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John Simon

John Simon's collections of film, theater, and music criticism are available from Applause.

Articles

Small things (Poems) , October 2009, 29

Elia Kazan: a director's notes (Features) , September 2009, 18
A look at the brain behind the camera.

Shakespeare du jour (Books) , April 2009, 64
A review of Shakespeare and Modern Culture, by Marjorie Garber (Pantheon).

Prokofiev abroad (Features) , November 2008, 21
On the diaries of Sergey Prokofiev.

Mallarmé's wanderings (Reconsiderations) , March 2008, 30
On Barbara Johnson's translation of Divagations by Stéphane Mallarmé.

Play on (Books) , January 2008, 72
On The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, by Alex Ross.

Of verts (Poems) , October 2007, 30

The three Ms of German poetry (Features) , April 2007, 27
On Twentieth-Century German Poetry: An Anthology, edited by Michael Hofmann.

Chez Proust (Features) , March 2007, 15
On recently published Proustiana.

Learning to read (Reconsiderations) , January 2007, 39
A reflection on the early joys of the written word.

Orpheus dissembling (Features) , June 2006, 22
On Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

All for love (Books) , April 2006, 68
On Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems edited by J. D. McClathy.

Shorter notice (Books) , March 2006, 73
Margo Jefferson's "On Michael Jackson" reviewed.

Bardolatry made easy (Books) , April 2005, 70
A review of Will in the World, by Stephen Greenblatt.

Beyond faeryland (Books) , May 2004, 70
A review of W. B. Yeats: A Life Volume II: The Arch-Poet, 1915-1939, by R. F. Foster.

The poet of the Reich (Features) , October 2003, 20
Occasioned by the publication of Secret Germany: Stefan George and His Circle, by Robert E. Norton.

Ill met at the MET (Music) , July 2003
The Kirov opera comes to New York's Lincoln Center.

From little acorns (Books) , May 2003, 78
A review of Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God, by A. C. Grayling.

Oscar: six acts at the Morgan (Notebook) , January 2002, 77
A review of Oscar Wilde: A Life in Six Acts at the Morgan Library.

The other Rota (Music) , September 2000, 53
On classical music of Nino Rota.

A great, baggy monster: Rilke's Duino Elegies (Features) , January 2000, 17

Victimized Verlaine (Features) , June 1999, 29
On One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine, translated by Norman R. Shapiro

Concert notes (Music) , March 1999, 54

Partying on Parnassus: the New York School Poets (Features) , October 1998, 31
Occasioned by David Lehman's The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets

The Kirov opera at the Met (Music) , June 1998, 53
On the Kirov Opera Festival at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York

Solti on Solti (Books) , April 1998, 62
Review of Memoirs by Sir Georg Solti, with Harvey Sachs

Concert note (Music) , February 1998, 57
On Capriccio, by Richard Strauss, at the Metropolitan Opera, New York

Music note (Music) , December 1997, 52
On Opera & Politics: From Monteverdi to Menze by John Bokina

Thoroughly Modern Burchfield (Books) , March 1997, 66
Review of The New Fowler's Modern English Usage edited by R. W. Burchfield

Supreme nonfiction (Books) , January 1997, 63
Review of Walking Possession: Essays & Reviews, 1969-1993 by Ian Hamilton

Portraits & spells: the mad genius of Antonin Artaud (Art) , November 1996, 37
On an exhibition of Artaud's artwork at the Museum of Modern Art, New York

The multicultural Muse (Features) , September 1996, 42
On The Best American Poetry 1996 edited by Adrienne Rich

Death fugues: the poems of Paul Celan (Features) , May 1996, 28

A foursquare waltz: 'Der Rosenkavalier' at City Opera (Music) , April 1996, 50

Janacek & the Norman Conquest (Music) , February 1996, 52

What Gore remembers (Features) , December 1995, 18
On Gore Vidal's memoir Palimpsest.

Paul Hindemith: a centenary cenotaph (Music) , October 1995, 47
On Paul Hindemith's Mathis der Maler at New York City Opera.

Shorter Notice (Books) , June 1995, 85



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