Index

The New Criterion

Volume 15

September 1996 – June 1997

Allen, Brooke

  • The drawing-room comedy of Iris Murdoch, on the author’s work & a new novel, Jackson’s Dilemma, Sept., 66;
  • The mimetic brilliance of Angus Wilson, on a new biography of Wilson by Margaret Drabble, Oct., 28;
  • Scheherazade’s exhaustion, on On with the Story by John Barth, After Rain by William Trevor & The Night in Question by Tobias Wolff (FICTION CHRONICLE), Nov., 51;
  • Brownout in the City of Light, a review of The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant (BOOKS), Dec., 69;
  • Rigorously equivocal, a review of One of Us: The Mastery of Joseph Conrad by Geoffrey Galt Harpham (BOOKS), Feb., 66;
  • Brilliantly frivolous, a review of Diaries. Volume I: 1939–1960 by Christopher Isherwood (BOOKS), Mar., 71;
  • Shorter notice of The Letters of Nancy Mitford & Evelyn Waugh edited by Charlotte Mosley (BOOKS), Apr., 75;
  • Devouring love, on The Kiss by Kathyrn Harrison, The Shadow Man by Mary Gordon & The Architect of Desire by Suzannah Lessard (NONFICTION CHRONICLE), May, 64;
  • The Gospel of Norman, a review of The Gospel According to the Son by Norman Mailer (BOOKS), June, 77

Allen, Dick

  • Ferns (Poem), Nov., 31

Applebaum, Anne

  • A dearth of feeling, being the second in a series on “The future of the European past,” Oct., 5;
  • Against the old clichés, a review of Europe: A History by Norman Davies (BOOKS), May, 70

Arkes, Hadley

  • Recasting virtue, a review of Machiavelli’s Virtue by Harvey C. Mansfield (BOOKS), Sept., 123;
  • Jefferson on race & revolution, on The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson & the French Revolution, 1785–1800 by Conor Cruise O’Brien, Jan., 26;
  • Reply to Robert Eden (Letter), Feb., 79

Arkin, Marc M.

  • Expert testimony?, a review of Law’s Stories: Narrative & Rhetoric in the Law edited by Peter Brooks & Paul Gewirtz (BOOKS), Sept., 131;
  • The millennium mill, a review of Omens of the Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams & Resurrection by Harold Bloom (BOOKS), Oct., 59;
  • A see of troubles, a review of Thomas Cranmer: A Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch (BOOKS), Jan., 68

Auchincloss, Louis

Berry, J. Duncan

  • Pevsner’s paradox, a review of Building Paris: Architectural Institutions & the Transformation of the French Capital, 1830–1870 by David Van Zanten (BOOKS), Sept., 134;
  • Semper fidelis, a review of Gottfried Semper: Architect of the Nineteenth Century by Harry Francis Mallgrave (BOOKS), Nov., 69

Birnbaum, Norman

  • On “Partisan Review” (Letter), Nov., 78

Blumenthal, Sidney

  • Blumenthal’s closet (Letter), June, 89

Bowman, James

  • Joe Klein’s tangled web, on Primary Colors & subsequent controversies (THE MEDIA), Sept., 118;
  • The postmodern presidential race, on the political conventions (THE MEDIA), Oct., 54;
  • The spin election, on the presidential debates (THE MEDIA), Nov., 45;
  • A pretense of professionalism, on the journalism industry & the turn against Clinton (THE MEDIA), Dec., 55;
  • The pity of PBS’s “Great War,” on the PBS television series (THE MEDIA), Jan., 54;
  • Triangulating & mau-mauing, on the Ebonics controversy (THE MEDIA), Feb., 53;
  • Lionizing the networks, on ABC’s coverage of the Food Lion story (THE MEDIA), Mar., 60;
  • Ken Burns does Jefferson, on the PBS series Thomas Jefferson directed by Mr. Burns (THE MEDIA), Apr., 53;
  • Religion or the merely kooky?, on the reporting of the Heaven’s Gate suicides (THE MEDIA), May, 59;
  • Pictures from the “Newseum,” on the opening of the “Newseum” in Arlington, Virginia (THE MEDIA), June, 64

Brookhiser, Richard

  • Franklin in Pennsylvania, a review of Benjamin Franklin, Politician: The Mask & the Man by Francis Jennings (BOOKS), Feb., 63

Caryl, Christian

  • German farewells, on the current German self-image & cinema (LETTER FROM BERLIN), Mar., 40;
  • Letter from Moscow, on Russia’s present culture & troubles, May, 32

Clarke, John

  • A truce (Poem), Apr., 36;
  • June night (Poem), Apr., 37

Coleman, Alexander

  • Juilliard plays Stravinsky, on the Juilliard Symphony’s performance at Alice Tully Hall, New York (MUSIC), Apr., 46

Core, George, et al.

