Index

The New Criterion

Volume 16

September 1997 – June 1998

Allen, Brooke

  • Period ironies, a review of Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon (BOOKS), Sept., 68;
  • Accented vernacular, a review of The Complete Stories by Bernard Malamud (BOOKS), Oct., 71;
  • Complexity & contradiction: Virginia Woolf & George Eliot, on the publication of Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee & George Eliot: A Life by Rosemary Ashton, Nov., 25;
  • Violating the cardinal rules, a review of Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology edited by Paula Geyh, Fred G. Leebron & Andrew Levy (Fiction chronicle), Dec., 60;
  • An elusive acquaintance, a review of Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin (BOOKS), Feb., 74;
  • The better James Baldwin, on the Library of America edition of Baldwin’s essays & early novels, edited by Toni Morrison, Apr., 29;
  • Creating a führer, on The Smithsonian Institution by Gore Vidal & Making History by Stephen Fry (Fiction chronicle), May, 55;
  • Bad marriages, a review of The Springs of Affection: Stories of Dublin by Maeve Brennan (BOOKS), June, 81;
  • Reply to John J. Covolo (Letter), June, 90

Arkes, Hadley

Arkin, Marc M.

  • The irony of it all, a review of Modern American Religion by Martin M. Marty (BOOKS), Jan., 64;
  • Little Kazin & big God, a review of God & the American Writer by Alfred Kazin (BOOKS), Mar., 69;
  • Radical moderation, a review of Beyond All Reason: The Radical Assault on Truth in American Law by Daniel A. Farber & Suzanna Sherry (BOOKS), May, 65

Baudelaire, Charles

  • Correspondances (Poem), with facing translation, Correspondences, by Louis Simpson, Sept., 34;
  • Le cygne (Poem), with facing translation, The swan, by Louis Simpson, Sept., 36

Benardete, Seth

  • Plato, true & false a review of Plato: Complete Works edited by John M. Cooper (BOOKS), Feb., 70

Bentley, Eric

  • Stonewall Jackson slept here (Letter), Sept., 79;
  • Rebecca West (Letter), June, 89

Bernstein, Jeremy

Berry, J. Duncan

  • Reaping what is Soane, a review of Sir John Soane: Enlightenment Thought & the Royal Academy Lectures by David Watkin (BOOKS), Nov., 73;
  • A Richardson round-up, a review of Henry Hobson Richardson & the Small Public Library in America: A Study in Typology by Kenneth A. Breisch, Henry Hobson Richardson: A Genius for Architecture by Margaret Henderson Floyd & Living Architecture: A Biography of H. H. Richardson by James F. O’Gorman (BOOKS), Apr., 67;
  • A vibrant Teutonic strain, a review of The Werkbund: Design Theory & Mass Culture Before the First World War by Frederic J. Schwartz (BOOKS), June, 80

Blasing, Randy

  • Toward an anniversary (Poem), Jan., 29

Blitzer, Charles

  • Open Letter (Letter), Sept., 78

Bowman, James

  • Overrating TV, on the television rating system (THE MEDIA), Sept., 56;
  • Diana week, on the media flurry surrounding Princess Diana’s death (THE MEDIA), Oct., 60;
  • Promises, promises, on the Promise Keepers’ rally in Washington, D.C. (THE MEDIA), Nov., 54;
  • The morality of the wasteland, on Ellen DeGeneres & the television as a perceived instrument of moral influence (THE MEDIA), Dec., 55;
  • Flipping our Whigs, on “The Fifties,” The Kennedy Center Honors & Paul Simon’s Capeman (THE MEDIA), Jan., 51;
  • “Washington Post” mortem, on integrity, concerned journalists & The Washington Post’s holiday headlines (THE MEDIA), Feb., 61;
  • Down on Clinton, on the press coverage of recent presidential scandals (THE MEDIA), Mar., 53;
  • Nonpartisan review, on the journalistic pretense of nonpartisanship (THE MEDIA), Apr., 56;
  • Sorry about that, on Clinton’s “contrition tour” (THE MEDIA), May, 50;
  • Politics about nothing, on recent developments in the tobacco wars (THE MEDIA), June, 57

Brock, Geoffrey

  • Introduction to “Six poems by Umberto Saba,” Feb., 35;
  • See also Saba, Umberto

Carne-Ross, D. S.

