Partisan Review articles from March 2003

Partisan Review archives from March 2003

In remembrance.(Editorial)
March 22, 2003... THIS ISSUE OF Partisan Review is dedicated to William Phillips, "the soul of Partisan Review." The following tributes by writers and friends testify to his outstanding intelligence, his ideas and vision, his strength of character and integrity,...

Arthur Koestler: the consolations of communism.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... ARTHUR KOESTLER WRITES in his first volume of memoirs, Arrow in the Blue, that he would gladly exchange a hundred readers from his own time for just one of the next century. That's an intriguing trade for any writer, and Koestler probably meant...

The Art of Losing: polish poetry and translation.(Poem)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... I'VE CALLED MY ESSAY "THE ART OF LOSING" for obvious reasons: according to many critics, losing things is what translators do best. And it seems to me--although this may just be my personal bias--that translators of poetry generally get the...

Trauma and poetry: a psychoanalyst's view on the healing power of the arts.
March 22, 2003... SINCE THE EARLIEST WRITINGS of Freud and his followers, psychoanalysts and critics have tried to construct theories of creativity that link psychoanalysis and the arts. My ideas about the relationship between psychoanalysis and creativity come...

Dostoevsky and evil.(Poem)
March 22, 2003... IN THE SPRING OF 2002, a colloquium on the problem of evil, sponsored by the Nexus Foundation, was held at the University of Tilburg in Holland. I was a member of a panel assigned to discuss Dostoevsky, certainly the modern writer who has given...

Martyrs or survivors? Thoughts on the mythical dimension of the story war.
March 22, 2003... THE WAR THE PALESTINIANS started in September 2000, right in the middle of the Barak-Arafat-Clinton talks, I spent in my city, Jerusalem, where Jews and Arabs, Muslims and Christians, secular and orthodox, Armenians, Ethiopians, and pilgrims...

The American consensus and the American conservative.
March 22, 2003... FOR THE PAST TWO DECADES it has become apparent that an implosion has taken place within the ranks of American conservatism--that ideological tendency which emphasizes liberty over equality, national interest over global commitments, and moral...

1948-2003: some reflections.
March 22, 2003... COUNTERFACTUAL HISTORY (what would have happened if...) has its uses but, for obvious reasons, it has almost always been applied to political, seldom to cultural and intellectual, history--genius is of no country nor is stupidity. The...

Argentina: a private elegy.
March 22, 2003... Argentina! In my dreams, with half-shut eyes, I search for her once again within myself--with all my strength. Argentina! It is strange and all I want to know is this: why did I never feel such passion for Argentina in Argentina? Why does it...

Charting the intellectual career of Sidney Hook: five major steps.
March 22, 2003... THE CENTENNIAL OF SIDNEY HOOK'S BIRTH provides a unique vantage point for surveying the main intellectual movements of the twentieth century. These movements can be observed from the perspective afforded by each of the five major steps of...

At the galleries.(several shows noted and evaluated)
March 22, 2003... "THE NEXT ISSUE IS A TRIBUTE TO WILLIAM," Edith Kurzweil said. At the time, I couldn't imagine how "At the Galleries" could be made into a proper homage to the awe-inspiring Mr. Phillips, but by what can only be called serendipity, two...