Index

The New Criterion

Volume 14

September 1995 – June 1996

Allen, Brooke

  • Jane Austen for the Nineties, on Jane Austen’s Letters edited by Deirdre Le Faye, Sept., 15;
  • Introverts & émigrés, on the collected stories of Evan S. Connell & Vladimir Nabokov (FICTION CHRONICLE), Oct., 58;
  • Misalliance, a review of Selected Correspondence of Bernard Shaw, Vol. 2: Bernard Shaw & H. G. Wells edited by J. Percy Smith (BOOKS), Dec., 64;
  • Losing faith, a review of In the Beauty of the Lilies by John Updike (BOOKS), Jan., 57;
  • Sound & fury, a review of The Moor’s Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie (BOOKS), Mar., 59;
  • The dominion of Robertson Davies, on the author’s work & a new biography, Robertson Davies: Man of Myth by Judith Skelton Grant, Apr., 9;
  • Intellects & addicts, on Babel Tower by A. S. Byatt & Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (FICTION CHRONICLE), May, 63

Arkin, Marc M.

  • Diluting Edwards, a review of Jonathan Edwards, Religious Tradition & American Culture by Joseph A. Conforti (BOOKS), Apr., 70

Auchincloss, Louis

  • Sutherland rides again, a review of The Return of George Sutherland: Restoring the Jurisprudence of Natural Rights by Hadley Arkes (BOOKS), Oct., 68

Baumel, Judith

  • Vandalism (Poem), Feb., 38

Berry, J. Duncan

  • Shorter notice of The Villas of Pliny from Antiquity to Posterity by Pierre de la Rufinière du Prey (BOOKS), Mar., 69

Bowman, James

  • Hollywood values, on corporate mergers in the entertainment industry & Bob Dole’s indictment of Hollywood (THE MEDIA), Sept., 57;
  • Taking the Nineteenth, on the women’s conference in Beijing & the admission of Shannon Faulkner to The Citadel (THE MEDIA), Oct., 51;
  • Black & white & read all over, on the Million Man March & race in the media (THE MEDIA), Nov., 57;
  • The very prime of prime time?, on Charles McGrath’s article in The New York Times Magazine in praise of recent television dramas (THE MEDIA), Dec., 42;
  • Groupthink TV, on the current state of prime-time television shows (THE MEDIA), Jan., 52;
  • Smoke gets in your eyes, on media moralists & the tobacco wars (THE MEDIA), Feb., 60;
  • The press’s na‹ve cynicism, on Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy by James Fallows & other matters (THE MEDIA), Mar., 48;
  • For the lady from Dubuque, on The New Yorker’s “Women’s Issue” (THE MEDIA), Apr., 54;
  • Some heroes of our time, on celebrity culture (THE MEDIA), May, 57;
  • Blandness & objectivity, on “fairness” & “objectivity” in the media (THE MEDIA), June, 51

Brookhiser, Richard

  • Cooper & son, a review of William Cooper’s Town: Power & Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic (BOOKS), May, 71

Carne-Ross, D. S.

Davenport, Guy

  • The Hunter Gracchus, on the story & fragment “The Hunter Gracchus” by Franz Kafka, Feb., 67;
  • Galumphing back, a review of Lewis Carroll: A Biography by Morton N. Cohen (BOOKS), Mar., 29

Dean, Paul

Dennett, Daniel C.

  • Dennett’s dangerous idea, II (Letter), Mar., 78

Desbordes-Valmore, Marceline

  • Dans la rue (Poem), with facing translation, In the street, by Louis Simpson, Nov., 36;
  • Les roses de Saadi (Poem), with facing translation, The roses of Saadi, by Louis Simpson, Nov., 38;
  • Les séparés (Poem), with facing translation, Apart, by Louis Simpson, Nov., 40;
  • La couronne effeuillée (Poem), with facing translation, Withered laurel, by Louis Simpson, Nov., 42

Downing, Ben

  • Shorter notice of The Alphabetic Labyrinth: The Letters in History & Imagination by Johanna Drucker (BOOKS), Mar., 70

Eaton, Charles Edward

  • The naked truth (Poem), Apr., 38

Epstein, Daniel Mark

Epstein, Joseph

  • Kenneth Tynan: the unshy pornographer, on Kenneth Tynan: Letters edited by Kathleen Tynan, Jan., 10;
  • La Rochefoucauld: maximum maximist, on Falsehood Disguised: Unmasking the Truth in La Rochefoucauld by Richard G. Hodgson, June, 15

Flynn, Daniel J.

