Index

The New Criterion

Volume 12

September 1993 – June 1994

Allen, Brooke

  • G.B.S.: the life of George Bernard Shaw, on Michael Holroyd’s biography, Sept., 38;
  • More than sensational: the life & art of Wilkie Collins, Dec., 31;
  • A talent to delight: Nancy Mitford in her letters, a review of Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford edited by Charlotte Mosley (BOOKS), Jan., 58;
  • Poisoned Wells, a review of The Invisible Man: The Life & Liberties of H. G. Wells by Michael Coren (BOOKS), Feb., 71;
  • If the suit fits . . ., a review of A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis (BOOKS), Mar., 60;
  • The professor & the poetess, a review of The Russian Girl, by Kingsley Amis (BOOKS), May, 69;
  • Cheever Country, 1994, on new novels by Benjamin Cheever, Nicholson Baker, Douglas Hobbie & Rick Moody (FICTION CHRONICLE), June, 58

Arkin, Marc M.

  • Joyful Noyes, a review of Without Sin: The Life & Death of the Oneida Community by Spencer Klaw (BOOKS), Dec., 73;
  • Does God have a future?, a review of A History of God by Karen Armstrong (BOOKS), Jan., 73;
  • Big little lady, a review of Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life by Joan D. Hedrick (BOOKS), Mar., 72;
  • “The Tenth Justice,” a review of Learned Hand by Gerald Gunther (BOOKS), May, 75

Ascher, Maria Louise

  • The first “Immortelle,” a review of Marguerite Yourcenar: Inventing a Life by Josyane Savigneau (BOOKS), Oct., 62

Auden, W. H.

  • Four early poems (Encounter, Quique amavit, Aware & Bach & the lady), June, 32

Bloom, Jeffrey

  • Shorter notice of Life After God by Douglas Coupland (BOOKS), Apr., 79

Bowman, James

  • The use & abuse of violence, on television violence (THE MEDIA), Sept., 71;
  • The air is blue, on television sex (THE MEDIA), Oct., 54
  • Care TV, on “compassion” & “caring” on television (THE MEDIA), Nov., 1993
  • Leave it to Beavis, on television programming for children & other matters (THE MEDIA), Dec., 56;
  • Feeling sentimental, on the New York Times columnist Anna Quindlen & other matters (THE MEDIA), Jan., 53;
  • Fornigate follies, on David Brock’s report on the sex life of Bill linton in The American Spectator & media reaction to it (THE MEDIA), Feb., 61;
  • Winter games, on media coverage of the Tonya Harding case & other matters (THE MEDIA), Mar., 47;
  • Swagger & attitude, on the importance of being “bad” (THE MEDIA), Apr., 55;
  • Hand-wringing over Whitewater, on the press’s self- criticism over its coverage of the White House scandal (THE MEDIA), May, 63;
  • Nixon & “Middlemarch”: new versions for the 90s, on the death of Richard Nixon & a teleplay based on the George Eliot novel (THE MEDIA), June, 52

Brookhiser, Richard

  • State of the essay?, a review of United States by Gore Vidal (BOOKS), Sept., 80

Brown, Clarence

  • Mann & boy, a review of Tintin in the New World by Frederic Tuten (BOOKS), Nov., 78

Busch, Trent

  • School zone (Poem), Apr., 31

Carduff, Christopher

  • “Just let me put this bastard on the skids,” a review of Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life by Andrew Motion (BOOKS), Sept., 83;
  • Shorter notice of Brazil by John Updike (BOOKS), Feb., 77;
  • The boys & their baby, a review of We Are All in the Dumps with Jack & Guy by Maurice Sendak (BOOKS), Mar., 63

Cook, Jonathan

  • Shorter notice of Herman Melville: Correspondence edited by Lynn Horth (BOOKS), Dec., 78

Cowling, Maurice

  • Alasdair MacIntyre, religion & the university, Feb., 32

Davenport, Guy

  • Tough buttons, a review of A Stein Reader by Gertrude Stein (BOOKS), Nov., 72;
  • The sage of Slabsides, a review of The World of John Burroughs by Edward Kanze (BOOKS), Dec., 68

