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Index

The New Criterion

Volume 11

September 1992 – June 1993

Aitchison, James

  • The inheritance (Poem), Nov., 41

Allen, Brooke

  • Panpipes & preppies, a review of The Secret History by Donna Tartt BOOKS, Oct., 65;
  • Decline & fall, a review of Evelyn Waugh: The Later Years by Martin Stannard (BOOKS), Nov., 61;
  • Reading Henry Green, a review of Surviving: The Uncollected Writings of Henry Green edited by Matthew Yorke (BOOKS), Mar., 61;
  • Red pencils, a review of Proofs by George Steiner (BOOKS), Apr., 65

Arkin, Marc M.

  • The great awakener, a review of Jonathan Edwards by John E. Smith (BOOKS), May, 59

Arrowsmith, William

  • see Eugenio Montale

Barr-Sharrar, Beryl

  • On Hellenistic sculpture (ART), Dec., 42;
  • “The Greek Miracle”: Classical sculpture at the Met, May, 18

Barth, R. L., Edgar Bowers & 19 other signatories

  • Henri Coulette (Letter), Nov., 80

Bawer, Bruce

  • That Sontag woman, on The Volcano Lover by Susan Sontag, Sept., 30;
  • Membership & memory, a review of Fidelity: Five Stories by Wendell Berry (BOOKS), Nov., 71;
  • Literature & revolution, on Leviathan by Paul Auster, The Porcupine by Julian Barnes & other recent novels (FICTION CHRONICLE), Dec., 51;
  • The world & Peter Taylor, on The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court & earlier story collections, Apr., 31;
  • Why should we read Joyce Cary?, May, 9;
  • Shorter notice of Delmore Schwartz & James Laughlin: Selected Letters edited by Robert Phillips (BOOKS), May, 78

Berry, J. Duncan

  • “Style”--or whatever, a review of Problems of Style by Alois Riegl (BOOKS), Apr., 71

Bowman, James

  • Too “true” to be good, a review of Whistling in the Dark by George Garrett (BOOKS), Sept., 79;
  • Shorter notice of A Nation of Victims by Charles J. Sykes (BOOKS), Nov., 77;
  • Radical shtick, a review of Rads by Tom Bates (BOOKS), Dec., 72;
  • Heroic failures: the “Malcolm X” phenomenon, Jan., 11;
  • Out of touch, a review of Intellect & Public Life by Thomas Bender (BOOKS), Feb., 75;
  • The flaying of America, a review of Culture of Complaint by Robert Hughes (BOOKS), Apr., 58;
  • Pursuits of happiness, on The Wall Street Journal’s “No Guardrails” editorial & other matters (THE MEDIA), May, 54;
  • Shadows & fog, on The New York Times’s “Children of the Shadows” series & other matters (THE MEDIA), June, 60

Brandow, Michael

  • “Space,” class, etc. at the New Museum, on In Transit at the New Museum of Contemporary Art (NOTEBOOK), Mar., 78

Brookhiser, Richard

  • Beyond the bandstand, a review of Charles Ives: “My Father’s Song” by Stuart Feder (BOOKS), Oct., 71

Carduff, Christopher

  • Fish-eating, whiskey, death & rebirth, on Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell, Nov., 12;
  • Shorter notice of Leonard & Virginia Woolf as Publishers by J. H. Willis, Jr. (BOOKS), May, 76

Carne-Ross, D. S.

  • From the baked bricks: the poem of Gilgamesh, a review of Gilgamesh by David Ferry (BOOKS), Sept., 68

Cassidy, Victor M.

  • Who was Wyndham Lewis?, June, 26

Chace, James

  • Conducting culture at Bard (Letter), Sept., 87

Cone, Edward T.