  • Joseph Epstein: an open letter (Letter), May, 88

Davenport, Guy

  • “Well up on the far out,” a review of Travels & Other Writings by William Bartram & The Natures of John & William Bartram by Thomas P. Slaughter (BOOKS), Oct., 62;
  • Satyr & family man, a review of Augustus John: The New Biography by Michael Holroyd (BOOKS), Apr., 67

Davis, William Virgil

  • A visit to Manafon (Poem), Apr., 34

Dean, Paul

  • Empedocles at Dover, a review of A Life of Matthew Arnold by Nicholas Murray (BOOKS), Sept., 127;
  • Author? Author?, on Shakespeare’s “Edward III” edited by Eric Sams (BOOKS), Nov., 65;
  • After Edel, a review of Henry James: The Young Master by Sheldon M. Novick (BOOKS), Jan., 60;
  • Empson’s only heir?, a review of Essays in Appreciation by Christopher Ricks (BOOKS), May, 81

Di Piero, W. S.

  • Teenage girl in moonlight (Poem), Oct., 37

Doersch, Charles

  • The Tallis Scholars in New York, on a performance at St. Ignatius Loyola, New York (MUSIC), Apr., 49

Eden, Robert

  • Machiavelli’s virtue (Letter), Feb., 79

Eichman, Erich

  • The end of the affair, on the symposium at NYU on Alan Sokal & the Social Text hoax (NOTEBOOK), Dec., 77

Eliot, T. S.

  • Two early poems (Mandarins & Paysage triste), Dec., 38

Epstein, Daniel Mark

  • The Traveler’s calendar (Poem), Sept., 93;
  • Equinox at Newport Farms (Poem), Sept., 96

Fargue, Léon-Paul

  • Kiosques (Poem), with facing translation, Kiosks, by Louis Simpson, Mar., 35;
  • Romance (Poem), with facing translation, Romance, by Louis Simpson, Mar., 38

Foy, John

  • from Rue des Martyrs (Poem), Feb., 33

Galdieri, Louis V.

  • An American Petronius?, a review of Satyrica translated by R. Bracht (BOOKS), Oct., 64;
  • Shorter notice of The Odyssey translated by Robert Fagles (BOOKS), Mar., 76

Gechtoff, Sonia

  • Ginsberg & company (Letter), June, 90

Giroud, Vincent

  • French “collabo” writers (Letter), Sept., 151

Gross, John

  • Knocking about the ruins, being the fourth in a series on “The future of the European past,” Dec., 4

Gross, Paul R.

  • Ant’s-eye views, a review of In Search of Nature by Edward O. Wilson (BOOKS), Dec., 74

Hadas, Rachel

  • Fleshly answers (Poem), Oct., 40;
  • On that mountain (Poem), Jan., 33

Haines, John

  • The legend (Poem), May, 38

Hart, Jeffrey

  • How good was Auden?, a review of Prose & Travel Books in Prose & Verse. Volume I: 1926–1938 by W. H. Auden (BOOKS), Feb., 59

Henry, Brian

  • Abandoned ship (Poem), June, 38

Herington, John

  • Losing Virgil, a review of Virgil in English edited by K. W. Gransden (BOOKS), Nov., 58;
  • Possessing the golden key, being the sixth in a series on “The future of the European past,” Feb., 4;
  • Response to Theodore Ziolkowski (Letter), Apr., 80

Jacobs, Laura

  • Figures in the carpet, on the state of the arabesque in recent dance (DANCE), Sept., 113;
  • Milken on the beach in China, on Karol Armitage’s The Predators’ Ball: Hucksters of the Soul (DANCE), Dec., 52;
  • Misha: impossible, on Mikhail Baryshnikov & White Oak Dance Project at BAM (DANCE), May, 55

Johnston, William E., Jr.

  • Letter from London (Letter), Sept., 149

Justice, Donald

Kennedy, X. J.