  • The canonization of W. E. B. Du Bois on the resurgence of interest in the writer & activist (NOTEBOOK), Apr., 79

Frum, David

Gelernter, David

  • Viollet-le-Duc (Poem), May, 41;
  • You again? (Poem), June, 35

Gioia, Dana

  • Summer storm (Poem), June, 32

Gross, John

Gross, Paul R.

  • Emperor of chemistry, a review of Linus Pauling: A Life in Science & Politics by Ted Goertzel & Ben Goertzel (BOOKS), Dec., 69;
  • Dennett’s dangerous idea (Letter), Feb., 78

Hall, Donald

  • Mighty poets (Poem), Jan., 39;
  • The 440 (Poem), Mar., 28

Herington, John

  • Davenport’s Pleiad, a review of Seven Greeks translated by Guy Davenport (BOOKS), Nov., 69

Jacobs, Laura

  • The legacy of Mr. B, on Robert Garis’s Following Balanchine & recent stagings of the ballets by Suzanne Farrell at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. (DANCE), Dec., 47;
  • Mark Morris at BAM, on two programs danced at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (DANCE), Feb., 45

Jarman, Mark

  • Prayer for our daughters (Poem), May, 40

Johnson, Phillip E.

  • Daniel Dennett’s dangerous idea, on the neo-Darwinian theory of biological evolution, Oct., 9;
  • Reply to Paul R. Gross (Letter), Feb., 79;
  • Reply to Daniel C. Dennett (Letter), Mar., 80

Kagan, Donald

  • Stealing history, a review of Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History by Mary Lefkowitz (BOOKS), Mar., 54

Kennedy, X. J.

  • a review of Selected Poems & Prose of John Davidson & John Davidson, First of the Moderns by John Sloan (BOOKS), Mar., 65

Kimball, Roger

  • Shorter notice of As I Walked Out One Evening by W. H. Auden (BOOKS), Sept., 75;
  • The Robert Hughes medicine show, on Mr. Hughes’s Time magazine cover story “Why America Shouldn’t Kill Cultural Funding” (NOTEBOOK), Sept., 78;
  • Calamities of art, on the problems of the contemporary art world, Nov., 21;
  • The qualities of Robert Musil, on Musil’s career & a new translation of The Man Without Qualities by Sophie Wilkins & Burton Pike, Feb., 10;
  • An update on the culture wars, on Beat Culture & the New America: 1950–1965 at the Whitney Museum, New York & other matters, Mar., 8;
  • Exhibition note on Poussin: Works on Paper, Drawings from the Collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (ART), Mar., 47;
  • Whose Enlightenment is it?, on The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America Is Wracked by Culture Wars, by Todd Gitlin, Apr., 4;
  • Exhibition note on The Grosvenor Gallery: A Palace of Art in Victorian England at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Apr., 46;
  • “Diversity,” “cultural studies” & other mistakes, on the science wars & other matters, May, 4;
  • Will there always be an England?, on the current cultural scene in London, June, 10

Knorr, Katherine

  • Andreï Makine’s poetics of nostalgia, on Le Testement français by Andreï Makine (LETTER FROM PARIS), Mar., 32

Kramer, Hilton

  • Mondrian & mysticism, on Mondrian’s interest in theosophy & its relation to his pictorial abstraction, Sept., 4;
  • Duchamp & his legacy, on a new biography of Duchamp by Jerrold Seigel, Oct., 4;
  • Exhibition note on Alfred Stieglitz at Lake George at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (ART), Nov., 55;
  • Nora Sayre: a progressive “Journey,” on Sayre’s Previous Convictions: A Journey Through the 1950s & the romanticizing of progressivism, Feb., 4;
  • “Abstraction” at the Guggenheim, on Abstraction in the Twentieth Century at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Mar., 4;
  • Exhibition note on The Art of Thomas Wilmer Dewing: Beauty Reconfigured at the Brooklyn Museum (ART), Apr., 48;
  • Picasso: portraits or masks?, on Picasso & Portraiture: Representation & Transformation at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, June, 5

Lang, Berel

Lewis, Tess

  • What the devil said, a review of Aleksander Wat: Life & Art of an Iconoclast by Tomas Venclova (BOOKS), May, 68

Logan, William

  • Elegy (Poem), Oct., 36;
  • Martyrs to language, on recent books of poems by John Ashbery, Adrienne Rich, August Kleinzahler, Billy Collins, Rita Dove, Stanley Kunitz & Elizabeth Spires (VERSE CHRONICLE), Dec., 56;
  • Gravel on the tongue, on recent books of poems by W. S. Merwin, Sharon Olds, Virginia Hamilton Adair, Mark Doty, Louise Glück & Seamus Heaney (VERSE CHRONICLE), June, 57

Lyons, Donald

  • Shorter notice of The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays by Siegfried Kracauer (BOOKS), Sept., 76;
  • Modernist spirits: Apollinaire’s “Alcools,” on a new translation of Alcools by Donald Revell, Dec., 28;
  • A minor Augustan, a review of Auden by Richard Davenport-Hines (BOOKS), May, 74;
  • Englishing the “Odes,” a review of Horace in English edited by D. S. Carne-Ross & Kenneth Haynes (BOOKS), June, 88

McDowell, Robert

  • Emily’s courtship (Poem), Feb., 36

Madden, Andrew P.

