Cultural criticism, architecture, literature, and the fine arts
Classical columns at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. A new generation of architects argues that such forms are not relics but enduring expressions of civic aspiration.
A new generation of architects is challenging modernism's half-century dominance with buildings that aspire to beauty, permanence, and the radical proposition that public spaces should inspire civic virtue.
Reports of literature's demise are greatly exaggerated — but the American novel's retreat from public consequence is real, self-inflicted, and not yet reversed.