  • Curiouser & curiouser, a review of a new biography of W. S. Gilbert by Jane W. Stedman & The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan edited by Ian Bradley (BOOKS), Jan., 72

Kimball, Roger

  • “The Killing of History”: why relativism is wrong, on The Killing of History by Keith Windschuttle, Sept., 22;
  • Reply to Willaim E. Johnston, Jr. (Letter), Sept., 149;
  • The Sixties according to Paul Berman, on A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968 by Paul Berman, Oct., 17;
  • David Denby goes to school, on Great Books by David Denby, Nov., 14;
  • Corot in New York, on Corot at the Metropolitan Museum of Art & other recent exhibitions of the artist’s work, Dec., 14;
  • “The Repeal of Reticence,” on The Repeal of Reticence by Rochelle Gurstein, Jan., 20;
  • The importance of T. E. Hulme, on The Collected Writings of T. E. Hulme edited by Karen Csengeri, Feb., 18;
  • Who was David Stove?, on the Australian philosopher & his work, Mar., 21;
  • The distinguished professor, on Jane Gallop & her book Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment, Apr., 21;
  • Shorter notice of The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné by John Rewald (BOOKS), Apr., 74;
  • C. J. Herington: an homage, May, 12;
  • Reply to Thomas Short (Letter), May, 86;
  • Experiments against reality, being the tenth in a series on “The future of the European past,” June, 4;
  • Exhibition note on The Human Form Divine: William Blake from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (ART), June, 55

Kramer, Hilton

  • Reflections on the history of “Partisan Review,” on A Partisan Century: Political Writings from Partisan Review edited by Edith Kurzweil, Sept., 15;
  • Menzel, Meier-Graefe & the problem of German art, on Adolph Menzel 1815–1905: Between Romanticism & Impressionism at the National Gallery of Art, Washington (ART), Oct., 51;
  • Degas in Chicago, on Degas: Beyond Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov., 19;
  • Bloomsbury revised: a “postmodern” Roger Fry, on A Roger Fry Reader edited by Christopher Reed, Jan., 14;
  • Whittaker Chambers: the judgment of history, on Whittaker Chambers: A Biography by Sam Tanenhaus, Feb., 13;
  • Elegance in mourning: Georges Braque in London, on the show of late works at the Royal Academy of Arts, Mar., 17;
  • The age of émigrés, on Exiles & Emigrés: The Flight of European Artists from Hitler at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Apr., 17;
  • The postmodern assault, being the ninth in a series on “The future of the European past,” May, 4;
  • Exhibition note on Odd Nerdrum: Paintings at the Forum Gallery, New York (ART), June, 56

Kunitz, Daniel

  • Shorter notice of Dylan Thomas: His Life & Work by John Ackerman (BOOKS), Sept., 143

Laforgue, Jules

  • Autre complainte (Poem), with facing translation, Another complaint, by Louis Simpson, Sept., 82;
  • Légende (Poem), with facing translation, Legend, by Louis Simpson, Sept., 84

Levin, Phillis

  • Cumulus (Poem), Jan., 35

Lewis, Michael J.

  • Homer, Hopper & the critics, on recent exhibitions of these artists’ work & Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography by Gail Levin, Sept., 74;
  • Robert Hughes’s Amerika, on Hughes’s latest book & PBS television series, American Visions, June, 14

Lloyd-Jones, Hugh

  • Cicerones in a minefield, a review of The Oxford Classical Dictionary edited by Simon Hornblower & Antony Spawforth (BOOKS), Apr., 64

Logan, William

  • Old guys, on recent books by Charles Simic, A. R. Ammons, Robert Hass, C. K. Williams, Joseph Brodsky & Anthony Hecht (VERSE CHRONICLE), Dec., 61;
  • Not so innocent eyes, a review of Exchanging Hats: Paintings by Elizabeth Bishop (BOOKS), Mar., 74;
  • Hardscrabble country, on recent books by Charles Wright, Michael Lind, Mary Oliver, Robert Bly, Les Murray & Edgar Bowers (VERSE CHRONICLE), June, 69

Lyons, Donald

  • Shorter notice of A Greek-English Lexicon. Ninth Edition, with a Revised Supplement, 1996 compiled by Henry George Liddell & Robert Scott (BOOKS), Sept., 141;
  • The second English epic, a review of Alexander Pope’s translation of The Iliad edited by Steven Shankman (BOOKS), Oct., 69