  • Andrew Ross (Letter), Jan., 80

Mansfield, Harvey

  • Paterfamilias a review of Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington by Richard Brookhiser (BOOKS), Mar., 62

Morgan, Frederick

  • Rain (Poem), Oct., 34;
  • Nothing (Poem), Oct., 35

Morrone, Francis

  • Algonquin to Zukofski, a review of The Encyclopedia of New York City edited by Kenneth T. Jackson (BOOKS), Nov., 72;
  • O harp & altar, a review of Engineers of Dreams: The Great Bridge Builders & the Spanning of America by Henry Petroski (BOOKS), Apr., 64

Murphy, Timothy

  • Letter to A. D. Hope (Poem), Mar., 30

Naves, Mario

  • “Florine Stettheimer: Manhattan Fantastica,” on an exhibition of Stettheimer’s work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (ART), Sept., 48;
  • The native & the new, on Affinities & Influences: Native American Art & American Modernism at the Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey (ART), Oct., 44;
  • Exhibition note on Bill Jensen at the Mary Boone Gallery, New York (ART), Nov., 54;
  • The pleasure trade: Howard Hodgkin at the Met, on a retrospective of the artist’s work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (ART), Jan., 49;
  • Christopher Wilmarth, on an exhibition of the artist’s work at Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York (ART), Feb., 49;
  • Paris as haven: “Explorations in the City of Light,” on Explorations in the City of Light: African-American Artists in Paris, 1945–1965 at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (ART), Mar., 43;
  • Pus & politics: Kienholz at the Whitney, on an exhibition of the artist’s work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (ART), Apr., 44;
  • Between Paris & the shtetl: Marc Chagall at the Jewish Museum, on Marc Chagall 1907–1917 (ART), May, 48;
  • Glackens, Sloan & friends: the Ashcan artists’ New York, on Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists & Their New York at the New-York Historical Society (ART), June, 48

Notes & Comments

  • The voice of Neoconservatism, on Irving Kristol’s Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea with excerpts from Mr. Kristol’s essays, Sept., 1;
  • Bowdlerizing the Bible, on The New Testament & Psalms: An Inclusive Version published by Oxford University Press, Oct., 1;
  • Tracking the flight from reason, on Andrew Ross, Daniel Lee Kleinman & the new Luddites, Nov., 1;
  • Critics as connoisseurs of . . . what?, on “Gilbert & George: The Naked Shit Pictures,” Nov., 4;
  • Onanastics, anyone?, on a parody of the Lit-Crit establishment & Solitary Pleasures edited by Paula Bennett & Vernon A. Rosario II, Dec., 1;
  • Virtual art, on the computerized Micro Gallery at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, Dec., 3;
  • Georgetown flunks English, on the move away from the classics in Georgetown University’s English curriculum, Jan., 1;
  • Mainstreaming deviancy, on the New York Times Magazine articles on “zines” & the writer Dorothy Allison, Jan., 3;
  • A sign of the times, on the new “Sexual Harrassment Guidelines” at Harvard Law School, Feb., 1;
  • And down in New Haven . . ., on the graduate teaching assistants’ “job action” at Yale University, Feb., 2;
  • Steinerisms revisited, on The Paris Review interview with George Steiner, Mar., 1;
  • Marketing multiculturalism, on The Princeton Handbook of Multicultural Poetries, Mar., 3;
  • The Barnes debacle continues on its destructive course, on the continuing legal battles over turning the Barnes Foundation into a public art gallery, Apr., 1;
  • Mr. Holland capitulates, on music critic Bernard Holland’s review of Rent in The New York Times, Apr., 2;
  • “Redbaiting” reconsidered, on Gary Wills’s & Nicholas von Hoffman’s recent articles on American Communism, May, 1;
  • Professor Sokal’s Transgression, on Alan Sokal’s hoax in Social Text & the responses to it by Andrew Ross & Stanley Fish, June, 1

Ozick, Cythia

  • Saul Bellow’s Broadway, on Bellow’s Upper West Side forty years after the publication of Seize the Day, Sept., 29

Page, Tim

  • Jascha Heifetz, on The Heifetz Collection, a sixty-five disc compilation of the violinist’s recorded works (MUSIC), Sept., 52

Penrose, James F.