  • Maritain at Princeton (Letter), Apr., 80

Cowling, Maurice

Crawley, Harriet

  • The hangman’s tale, on SS-3: The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, a film by Jan & Krystyna Kaplan (LETTER FROM PRAGUE), Sept., 55

Davenport, Guy

  • Idling into romance, a review of Salem Is My Dwelling Place: A Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Edwin H. Miller (BOOKS), Sept., 77;
  • Books into life, a review of The Double Life of Stephen Crane by Christopher Benfey (BOOKS), Oct., 68;
  • Nature’s design, a review of Faith in a Seed by Henry D. Thoreau (BOOKS), June, 79

Demetz, Peter

  • After the Velvet Revolution (LETTER FROM PRAGUE), Sept., 50

Epstein, Joseph

Falck, Colin

  • yes is a pleasant country, a review of E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1904-1962 edited by George J. Firmage (BOOKS), Dec., 69

Falcoff, Mark

  • The faithless Malraux, Nov., 30;
  • A life of his own, a review of Gerald Brenan by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy (BOOKS), June, 69

Fitzgerald, Penelope

  • The death of “Punch” (NOTEBOOK), Sept., 82;
  • “Really, one should burn everything,” a review of Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940-1985 edited by Anthony Thwaite (BOOKS), Mar., 68

Foerster, Richard

  • Canto XIII (Poem), Feb., 46

Fromkin, David

  • The “I” of the storm, a review of The World Crisis by Winston S. Churchill (BOOKS), Feb., 61

Gibson, Eric

  • Exhibition note on Kandinsky & the American Avant-Garde, 1912-1950 at the Dayton Art Institute (ART), Jan., 51;
  • Exhibition note on Susan Rothenberg at the Hirshhorn Museum (ART), Apr., 55;
  • Exhibition note on Picasso & the Age of Iron at the Guggenheim Museum (ART), May, 43

Gilbert, Creighton

  • The distance of Mantegna, on Andrea Mantegna at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (ART), Oct., 47

Glover, Michael

  • Shorter notice of The Gonne-Yeats Letters, 1893-1938 edited by Anna MacBride White & A. Norman Jeffares (BOOKS), Feb., 78;
  • The tongue of the Welsh, a review of Collected Poems by R. S. Thomas (BOOKS), May, 71

Greenberg, Martin

  • Sentimental favorites, a review of The Granta Book of the American Short Story edited by Richard Ford (BOOKS), Sept., 74;
  • Introduction to “From the Mattress Grave: Three Late Poems by Heinrich Heine,” Mar., 43;
  • A defense of translation, on The Poetics of Translation by Willis Barnstone, May, 24.
  • See also Heinrich Heine

Gress, David

  • Dangerous liaisons, a review of Past Imperfect: French Intellectuals, 1944-1956 by Tony Judt (BOOKS), Jan., 63

Gross, Barry R.

  • Peter Singer (Letter), June, 88

Heffernan, Michael

  • The world of light (Poem), Jan., 42;
  • Magpies (Poem), Jan., 43

Heine, Heinrich

  • Der Scheidende (Poem), in German, with facing translation, His good-bye, by Martin Greenberg, Mar., 44;
  • Lass die heilgen Parabolen (Poem), in German, with facing translation, Enough with all the parables, by Martin Greenberg, Mar., 46;
  • Gedäctnisfeier (Poem), in German, with facing translation, Memorial service, by Martin Greenberg, Mar., 48

Herington, John

  • The song of the bow, a review of The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles’ “Philoctetes” by Seamus Heaney (BOOKS), Oct., 73

Herrick, William

  • Orwell & Spain (Letter), Feb., 80

Hornik, Jessica

  • Key in hand (Poem), Oct., 46

Hudgins, Andrew

  • Milton (Poem), Oct., 42;
  • Blue tree (Poem), Oct., 43;
  • Bright leaf (Poem), Jan., 44;
  • Dog pile (Poem), Jan., 45

Jarman, Mark

  • Unholy sonnets, I-IV (Poems), Apr., 40

Johnston, George Sim

  • Little Wilson & big God, a review of Against Religion & Jesus by A. N. Wilson (BOOKS), Dec., 59;
  • Friendship & devotion, a review of Exiles & Fugitives: The Letters of Jacques & Raïssa Maritain, Allen Tate & Caroline Gordon edited by John M. Dunaway (BOOKS), Feb., 65

Kennedy, X. J.