The Editors

  • Reply to Marjorie Heins (Letter), Nov., 96

Epstein, Daniel Mark

  • The boy in the well (Poem), Mar., 31;
  • The twins (Poem), Mar., 33;
  • The ferryman (Poem), May, 40;
  • Lost owl (Poem), May, 42

Epstein, Joseph

  • C. P. Cavafy, a poet in history, Jan., 15;
  • Life sentences: the art of Joseph Conrad, June, 16

Falcoff, Mark

  • Shorter notice of The Man Who Wasn’t Maigret: A Portrait of Georges Simenon by Patrick Marnham (BOOKS), Jan., 78

Frum, David

  • The genius of capitalism, a review of John Maynard Keynes: The Economist as Savior by Robert Skidelsky (BOOKS), Apr., 61

Gibson, Eric

  • Exhibition note on Jean Dubuffet, 1943– 1963 at the Hirshhorn Museum (ART), Sept., 65;
  • Exhibition note on John James Audubon: The Watercolors for “The Birds of America” at the National Gallery of Art (ART), Nov., 59;
  • Exhibition note on Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series at the Phillips Collection (ART), Dec., 51;
  • Lives of the artists, a review of Elaine & Bill by Lee Hall & Mark Rothko by James E. B. Breslin (BOOKS), Jan., 69;
  • Exhibition note on Howard Hodgkin: Recent Paintings at Knoedler & Co. (ART), Mar., 41;
  • Exhibition note on Robert Morris: The Mind/ Body Problem at the Guggenheim Museum (ART), Apr., 42;
  • Exhibition note on Richard Avedon: Evidence, 1944–1994 at the Whitney Museum of American Art (ART), May, 53;
  • Exhibition note on American Impressionism & Realism at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (ART), June, 42

Gilbert, Creighton

  • Art the Quattrocento fashioned, on the vogue for Piero della Francesca & other matters, Nov., 41

Gioia, Dana

  • Seneca & European tragedy, Dec., 16;
  • Seneca & the idea of lyric tragedy, Jan., 29.
  • See also Seneca

Glover, Michael

  • Shorter notice of The Wreck of the Deutschland by Sean Street (BOOKS), Dec., 76;
  • Through a keyhole, a review of Imagination of the Heart: The Life of Walter de la Mare by Theresa Whistler (BOOKS), Feb., 73;
  • Thistles & thorns, a review of Selected Poetry by Hugh MacDiarmid (BOOKS), Mar., 67;
  • Doleful laureate, a review of Tennyson by Peter Levi & Tennyson by Michael Thorn (BOOKS), Apr., 74

Gross, John

  • A prodigy of parody, a review of A Christmas Garland by Max Beerbohm (BOOKS), Jan., 62

Guerin, Christopher D.

  • Who’s killing our orchestras? (Letter), Nov., 95

Hadas, Rachel

  • May (Poem), Apr., 34

Hagan, Patti

  • Slip slidin’ away, a review of Cycles of Rock & Water by Kenneth A. Brown (BOOKS), Apr., 72

Haines, John

  • The telling (Poem), Feb., 43;
  • Wounded life (Poem), May, 43;
  • Orpheus (Poem), May, 44

Halac, Dennis

  • Ever so true: Willa Cather & T. G. Masaryk, Nov., 36

Hall, Donald

  • Storefront (Poem), Oct., 35;
  • Lost (Poem), Oct., 36;
  • Regret (Poem), Oct., 36;
  • Goodnight (Poem), Oct., 37;
  • Borders (Poem), Oct., 38;
  • Order (Poem), Oct., 38

Heins, Marjorie

  • Is art free expression? (Letter), Nov., 96;
  • The ACLU & the Finley case (Letter), Dec., 80

Herington, John

  • Apologies for the ancients, a review of two studies in the classics by Bernard Knox (BOOKS), Oct., 58

Johnston, George Sim

  • Relics, a review of The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints by Jacobus de Voragine (BOOKS), Dec., 62

Kaplan, H. J.