Mac Donald, Heather

Martin, Henry

  • The eclipse of listening (Letter), June, 89

Mason, David

  • Night squall (Poem), Nov., 30

Matory, J. Lorand

  • Knowledge--or ghettoization? (Letter), Feb., 77

Meyers, Jeffrey

  • Frost’s rehabilitation (Letter), Sept., 150

Morgan, Frederick

  • The return (Poem), Sept., 90;
  • In transit (Poem), Sept., 91;
  • The clock (Poem), Sept., 92

Morrone, Francis

  • New York’s library in cyberspace, on the N.Y. Public Library’s new Science, Industry & Business Library (NOTEBOOK), Jan., 76;
  • The way Olmsted saw, on Viewing Olmsted: Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander & Geoffrey James at the Equitable Gallery, New York (PHOTOGRAPHY), Apr., 41

Mount, Ferdinand

  • A devitalized wariness, being the fifth in a series on “The future of the European past,” Jan., 4

Murray-Brown, Jeremy

  • “Such talents, such a mess,” a review of Charlie Chaplin & His Times by Kenneth S. Lynn (BOOKS), Apr., 69

Naves, Mario

  • Is there Meret beyond the teacup?, on Meret Oppenheim at the Guggenheim Museum, New York (ART), Sept., 110;
  • Later visions: “Giorgio de Chirico & America,” on the exhibition at the Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, New York (ART), Nov., 42;
  • No fuss or muss: Ellsworth Kelly in the rotunda, on the retrospective of the artist’s work at the Guggenheim Museum, New York (ART), Dec., 49;
  • Richard Lindner: a New Yorker in Washington, on the exhibition of the artist’s work at the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington (ART), Jan., 47;
  • Romare Bearden at the Whitney (ART), Mar., 57;
  • Willem de Kooning’s late paintings, on the exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (ART), Apr., 38;
  • A daughter of Dada: Hannah Höch at MOMA (ART), May, 51;
  • Promising signs, on recent exhibitions by Oscar Bluemner, Richard Stankiewicz & others (ART), June, 48

Notes & Comments

  • “Judgment is forced upon us by experience,” on the fifteenth anniversary of The New Criterion, Sept., 1;
  • Poetry & tradition, on poetry & poetry criticism in The New Criterion, Sept., 2;
  • The future of the European past, on the inauguration of a series of articles concerning the future of Europe’s history & culture, Sept., 3;
  • Memo to our critics on the Left: a little more candor, please & a little less paranoia, on Peter Brooks & the Bass grant at Yale, Oct., 1;
  • Protecting a legacy, on Anne Applebaum’s essay in “The future of the European past” series, Oct., 2;
  • The myths of “The West,” on James W. Tuttleton’s review of the PBS series, Oct., 3;
  • Legislating history, on Governor Pataki’s legislation regulating the teaching of the Irish Potato Famine as deliberately caused by the British, Nov., 1;
  • Nothing sacred, on Andres Serrano’s jacket art for the reissue of Richmond Lattimore’s translation of the New Testament, Nov., 3;
  • “The eclipse of listening,” on Roger Scruton’s essay in “The future of the European past” series, Nov., 3;
  • Knowledge--or ghettoization?, on the Afro-American studies department at Harvard, Dec., 1;
  • Multiculturalism as campus orthodoxy, on the policy at UMass Amherst establishing “contributions to multiculturalism” as a measure of faculty performance, Dec., 2;
  • Standardizing the substandard, on the “Standards for English Language Arts” set by the National Council of Teachers of English, Jan., 1;
  • Upchucking for art--or was it “speech” the fellow vomited upon Mondrian & Dufy?, on an Ontario art student’s vandalism of two paintings in the name of art, Jan., 3;
  • Academic whorehouses, on the National Alumni Forum’s report The Shakespeare File: What English Majors Are Really Studying, Feb., 1;
  • Annals of liberal prejudice, on Sara Rimer’s article in The New York Times on Dartmouth & The Dartmouth Review, Feb., 3;
  • Reply to J. Lorand Matory (Letter), Feb., 78;
  • The bureaucratic superhighway, on “computer literacy” & education, Mar., 1;
  • Accentuating the negative, on an article in the London Sunday Times on vicars who can’t remember the Ten Commandments, Mar., 2;
  • “The Cold War & the Closet,” or, How to review a book “The New Yorker” wants to kill, on Sidney Blumenthal’s review of Whittaker Chambers: A Biography, Apr., 1;
  • Speaking of Sidney Blumenthal . . ., on the media attack on Radical Son by David Horowitz, Apr., 2;
  • A baneful influence, on the death of Allen Ginsberg, May, 1;
  • PEN’s iron curtain, on PEN’s refusal to release materials to Susan Sontag’s biographer (Carl Rollyson), May, 2;
  • Attitudes toward literary excellence, on James Atlas’s farewell to serious literature & Pico Iyer’s Tropical Classical, June, 1;
  • Outing the truth at the “Times,” on The New York Times’s slip on “affirmative action,” June, 3