  • Sharing the score (Poem), Dec., 36;
  • Orphan asylum, a review of Collected Poems, 1953-1993 by John Updike (BOOKS), Apr., 62

Kimball, Roger

  • Logic, love & unbearable pity: the private Bertrand Russell, on The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell, Volume I: The Private Years, 1884-1914 edited by Nicholas Griffin, Sept., 12;
  • How not to write about art, on The Turning Point by April Kingsley, Oct., 4;
  • The treason of the intellectuals & “The Undoing of Thought,” on The Undoing of Thought by Alain Finkielkraut, Dec., 10;
  • Exhibition note on Egypt’s Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III & His World at the Kimbell Art Museum (ART), Jan., 52;
  • The perversions of M. Foucault, on The Passion of Michel Foucault by James Miller, Mar., 10;
  • The first half of Muriel Spark, on Spark’s memoir Curriculum Vitae, Apr., 9;
  • Exhibition note on Max Ernst at MOMA (ART), Apr., 56;
  • Feeling sorry for Rosalind Krauss, on Krauss’s book The Optical Unconscious, May, 4;
  • Betraying a legacy: the case of the Barnes Foundation, on an exhibition of French paintings at the National Gallery, Washington, June, 9

Klinghoffer, David

  • Gestures of return, a review of Days of Obligation by Richard Rodriguez (BOOKS), Mar., 70;
  • A vision in terry cloth, a review of Seaward by Brad Leithauser (BOOKS), May, 65

Kramer, Hilton

  • Dispersing a museum collection (The new Guggenheim “galaxy”: I), Sept., 4;
  • Reflections on Matisse, on Henri Matisse: A Retrospective at MOMA, Nov., 5;
  • Aesthetics & ideology in “The Great Utopia,” on The Great Utopia: The Russian & Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915-1932 at the Guggenheim Museum, Dec., 5;
  • Mary McCarthy & company, on Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy & Her World by Carol Brightman, Jan., 5;
  • Poetry & the silencing of art, on Can Poetry Matter? by Dana Gioia, Feb., 4;
  • Clement Greenberg & the Cold War, on Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays & Criticism, volumes 3 & 4 edited by John O’Brian, Mar., 4;
  • Endangered tradition, a review of The Rise & Fall of the Man of Letters by John Gross (BOOKS), Mar., 76;
  • Henry James & the life of art, Apr., 5;
  • Reply to John O’Brian (Letter), May, 80;
  • Myths of the Fifties, on The Fifties by David Halberstam, June, 5

Lewis, Tess

  • Shorter notice of On Clowns & October, 8 O’Clock by Norman Manea (BOOKS), Oct., 76;
  • Seasons of belief, a review of What Remains & The Author’s Dimension by Christa Wolf (BOOKS), Apr., 74

Lipman, Samuel

  • The cry from the orchestras, on The Financial Condition of Symphony Orchestras, a report by the American Symphony Orchestra League, Sept., 23;
  • On seeing “Capriccio,” on the PBS telecast of the Richard Strauss opera (MUSIC), Nov., 42;
  • The new empty Glass, on Philip Glass’s opera The Voyage at the Met (MUSIC), Dec., 38;
  • Music “Behind the Scenes,” on the PBS arts education series (NOTEBOOK), Jan., 77;
  • Mitsuko Uchida at Carnegie Hall (MUSIC), Feb., 49;
  • Leon Botstein attempts to save music (MUSIC), Apr., 44;
  • To Washington by moonbeam, a review of Leaving Town Alive by John Frohnmayer (BOOKS), June, 76

Logan, William

  • After a line by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Poem), Oct., 44