  • Pollini plays Beethoven on performances from Beethoven’s sonata cycle at Carnegie Hall by Mauzizio Pollini (MUSIC), Dec., 52;
  • New York obligato, a review of Strong on Music: The New York Music Scene in the Days of George Templeton Strong, Vol. 2 by Vera Brodsky Lawrence (BOOKS), Jan., 69;
  • Two extraordinary pianists, on Earl Wild & Leon Fleisher at Carnegie Hall (MUSIC), Feb., 56;
  • New performances of Schumann, on performances by Evgeny Kissin & Radu Lupu at Carnegie Hall (MUSIC), May, 52

Phillips, Robert

  • Things (Poem), Apr., 36

Prunty, Wyatt

  • Reading before we read, Horoscope & Weather (Poem), Sept., 41

Richardson, James

  • Holes (Poem), June, 36

Richler, Mordecai

Richman, Robert

  • Priestesses together a review of Hunters & Gatherers by Francine Prose (BOOKS), Dec., 73;
  • Old stories & new, a review of The Boy in the Well & Other Poems by Daniel Mark Epstein (BOOKS), Feb., 74;
  • Luminous particulars, a review of Otherwise: New & Selected Poems by Jane Kenyon (BOOKS), May, 76

Sartarelli, Stephen

  • Minding the revolution, a review of Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton by Mark Polizzotti (BOOKS), Sept., 67

Selzer, Richard

  • The body politic, a review of Democracy & DNA: American Dreams & Medical Progress by Gerald Weissmann (BOOKS), Feb., 66

Barr-Sharrar, Beryl

  • Exhibition note on Pergamon: The Telephos Frieze from the Great Altar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (ART), Mar., 45

Silver, Daniel J.

  • Required reading?, a review of Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination & Public Life by Martha C. Nussbaum (BOOKS), Apr., 67

Silvera, Alain

  • Of califs & sultans, a review of The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last Two Thousand Years by Bernard Lewis (BOOKS), June, 81

Simon, John

  • Paul Hindemith: a centenary cenotaph, on Hindemith’s Mathis der Maler at the New York City Opera (MUSIC), Oct., 47;
  • What Gore remembers, on Gore Vidal’s Palimpsest: A Memoir, Dec., 18;
  • Janácek & the Norman conquest, on The Makropulos Case at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York (MUSIC), Feb., 52;
  • A foursquare waltz: “Der Rosenkavalier” at City Opera (MUSIC), Apr., 50;
  • Death fugues: the poems of Paul Celan, on Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew by John Felstiner, May, 28;
  • Reply to J. A. van Sant (Letter), June, 90

Simpson, Louis

  • To a Russian poet (Poem), Sept., 37;
  • Introduction to “Four poems of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore,” Nov., 34;
  • See also Desbordes-Valmore, Marceline

Skloot, Floyd

  • Kokoschka in love, 1914 (Poem), June, 34

Smith, William Jay

  • Imperial Berlin revisited, on the Berlin of Jules Laforgue & Christo’s wrapping of the Reichstag, Oct., 29
  • Tom: the making of “The Glass Menagerie,” a memoir of the playwright (NOTEBOOK), Mar., 72;
  • Scenes of a Russian winter, a memoir of the author as a Fulbright professor at Moscow State University, Apr., 24;
  • Lily in autumn (Poem), May, 39

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr

  • Elena Tsezarevna Chukovskaya, a memoir of the author’s assistant excerpted from Invisible Allies, Nov., 5

Sommers, Christina Hoff

  • Feminist fatale, a review of The Education of a Woman: The Life of Gloria Steinem by Carolyn G. Heilbrun (BOOKS), Oct., 64

Spacks, Barry

  • Worrying the Muse (Poem), Dec., 33

Spires, Elizabeth

  • Fisher Beach (Poem), Sept., 39;
  • Joy & terror: the poems of Josephine Jacobsen, on Jacobsen’s In the Crevice of Time: New & Collected Poems, Nov., 28

