maintained'
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Nabokov
I N 1969, Vladimir Nabokov published Ada, his fifteenth novel. He was then 70. In his youth he had identified
The Archaeology of Knowledge
L IKE THE GREAT thinkers he seeks to follow--Hegel, Nietzche, Marx--Michel Foucault stands ambiguously poised between disciplines. He was trained
Playing God
O RSON WELLES ALWAYS DID have a voice and presence rather like the Sunday school image of Almighty God, but
The Wallace Appeal: Primary Impressions
(Editor's note--The following article was written before Wallace was shot yesterday afternoon.) I N RALEIGH, N.C., the Wallace for President
Of Necessary Distance
T HREE FIGURES ceremonially link hands on the shoulders of a kneeling fourth, chanting revolutionary phrases. One draws back his
When We Dead Awaken
I N APRIL 1900 the eighteen-year-old James Jovce wrote a worshipful review of Henrik Ibsen's last drama, When We Dead
Alain Resnais: From Marienbad to the Bronx
T HE NAME OF ALAIN RESNAIS, for students of modern film, brings to mind a host of intense and often
The Present Future
Y OUR BASIC Red-Blooded Post-War American Kid grew up reading science fiction. He sheltered C.S. Lewis's Perelandra beneath the edge
Enter the Arena: Liz Coe
THE BULL Gets the Matador Once in a Lifetime-- a great title for a play, don't you think? Suggestions of
Adaptation
M OVE OVER, Hugh Downs, Elaine May has devised and patented the biggest game show of them all, Adaptation, the
Franz Kafka
D AVID Levine has drawn a wonderful caricature of Franz Kafka: the familiar face with hollow cheeks and dark, beady
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