Lyons, Donald

  • On the superiority of European methods, on Lermontov’s Bal masque at the Comédie Française & other European productions (THEATER), Sept., 59;
  • Sex, the Sixties & Camille Paglia, on Sex, Art & American Culture by Camille Paglia, Oct., 37;
  • Aeschylus in Brooklyn, on Ariane Mnouchkine’s Les Atrides at the Park Slope Armory (THEATER), Nov., 53;
  • Theater of academe, on David Mamet’s Oleanna & Simon Gray’s The Holy Terror (THEATER), Dec., 48;
  • Doing it wrong, on the National Actors Theatre production of The Seagull & other plays (THEATER), Jan., 53;
  • Catullus: the poet as lover & scourge, a review of Catullus by Charles Martin (BOOKS), Feb., 56;
  • Saints & sinners, on revivals of O’Neill’s Anna Christie & Shaw’s Saint Joan (THEATER), Mar., 56;
  • Shelley, Shaw & Broadway, on revivals of The Cenci & Candida & other plays (THEATER), May, 45;
  • The trouble with “Angels,” on Angels in America, Bergman’s Peer Gynt & three one-acts by Thornton Wilder (THEATER), June, 56

McCann, Kathleen

  • From the Tiger’s claw, on the Romantic in painting, Oct., 28

Mac Donald, Heather

  • Anti-familiar essays, a review of No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays by Ellen Willis (BOOKS), Jan., 69

Mallon, Thomas

  • Scrappy days, a review of H. L. Mencken: My Life as Author & Editor edited by Jonathan Yardley (BOOKS), Jan., 73

Mansfield, Harvey C.

  • The great Edmund Burke, on The Great Melody by Conor Cruise O’Brien, Nov., 8

Meyers, Jeffrey

  • Resentful parasite, a review of Reflections on James Joyce: Stuart Gilbert’s Paris Journal (BOOKS), May, 68

Montale, Eugenio

  • “Scendendo qualche volta . . .” (Poem), in Italian, with facing translation, “At times, climbing down . . .” by William Arrowsmith, June, 39;
  • “Giunge a volte, repente . . .” (Poem), in Italian, with facing translation, “Suddenly, at times, there comes . . .” by William Arrowsmith, June, 42;
  • Incontro (Poem), in Italian, with facing translation, Encounter, by William Arrowsmith, June, 44

Murray-Brown, Jeremy

  • A footnote to Yalta, Oct., 20;
  • Shorter notice of Cinema & Soviet Society, 1917-1953 by Peter Kenez (BOOKS), Nov., 78

Nims, John Frederick

  • Julianne-julienne (Poem), Dec., 37

Norris, Leslie

  • Bridal Veil Falls, early winter (Poem), Jan., 39

Notes & Comments

  • Post-Soviet denials, on I. F. Stone’s alleged links to the KGB, Sept., 1;
  • “Illiberal Education,” on Dinesh D’Souza’s book (René Wellek), Sept., 3;
  • The Dutch bid a tearful farewell to art welfare, on changes in Holland’s state arts funding, Oct., 1;
  • John Cage, 1912-1992, Oct., 2;
  • Allan Bloom, 1930-1992, Nov., 1;
  • Post-Soviet denials (continued), on the “absolution” of Alger Hiss, Dec., 1;
  • Recordings by the million, on the classical-music holdings of the former Soviet archives, Dec., 3;
  • Mrs. Cheney’s departure, on Lynne V. Cheney’s resignation as chairman of the NEH, Jan., 1;
  • Lincoln Center (continued), on Jane Moss, the Center’s new director of programming, Jan., 3;
  • Politics & sex at the MLA, on the 1992 presidential address by Houston A. Baker, Jr., Feb., 1;
  • The Hoving follies, on Making the Mummies Dance by Thomas Hoving, Feb., 3;
  • Matisse or Mapplethorpe: does it make any difference?, on Arthur Danto’s reflections on Matisse in The Nation, Mar., 1;
  • Do we exaggerate?, a catalogue of recent examples of politicized academic gibberish, Mar., 3;
  • The Sixties revolution & its legacy, on The Dream & the Nightmare by Myron Magnet, Apr., 1;
  • L’Affaire Derrida, on Jacques Derrida’s attempts to block publication of Richard Wolin’s book The Heidegger Controversy, May, 1;
  • Marian Anderson, 1897-1993, May, 3;
  • Is art free expression?, on a recent panel discussion on art and free speech at MOMA, June, 1;
  • Hegemony unmasked, on the MLA’s book Redrawing the Boundaries (James W. Tuttleton), June, 3

O’Brian, John

  • Clement Greenberg (Letter), May, 80

Ozick, Cynthia

  • What Henry James knew, on James’s The Awkward Age, Jan., 17

Penrose, James F.