Steyn, Mark

  • The good old summertime, on the summer of 1995’s eclectic offerings (THEATER), Sept., 42;
  • Art & tyranny in London, on the political themes in the new plays in London (THEATER), Oct., 38;
  • “Company” & company, on the revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Company & Robert Wilson’s Alice (THEATER), Nov., 44;
  • Dwindling dramatically, on Mrs.Klein, New England & Northeast Local (THEATER), Dec., 36;
  • Relearning the old lessons, on Holiday & other matters (THEATER), Jan., 43;
  • Death of the author, on directors’ versus writers’ theater (THEATER), Feb., 39;
  • Canned laughs, a review of The Paris Review’s humor issue, edited by George Plimpton (BOOKS), Feb., 69;
  • Defects trumpeted as virtues, on Rent at the New York Theatre Workshop & other matters (THEATER), Mar., 37;
  • Pastiche & parody, on Overtime, Below the Belt & Floyd Collins (THEATER), Apr., 39;
  • “Rent” subsidy, on the awarding of the Pulizer in Drama to Rent (THEATER), May, 42;
  • Freaks far-flung & local, on Venus, Buried Child & other plays (THEATER), June, 37;
  • Krazy Kat culture, a review of The Lively Arts: Gilbert Seldes & the Transformation of Cultural Criticism in the United States by Michael Kammen (BOOKS), June, 74

Terzian, Philip

  • War stories, a review of Reporting World War II edited by Samuel Hynes et al. (BOOKS), Sept., 72;
  • Democracy vs. the news, a review of Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy by James Fallows (BOOKS), Apr., 74

Teichman, Jenny

Tillinghast, Richard

  • The indomitable Irishry, a review of Anglo–Irish by Julian Moynahan (BOOKS), Nov., 77;
  • Seamus Heaney’s “middle voice,” on the poetry of Seamus Heaney on the occasion of his winning the Nobel Prize (NOTEBOOK), Dec., 77;
  • Cadences of Aran, a review of John Millington Synge: A Biography by David M. Kiely (BOOKS), June, 78

Tomlinson, Charles

  • Swans (Poem), Oct., 37;
  • Verse (Poem), Mar., 31

Trevor-Roper, H. R.

Tuck, Jim

  • Castle clown: Céline in Sigmaringen, on the French author’s collaborationist credentials, Jan., 20;
  • Marked men, numbered days: French “collabo” writers, on the collaborationist literary figures in wartime France, June, 25

Tuttleton, James W.

  • The sensational Miss Alcott, on A Long Fatal Love Chase & recent anthologies of Alcott’s thrillers, Oct., 15;
  • Demystifying Lincoln, a review of Lincoln by David Herbert Donald (BOOKS), Nov., 65;
  • The achievement of Ralph Ellison, on The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison, Dec., 5;
  • The uses of the Devil, a review of The Death of Satan: How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil by Andrew Delbanco (BOOKS), Jan., 74;
  • The drop too much: Emerson’s eccentric circle, on Emerson Among the Eccentrics: A Group Portrait by Carlos Baker, May, 19;
  • The rehabilitation of Robert Frost, a review of Robert Frost: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers (BOOKS), June, 65

van Sant, J. A.

  • What Gore remembers (Letter), June, 90

Wallace, Ronald

  • Albert’s osprey (Poem), Apr., 35

Wilkin, Karen

  • Brancusi in Paris, on Constantine Brancusi at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Sept., 23;
  • Claude Monet in Chicago, on Claude Monet: 1840–1926 at the Art Institute of Chicago (ART), Nov., 50;
  • Cézanne at the Grand Palais, on an exhibition of the artist’s work in Paris (ART), Dec., 11;
  • The talk of the Salon, a review of Diderot on Art, Vols. 1 & 2 translated by John Goodman (BOOKS), Jan., 60;
  • Vermeer in Washington, on an exhibition of the artist’s work at the National Gallery of Art, Feb., 21;
  • Monsieur Pellerin’s collection: a footnote to “Cézanne,” on a noted collector of Cézanne’s paintings, Apr., 18;
  • Jan Steen in Washington, on Jan Steen: Painter & Storyteller at the National Gallery of Art, Washington (ART), June, 43

Winegarten, Renee

  • Kingdom & exile, a review of The First Man by Albert Camus (BOOKS), Oct., 71

Wolcott, James

  • The last swinger, a review of Sabbath’s Theater by Philip Roth (BOOKS), Sept., 62

Yezzi, David

  • Whither Bynner?, a review of The Selected Witter Bynner & a new life of the poet by James Kraft (BOOKS), Jan., 65;
  • Miss Rat & the artists, a review of Marianne Moore & the Visual Arts: Prismatic Color by Linda Leavell (BOOKS), June, 84

Young, C. Dale

  • Devon House (Poem), Dec., 35

Zarin, Cynthia

  • Mrs. Donleavey (Poem), Dec., 34