Kimball, Roger

  • James Q. Wilson on the moral sense, on Mr. Wilson’s book The Moral Sense, Sept., 8;
  • Sex in the twilight zone: Catharine MacKinnon’s crusade, on Ms. MacKinnon’s book Only Words, Oct., 11;
  • On the one hand, on the other: Stephen Carter tackles religion, on Mr. Carter’s book The Culture of Disbelief, Dec., 10;
  • Going no place with Peter Blake, on Mr. Blake’s book No Place Like Utopia, Jan., 9;
  • “The Two Cultures” today, on the C. P. Snow–F. R. Leavis controversy, Feb., 10;
  • Exhibition note on The Golden Age of Danish Painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (ART), Mar., 42;
  • Without rancor: Sybille Bedford’s achievement, Apr., 11;
  • Exhibition note on William Bailey: Selected Works at the André Emmerich Gallery (ART), Apr., 41;
  • When reason sleeps: the academy vs. science, on Higher Superstition by Paul R. Gross & Norman Levitt, May, 10;
  • Exhibition note on Petrus Christus: Renaissance Master of Bruges at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (ART), May, 55;
  • Saving the appearances: Roger Scruton on philosophy, on Mr. Scruton’s book Modern Philosophy: An Introduction & Survey, June, 10
  • Introduction to “Four Early Poems” by W. H. Auden (Poems), June, 32;
  • Exhibition note on Treasures in Heaven: Armenian Illuminated Manuscripts at the Pierpont Morgan Library (ART), June, 44

Klinghoffer, David

  • Wunderkind, a review of Body & Soul by Frank Conroy (BOOKS), Oct., 69

Koch, Stephen

Kramer, Hilton

  • Art & its institutions: notes on the culture war, on the M.I.T. symposium The Public Patron: Drafting a Mandate for a Federal Arts Agency & related matters, Sept., 4;
  • Exhibition note on Fairfield Porter: An American Painter at the Parrish Art Museum (ART), Sept., 64;
  • Diana Trilling’s “Journey,” on Mrs. Trilling’s memoir The Beginning of the Journey, Oct., 6;
  • Reflections on Miró, on the Miró retrospective at MOMA, Nov., 4;
  • The travels of Henry James, on James’s Collected Travel Writings, Dec., 6;
  • Exhibition note on American Painting in the 20th Century at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (ART), Dec., 51;
  • “The Intellectuals & the Masses,” on the book by John Carey, Jan., 4;
  • Old “Times” & new, on two New York Times memoirs, My “Times” by John Corry & Behind the “Times” by Edwin Diamond, Feb., 4;
  • At the Bauhaus: the fate of art in “the Cathedral of Socialism,” Mar., 4;
  • Who was Dwight Macdonald?, Apr., 5;
  • Exhibition note on Andrew Forge: Recent Paintings at the Robert Morrison Gallery (ART), Apr., 43;
  • Angry history: Richard Pipes on the Bolshevik Revolution, on Mr. Pipes’s book Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime, May, 5;
  • Exhibition note on Joseph Stella at the Whitney Museum of American Art (ART), May, 56;
  • Willem de Kooning at 90, on Willem de Kooning: Paintings at the National Gallery of Art, June, 4

Levine, Philip

  • Henri Coulette (Letter), Dec., 80

Lewis, Tess

  • Shorter notice of Strolls with Pushkin by Andrei Sinyavsky (Abram Tertz) (BOOKS), Apr., 78

Lipman, Samuel

  • Who’s killing our symphony orchestras?, on the American Symphony Orchestra League report Americanizing the American Orchestra, Sept., 13;
  • New worlds & old, on three CDs of contemporary music from New World Records & a reissue of performances by tenor Jan Kiepura (MUSIC), Oct., 39;
  • Reply to Christopher D. Guerin (Letter), Nov., 95;
  • Lincoln Center’s chamber-music problems, on the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at 25 (MUSIC), Jan., 43;
  • On hearing Liszt live, on a piano recital by Christina Kiss at Carnegie Hall (MUSIC), Feb., 46