Perl, Jed

  • Through a blighted landscape, on the paintings of Pat Adams & Shirley Jaffe (ART), Sept., 64;
  • Curators & Indians, on Art of the American Indian Frontier at the National Gallery of Art, Washington (ART), Oct., 53;
  • Chagall’s theater, on Marc Chagall & the Jewish Theater at the Guggenheim SoHo (ART), Nov., 46;
  • An American in Paris, on Ellsworth Kelly: The Years in France, 1948-1954 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington (ART), Jan., 46;
  • Getting emotional, on the paintings of Lisa Zwerling & Joan Snyder (ART), Feb., 52;
  • The gatherers, on assemblage (ART), Mar., 50;
  • From Tung Ch’i-ch’ang’s China to David Ross’s Manhattan, on The Century of Tung Ch’i-ch’ang at the Metropolitan Museum of Art & the 1993 Whitney Biennial (ART), Apr., 50;
  • Booked, on The American Livre de Peintre at the Grolier Club & other exhibitions of artists’ books (ART), May, 37;
  • What there was to see, on recent exhibitions of paintings by Joan Mitchell, Paul Resika & others (ART), June, 48

Petersen, Donald

  • Star teller (Poem), Sept., 42

Phillips, Robert

  • The Schwartz-Laughlin letters (Letter), June, 90

Prunty, Wyatt

  • Cousins, brothers, sisters (Poem), Jan., 41

Rand, Paul

  • Object lessons, a review of The Evolution of Useful Things by Henry Petroski (BOOKS), Feb., 68

Richman, Robert

  • Spaced out, a review of The Rabbiter’s Bounty & The Boys Who Stole the Funeral by Les Murray (BOOKS), Oct, 61;
  • Mute, gilded howling, a review of A Gilded Lapse of Time by Gjertrud Schnackenberg (BOOKS), Feb., 71;
  • Acquaintance of poets, a review of Their Ancient Glittering Eyes by Donald Hall (BOOKS), May, 73

Ricks, Christopher

  • Samuel Johnson in his letters, on The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volumes I-III, edited by Bruce Redford, Sept., 38

Rosenthal, Deborah

  • A transparent world: the notebooks of Paul Klee, Jan., 33

Rutenberg, Alan

  • Far & away, a review of Loneliness & Time by Mark Cocker (BOOKS), June, 81

Ryan, Fortune

  • Conducting culture at Bard (Letter), Sept., 88

Schmertz, Mildred F.

  • Disfiguring a landmark (The new Guggenheim “galaxy”: II), Sept., 8

Schwartz, Stephen

  • The tragedy of Yugoslavia (Letter), Oct., 78

Shaw, Robert B.

  • Old address book (Poem), Dec., 33;
  • Getting farsighted (Poem), Dec., 34

Shomer, Enid

  • Seeing cousins after many years (Poem), Nov., 38

Silber, John

Simon, John

  • Affirmative-action “Bartlett’s,” on Justin Kaplan’s edition of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, Nov., 23;
  • He said, she said, a review of The New York Public Library Book of 20th-Century American Quotations & The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 4th Edition (BOOKS), Jan., 67

Simpson, Louis

  • The Indian student (Poem), May, 33;
  • The poet’s pipe (Poem), May, 35

Sisson, C. H.

  • Shakespeare as shaman, a review of Shakespeare & the Goddess of Complete Being by Ted Hughes (BOOKS), Dec., 63

Skloot, Floyd

  • Currents (Poem), Feb., 47

Slavitt, David R.

  • Scordatura (Poem), Oct., 45

Solonche, J. R.

