Fall 2024

Though it lasted only sixteen months, the magazine Seven Arts (1916-17) defined an important cultural moment in the United States. Distinctively American but cosmopolitan, modernist in commitment but democratic and constructive in spirit, Seven Arts was, in the phrase of …

When people speak of New York as being different, something other than America, they seem to have in mind a special quality of the city’s culture and politics, perhaps associated with its ethnic makeup. Such perceptions, however imprecise, have a …