Logan, William

  • The fallen world of Geoffrey Hill, on Mr. Hill’s New & Collected Poems, Mar., 10

Lyons, Donald

  • Summer fare, on Jane Bowles’s In the Summer House & other plays (THEATER), Sept., 67;
  • At long last, Lulu, on Frank Wedekind’s Lulu plays (THEATER), Oct., 50;
  • Young & at sea, on the Willow Cabin production of Eugene O’Neill’s S.S. Glencairn (THEATER), Nov., 60;
  • Going nowhere, on Brian Friel’s play Wonderful Tennessee (THEATER), Dec., 53;
  • Abes & angels, on the revival of Robert E. Sherwood’s Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, Part II: Perestroika & other plays (THEATER), Jan., 48;
  • Words at play, on All in the Timing, six one-act comedies by David Ives (THEATER), Feb., 58;
  • On belly & floor in Pinterland, on the Broadway revival of Pinter’s No Man’s Land (THEATER), Mar., 44;
  • Can’t anyone here play this game?, on Damn Yankees & other failed Broadway revivals (THEATER), Apr., 52;
  • Second chances, on revivals of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel & Odets’s The Flowering Peach (THEATER), May, 58;
  • Angry women & furious machines, on recent British imports, a revival of Picnic & new plays by Arthur Miller & Edward Albee (THEATER), June, 45

Mac Donald, Heather

  • Women beware women, a review of Who Stole Feminism? by Christina Hoff Sommers (BOOKS), June, 66

McDonald, Walter

  • Before children (Poem), Apr., 33

Mack, Sara

  • Ovid transformed, a review of The Metamorphoses of Ovid: A New Verse Trans- lation by Allen Mandelbaum (BOOKS), Feb., 66

McPherson, Sandra

  • Path through the rhododendron and azalea test gardens twenty years ago (Poem), Nov., 48

Mallon, Thomas

  • Life stories, a review of Keepers of the Flame by Ian Hamilton (BOOKS), June, 80

Manhire, Bill

  • Some screens (Poem), Nov., 50

Mansfield, Harvey C., Jr.

Mellow, James R.

  • Agee & after, a review of Always Straight Ahead: A Memoir by Alma Neuman (BOOKS), Oct., 66

Meyers, Jeffrey

  • Priapic polymath, a review of The Sixties by Edmund Wilson (BOOKS), Sept., 88;
  • Smug syndicate, a review of Splendours & Miseries: A Life of Sacheverell Sitwell by Sarah Bradford (BOOKS), Dec., 70

Morgan, Frederick

  • The fugitive (Poem), Sept., 55;
  • Gifts (Poem), Sept., 57;
  • The watcher (Poem), Sept., 58

Morrone, Francis

  • Citizen Jane Jacobs, May, 24

Murray-Brown, Jeremy

  • Festival of smoke, a review of A Memoir by Leni Riefenstahl (BOOKS), Nov., 74;
  • Shorter notice of The Cinema of Eisenstein by David Bordwell (BOOKS), Jan., 79;
  • Wordless secrets: the cinema of Ingmar Bergman, on Bergman’s book Images: My Life in Film, Apr., 19