  • Over there (Poem), Feb., 44

Spiegelman, Willard

  • In memoriam: Howard Nemerov, 1920-1991 (NOTEBOOK), Dec., 76

Steele, Timothy

  • Anecdote of the sugar bowl (Poem), Nov., 40

Stepanchev, Stephen

  • A look at the moon (Poem), Feb., 45

Szarkowski, John

  • The magic begins, a review of Out of the Shadows: Herschel, Talbot & the Invention of Photography by Larry J. Schaaf (BOOKS), Dec., 66

Tanenhaus, Sam

  • Shorter notice of Left Letters: The Culture Wars of Mike Gold & Joseph Freeman by James D. Bloom (BOOKS), Oct., 75

Teachout, Terry

  • You don’t say, on Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities five years later (RECONSIDERATIONS), Jan., 57

Teichman, Jenny

  • Flights of the enchanter, a review of Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals by Iris Murdoch (BOOKS), Jan., 60;
  • The false philosophy of Peter Singer, Apr., 25;
  • Reply to Barry R. Gross & Ernest van den Haag (Letter), June, 89

Tillinghast, Richard

  • Reply to Stephen Schwartz (Letter), Oct., 79;
  • The way the petals fell (Poem), Dec., 31;
  • “They were as good as we were”: the stories of William Trevor, Feb., 10;
  • A politicized Plath, a review of The Haunting of Sylvia Plath by Jacqueline Rose (BOOKS), Mar., 74;
  • Top of the 11th, top of the order, a review of The Museum of Clear Ideas by Donald Hall (BOOKS), June, 84

Tuttleton, James W.

  • Twain’s brevities, a review of Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays edited by Louis J. Budd (BOOKS), Nov., 65;
  • Hemingway unbound, on Hemingway: A Life without Consequences by James R. Mellow, Dec., 23;
  • Back to the Sixties with Spindoctor Graff, on Beyond the Culture Wars by Gerald Graff, Mar., 28;
  • Hegemony unmasked (NOTES & COMMENTS), June, 3;
  • Through a glass darkly, a review of A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki (BOOKS), June, 65

van den Haag, Ernest

  • Peter Singer (Letter), June, 88

Wade, Sidney

  • Serenade in faded green (Poem), Feb., 42

Weiner, Lauren

  • Metropolitan life: the novels of Dawn Powell, Feb., 33

Wellek, René

  • “Illiberal Education” (NOTES & COMMENTS), Sept., 3

Wilkin, Karen

  • Art after Warhol, a review of Beyond the Brillo Box by Arthur C. Danto (BOOKS), Oct., 57;
  • Two American Cubists, on Suzy Frelinghuysen & George L. K. Morris at the Williams College Museum of Art (ART), Nov., 49;
  • Lo Spagnoletto: Jusepe de Ribera at the Met, Dec., 17;
  • Exhibition note on Masterworks from the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (ART), Jan., 50;
  • Forever young: Frédéric Bazille, on Frédéric Bazille: Prophet of Impressionism at the Brooklyn Museum, Feb., 28;
  • From the workshop of Torres-Garcãa, on El Taller Torres-Garcãa: The School of the South & Its Legacy at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Apr., 17;
  • Honoré Daumier: public & private, on Daumier Drawings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, June, 21

Williamson, Greg

  • A form of fulfillment (Poem), May, 36 Winegarten, Renee Camus today, Mar., 35;
  • Improbable friendship, a review of Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence (BOOKS), May, 62

Wiseman, Carter

  • Prerogatives of genius, a review of Frank Lloyd Wright by Meryle Secrest (BOOKS), Nov., 69;
  • Shorter notice of Bernard Maybeck: Visionary Architect by Sally B. Woodbridge (BOOKS), Feb., 79

Wojahn, David

  • Photo of my father in a snowbound train (Poem), Dec., 35

Zarin, Cynthia

  • Time & the great dead, a review of The Third Kind of Knowledge by Robert Fitzgerald (BOOKS), Apr., 67