The New Criterion

Author

Stephen Schwartz

Stephen Schwartz's new book, The Other Islam, is forthcoming from Doubleday.

Articles

Bartók, Parry & Lord: a flawed legacy (Notebook) , November 2009, 76
Debunking the myth of "Homeric" Balkan folk songs.

Following the code (Books) , March 2009, 70
A review of People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks.

Degradation & disgrace (Books) , September 2008, 71
On The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia by Tim Tzouliadis.

Revisiting "Catalonia" again (Letters) , April 2007, 94
A letter from Stephen Schwartz.

Being blunt about Blunt (Features) , November 2005, 21
Stephen Schwartz on the nature of the real Anthony Blunt.

Infinitely abysmal (Books) , May 2005, 75
A review of Tales, by H. P. Lovecraft.

A literary river (Books) , September 2004, 68
A review of The Case of Comrade Tulayev, by Victor Serge, translated by Willard R. Trask, introduction by Susan Sontag.

Literary leftovers (Books) , October 2003, 73
A review of Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left, by Alan M. Wald.

A fable for our time (Books) , October 2001, 63
A review of The Perfect Heresy: The Revolutionary Life and Death of the Albigensians, by Stephen O’Shea; The Cathars, by Malcolm Barber; The Yellow Cross: The Story of the Last Cathars 1290 - 1329, by René Weiss & The Other God, by Yuri Stoyanov.

Rewriting George Orwell (Features) , September 2001, 63
A consideration of a new and bowdlerized edition of Homage to Catalonia.

Liberated by America (Books) , February 2001, 68
A review of Itinerary: An Intellectual Journey, by Octavio Paz, translated by Jason Wilson.

The Padilla affair in retrospect (Notebook) , December 2000, 84
Upon the death of the exiled Cuban poet.

A certain exhaustion (Letters) , October 2000, 40

Five Yugoslav classics (Features) , May 2000, 15

Muddling through in Bosnia (Letters) , February 2000, 32
On the situation in Sarajevo

Poseur poser (Books) , October 1999, 70
Reviews of Shadows, Fire, Snow: The Life of Tina Modotti by Clarkson N. Potter & Tina Modotti: A Life by Pino Cacucci

A shameful book (Books) , June 1999, 84
The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali by Ian Gibson