Notes & Comments

  • Why waste time on kooks?, on Deborah Lipstadt’s book Denying the Holocaust, Sept., 1;
  • Perfect justice, on the appointment of Dennis Barrie to the directorship of the Rock-&-Roll Hall of Fame, Sept., 3;
  • Never apologize, never explain: “The New York Review” at 30, Oct., 1;
  • Ethical obligations?, on the Harper’s magazine forum New Rules About Sex on Campus, Oct., 3;
  • Viewing the libretto, on the Metropolitan Opera’s decision to surrender to supertitles, Oct., 4;
  • The specialist & the amateur, on George Levine’s review, in The New York Times Book Review, of Joseph Epstein’s Pertinent Players, Nov., 1;
  • Speech or action?, on speech codes on campus, Nov., 3;
  • Alger Hiss, trusted accomplice, on further evidence that Alger Hiss was a member of the Soviet underground, Nov., 3;
  • Redefining deviancy, on Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s essay Defining Deviancy Down & Charles Krauthammer’s essay Defining Deviancy Up, Dec., 1;
  • Not since “Mein Kampf” . . . on the British reviews of Margaret Thatcher’s memoir, The Downing Street Years, Dec., 3;
  • Cookies are the least of it, on Roberta Smith’s review, in The New York Times, of Mike Kelley at the Whitney Museum, Dec., 4;
  • “Word work” in Stockholm, on Toni Morrison’s Nobel Address, Jan., 1;
  • Alice Tully, 1902–1993, Jan., 3;
  • The death of a classical station, on the decline & demise of New York City’s WNCN-FM, Feb., 1;
  • Only words, on the Catharine MacKinnon–Carlin Romano spat in the pages of The Nation, Feb., 2;
  • A prescription for fatuousness, on the Richard Sennett–Richard Rorty exchange on patriotism & the academic Left in The New York Times, Mar., 1;
  • Beverly Sills at Lincoln Center, on the naming of Miss Sills as the Center’s chairman of the board, Mar., 2;
  • The fringe as mainstream, on academic book publishing, Mar., 3;
  • Exit comparative literature, enter “cultural productions,” on the American Comparative Literature Association’s State of the Discipline report, Apr., 1;
  • Philosophy made him do it, on George Steiner’s review of the memoirs of Louis Althusser in The New Yorker, Apr., 2;
  • “Zeitgeist of the week,” on the phrase coined by Kurt Andersen, the new editor of New York magazine, Apr., 3;
  • “Viewer discretion is advised,” on the performance art of Ron Athey at the Walker Art Center, May, 1;
  • Trilling vs. Trilling, on the awarding of the Lionel Trilling Book Award to Diana Trilling’s The Beginning of the Journey, May, 2;
  • Helen Wolff, 1906–1994, May, 3;
  • Clement Greenberg, 1909–1994, June, 1;
  • Farewell, Amadeus, on Lincoln Center’s plans to discontinue its Mostly Mozart Festival, June, 2

Pack, Robert

  • Observer (Poem), Mar., 34

Padhi, Bibhu

  • Small wants, again (Poem), Nov., 51

Penrose, James F.

  • Two types of austerity, a review of Sibelius by Robert Layton & Stravinsky by Paul Griffiths (BOOKS), Nov., 81

Perl, Jed

  • Mostly Marden, on Brice Marden, William Plevin-Foust & Mark di Suvero (ART), Sept., 60;
  • Balthus presents Balthus, on the Balthus retrospective in Lausanne, Oct., 17;
  • Miracle at the Met, on the new 19th-century European paintings & sculpture galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (ART), Nov., 53;
  • Code name: painting, on the state of easel painting in New York City: Leland Bell, Trevor Winkfield & others (ART), Dec., 46;
  • Snyder’s earth, Freud’s skin, on Joan Snyder: Works with Paper at the Allentown Art Museum & Lucian Freud: Recent Works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (ART), Feb., 51;
  • Unforgotten years, on a variety of historical gallery shows in New York City (ART), Mar., 36;
  • Matthiasdottir in full color, on new still lifes & self-portraits by Louisa Matthiasdottir at Salander-O’Reilly (ART), May, 49;
  • After Judd: notes at season’s end, on David Salle, Philip Taaffe, Bill Jensen & Donald Judd (ART), June, 38

Richman, Robert

  • The book of winter, a review of The Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer: Collected Poems by John Haines (BOOKS), Dec., 65;
  • Shorter notice of The Ern Malley Affair by Michael Heyward (BOOKS), Feb., 77;
  • Hunter of forms, a review of The Door in the Wall by Charles Tomlinson (BOOKS), June, 76

Rudich, Vasily

  • A moralist restored, a review of Tacitus by Ronald Mellor (BOOKS), Mar., 56

Rutenberg, Alan

  • The imaginative invalid, a review of Dreams of Exile: Robert Louis Stevenson by Ian Bell (BOOKS), Nov., 84;
  • Shorter notice of The Green Knight by Iris Murdoch (BOOKS), Jan., 77

Salter, Mary Jo

  • A dissertation (Poem), Dec., 44

Sartarelli, Stephen

  • An amateur’s love of the English: Lampedusa’s “Letteratura inglese,” Sept., 21;
  • Mistral (Poem), Apr., 35;
  • The barbarian within, on the French government’s attempts to stamp out “Franglais” (LETTER FROM PARIS), May, 45.
  • See also Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr.