O’Sullivan, John

Penrose, James F.

  • Harnoncourt conducts Beethoven, on Nikolaus Harnoncourt & the Chamber Orchestra of Europe at Carnegie Hall, New York (MUSIC), Jan., 50;
  • Master of decadence, on Wagner’s Ring at the Metropolitan Opera (MUSIC), June, 58

Pinsker, Sanford

  • Satirist as Sisyphus, a review of The Diaries of Dawn Powell, 1931–1965 edited by Tim Page (BOOKS), Oct., 67

Prunty, Wyatt

  • Etude on a music stand (Poem), Nov., 29

Pryce-Jones, David

  • Ancient ghosts stir, being the first in a series on “The future of the European past,” Sept., 5

Richler, Mordecai

Richman, Robert

  • George Mackay Brown, 1921–1996, on the life & work of the Scottish poet (NOTEBOOK), Sept., 145;
  • Shorter notice of The Master Letters by Lucie Brock-Broido (BOOKS), Oct., 72;
  • Edwin Muir’s journey, on the Scottish poet & his work, Apr., 26

Rollyson, Carl

  • PEN’s iron curtain (NOTES & COMMENTS), May, 2

Ruden, Sarah

  • The silence in South Africa: writers chuck it in, on the state of literature in South Africa (LETTER FROM CAPE TOWN), Feb., 35

Scheuermann, Mona

Schmitt, Peter

  • Renewing the vows (Poem), Jan., 34

Schwendener, Peter

  • Precincts of elsewhere, a review of Dewey Defeats Truman by Thomas Mallon (BOOKS), Dec., 72;
  • North by northeast, a review of The Friends of Freeland by Brad Leithauser (BOOKS), June, 86

Scruton, Roger

  • The eclipse of listening, being the third in a series on “The future of the European past,” Nov., 5

Short, Thomas

  • Who was David Stove? (Letter), May, 85

Shreve, Georgia

  • Walking with my son (Poem), June, 34

Silver, Daniel J.

  • John Gray’s big idea, a review of Isaiah Berlin by John Gray (BOOKS), Nov., 62

Simon, John

  • The multicultural Muse, on The Best American Poetry 1996 edited by Adrienne Rich, Sept., 42;
  • Portraits & spells: the mad genius of Antonin Artaud, on an exhibition of Artaud’s artwork at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (ART), Nov., 37;
  • Reply to Stephen Yenser (Letter), Nov., 80;
  • Supreme nonfiction, a review of Walking Possession: Essays & Reviews, 1969–1993 by Ian Hamilton (BOOKS), Jan., 63;
  • Thoroughly modern Burchfield, a review of The New Fowler’s Modern English Usage edited by R. W. Burchfield (BOOKS), Mar., 66

Simpson, Louis

  • Introduction to “Two poems by Jules Laforgue,” Sept., 81;
  • See also Laforgue, Jules
  • Introduction to “Two poems by Léon-Paul Fargue,” Mar., 35;
  • See also Fargue, Léon-Paul