Seneca

  • Lycus proposes marriage, a scene from Hercules Furens adapted from the Latin by Dana Gioia, Jan., 39

Shapiro, Harvey

  • On writing (Poem), Sept., 59

Shils, Edward

  • The career of Harold Laski, Apr., 24

Simon, John

  • Robed in images: the memoirs of James Merrill, a review of Mr. Merrill’s A Different Person (BOOKS), Sept., 75;
  • Shorter notice of Alice in Bed by Susan Sontag (BOOKS), Oct., 71;
  • Text’s jest-book, a review of Beckett’s Dying Words by Christopher Ricks (BOOKS), Jan., 65;
  • Richard Wilbur: a tribute (NOTEBOOK), Mar., 77;
  • Anna Akhmatova, May, 29

Simpson, Louis

  • The choir master’s evening party (Poem), Dec., 41

Sisson, C. H.

  • In the silence (Poem), Nov., 46

Spires, Elizabeth

Steyn, Mark

Straus, Roger W.

  • Wilson’s “The Sixties” (Letter), Nov., 96

Tanenhaus, Sam

  • Real powers, a review of It All Adds Up by Saul Bellow (BOOKS), Apr., 65

Teachout, Terry

Teichman, Jenny

  • What is sacred? Ronald Dworkin & his answers, on Mr. Dworkin’s book Life’s Dominion, Nov., 8;
  • Understanding Arendt, a review of Essays in Understanding by Hannah Arendt (BOOKS), Apr., 68

Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe

  • Reflections on English literature selected & translated from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli, Sept., 27;
  • Further reflections on English literature selected & translated from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli, Oct., 23

Tomlinson, Charles

  • Four for David Smith (Interior for exterior, The timeless clock, Hudson River landscape & Bolton Landing) (Poems), Dec., 42

Tucker, William

  • Rodin in the round, a review of Rodin by Ruth Butler (BOOKS), Mar., 52

Tuttleton, James W.

Weiner, Lauren

  • Shorter notice of Ottoline Morrell by Miranda Seymour (BOOKS), Oct., 73

Weissmann, Gerald

  • Mesmer revisited: Bill Moyers & New Age healing, on Mr. Moyers’s book & tele- vision series Healing & the Mind (NOTEBOOK), Oct., 74

Wilkin, Karen

  • Rebecca Horn at the Guggenheim (ART), Oct., 44;
  • Exhibition note on Baudelaire’s Voyages: The Poet & His Painters at the Hecksher Museum (ART), Nov., 57;
  • Maple-leaf modernist: the case of Emily Carr, Dec., 26;
  • The eloquent whispers of Giorgio Morandi, on the new Museo Morandi in Bologna, Jan., 23;
  • An endless now: the art of Euan Uglow, Feb., 27;
  • Degas & his landscapes, on Degas Landscapes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mar., 18;
  • Rubens & his age, on The Age of Rubens at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (ART), Apr., 36;
  • The best & the worst of Louise Bourgeois, on Louise Bourgeois: The Locus of Memory at the Brooklyn Museum, June, 26

Winegarten, Renee

  • Seductive monsters: Laclos’s “Liaisons dangereuses,” Mar., 24;
  • Flaubert’s muse, a review of Rage & Fire: A Life of Louise Colet by Francine du Plessix Gray (BOOKS), May, 72

Woldenberg, Susan

  • Frank Lloyd Wright comes to MOMA, on the exhibition Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect (ARCHITECTURE), Apr., 45