Smith, William Jay

  • Happiness (Poem), Feb., 31;
  • The shipwreck (Poem), Feb., 32

Spires, Elizabeth

  • “In heaven it is always autumn” (Poem), Sept., 97

Stepanchev, Stephen

  • Leaving Sarajevo (Poem), Jan., 32

Steyn, Mark

  • The imposture of “Martin Guerre,” on Martin Guerre & other plays (THEATER), Sept., 98;
  • Beckett & the Broadway playwright, on Eugene O’Neill’s Hughie, a Beckett festival & other plays (THEATER), Oct.,41;
  • Politics & the “Pinteresque,” on Ashes to Ashes & other plays (THEATER), Nov., 32;
  • Two cheers for Andrew Lloyd Webber, a defense of the composer & a review of Randy Newman’s Faust (THEATER), Dec., 43;
  • Death by subtext, on Chicago, Present Laughter & The Rehearsal (THEATER), Jan., 36;
  • Adaptable properties, on The Waste Land & Ragtime (THEATER), Feb., 40;
  • A lose-lose proposition, on the August Wilson/Robert Brustein debate (THEATER), Mar., 46;
  • Present-tense culture, being the eighth in a series on “The future of the European past,” Apr., 5;
  • Stonewall Jackson slept here, on Stonewall Jackson’s House & Play On! (THEATER), May, 41;
  • Airbrushed imperfections, on Titanic, An American Daughter & other plays (THEATER), June, 43

Tarver, J. Ben

  • Pride & shame (Letter), Apr., 78

Teachout, Terry

  • A devitalized wariness (Letter), Apr., 80

Tillinghast, Richard

Tuck, Jim

  • Reply to Vincent Giroud (Letter), Sept., 151

Tuttleton, James W.

  • Mark Twain: more “tears & flapdoodle,” on Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Comprehensive Edition, Sept., 59;
  • Reply to Jeffrey Meyers (Letter), Sept., 150;
  • Pride & shame: the winning of the West, on the PBS series The West directed by Stephen Ives, Oct., 23;
  • Melville in the try-pots, on Melville: A Biography by Laurie Robertson-Lorant & Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume I: 1819–1851 by Hershel Parker, Dec., 23;
  • Recovering Washington, a review of George Washington: Writings edited by John Rhodehamel (BOOKS), Apr., 59;
  • Reply to J. Ben Tarver (Letter), Apr., 78;
  • Idylls of old Newark, a review of American Pastoral by Philip Roth (BOOKS), May, 74;
  • An expert noticer, a review of The Actual by Saul Bellow (BOOKS), June, 80

Waldron, Arthur

  • From ancient grudge, on The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War edited by Robert B. Strassler (BOOKS), June, 83

West, Diana

  • The terrible teens, a review of Teenagers: An American History by Grace Palladino (BOOKS), Sept., 138

Wilkin, Karen

  • “The realest thing I had ever done”: Andrew Forge in New Haven, on a retrospective of the artist’s work at the Yale Center for British Art (ART), Sept., 105;
  • The trouble with Renoir, on an exhibition of the artist’s work at the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown (ART), Oct., 46;
  • La Tour in Washington, on an exhibition of the artist’s work at the National Gallery of Art, Washington (ART), Nov., 23;
  • Max Beckmann at the Guggenheim (ART), Dec., 31;
  • Matisse in Manhattan, on “Henri Matisse: A Survey of Drawings” at C&M Arts, New York (ART), Jan., 41;
  • Picasso: from “Les Demoiselles” to “Parade,” on A Life of Picasso. Volume II: 1907–1917, The Painter of Modern Life by John Richardson with Marilyn McCully (ART), Feb., 46;
  • Giambattista Tiepolo at the Met (ART), Mar., 52;
  • “The Glory of Byzantium” at the Met (ART), May, 46;
  • Discovering Lovis Corinth, on the exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum (ART), June, 51

Windschuttle, Keith

  • The real stuff of history, being the seventh in a series on “The future of the European past,” Mar., 4;
  • Edward Gibbon & the Enlightenment, on The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, June, 20

Winegarten, Renee

  • “Women & politics: Madame de Genlis,” on the career of the writer, teacher & activist, Sept., 50;
  • Spanish notebook, on the arts in post-Franco Spain (Spanish notebook), Mar., 29;

Yenser, Stephen

  • Merrill’s “b o d y” (Letter), Nov., 78

Yezzi, David

  • Shorter notice of Aleksandr Blok: A Life, by Nina Berberova (BOOKS), Oct., 73;
  • Introduction to “Two early poems by T. S. Eliot,” Dec., 37;
  • Shorter notice of Ibsen’s Brand translated by Geoffrey Hill (BOOKS), Mar., 78;
  • The seriousness of Yvor Winters, on the poet-critic’s life & work, June, 26

Zilles, Luke

  • It is snowing (Poem), June, 36;
  • Strictly, (Poem), June, 37

Ziolkowski, Theodore

  • Virgil in translation (Letter), Apr., 80