  • Horace transplanted, a review of The Odes of Horace translated by David Ferry (BOOKS), Jan., 56

Chavis, Howard J.

  • Wilhelm Reich (Letter), Mar., 79

Cohen, David

  • Letter from London: Charles Saatchi’s YBA’s, on Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (Notebook), Dec., 78;
  • Exhibition note on Jake Berthot: New Paintings & Drawings at the McKee gallery, New York (ART), Feb., 47

Coleman, Alexander

  • The Virgilian agenda, a consideration of the composer on the publication of Virgil Thomson: Composer on the Aisle by Anthony Tommasini (MUSIC), Sept., 49;
  • Sviatoslav Richter, 1915–1997, a commemoration of the renowned pianist (Notebook), Oct., 78;
  • At City Opera: a warhorse & a dark horse, on the City Opera season & Dvorak’s day at St. George’s Church, Nov., 50;
  • The Sibelius question, on the London Symphony Orchestra’s performances of Sibelius at Avery Fisher Hall & “The Sibelius Symposium” at the Stanley Kaplan Penthouse, Lincoln Center, New York (MUSIC), Feb., 51;
  • Alicia de Larrocha at Carnegie Hall, on a recent performance by the Spanish pianist (MUSIC), May, 43

Covolo, John J.

  • Forster’s women (Letter), June, 90

Dean, Paul

  • “The consecration of the heart”: Ronald Knox reconsidered, Sept., 26;
  • Shakespeare’s one poem, a review of The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Edition edited by Stephen Greenblatt et al. (BOOKS), Nov., 70
  • Abiding questions, a review of The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets by Helen Vendler & Shakespeare’s Sonnets edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones (BOOKS), Jan., 68

Downing, Ben

  • Shorter notice of The Quest for Corvo: An Experiment in Biography by A. J. A. Symons (BOOKS), Sept., 74;
  • An old gypsy nature, a review of Selected Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson edited by Ernest Mehew (BOOKS), June, 69

Epstein, Joseph

  • Monsieur Proust’s masterwork, reflections on Proust occasioned by the publication of The Year of Reading Proust: A Memoir in Real Time by Phyllis Rose & How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel by Alain de Botton, Apr., 19

Foy, John

  • The disappearance of Saint-Exupéry (Poem), May, 25

Galdieri, Louis V.

  • Apollonius now, a review of The Argonautika translated & with an introduction, commentary & glossary by Peter Green (BOOKS), Mar., 67

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

  • “Ein Quidam sagt . . .” (Poem), with facing translation, “Herr X says . . .”, by Martin Greenberg, May, 26;
  • “Vo, Vater hab ich die Statur . . .” (Poem), with facing translation, “From father I get my physique . . .”, by Martin Greenberg, May, 26

Greenberg, Martin

  • see Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Gross, John

Gross, Paul R.

  • Blockbuster homiletics, a review of Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life & Death at the Brink of the Millennium by Carl Sagan (BOOKS), Oct., 69

Haack, Susan

  • Vulgar Rortyism, a review of Pragmatism: A Reader, edited by Louis Menand (BOOKS), Nov., 67

Hall, Donald

  • The Gallery (Poem), Nov., 33;
  • After nine months (Poem), Nov., 34;
  • Independence Day (Poem), Nov., 35

Hammond, Mary Stewart

  • The GWB in the rain (Poem), Mar., 36

Hart, Jeffrey

  • Lionel Trilling in the classroom (Notebook), May, 74

Heyman, I. Michael

  • The Smithsonian today (Letter), Sept., 80

Hornik, Jessica

  • Brilliant (Poem), Dec., 34

Jacobs, Laura

  • Frederick Ashton’s England, on Secret Muses: The Life of Frederick Ashton by Julie Kavanagh (DANCE), Oct., 54;
  • Computer games: Merce Cunningham at BAM, on Cunningham, Merce: Forward & Reverse at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (DANCE), Dec., 46;
  • Balanchine’s castle, on Jewels at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, Mar., 25

Johnson, Lawrence A.

  • Chicago’s new sound, on the opening concert at Chicago’s Symphony Center (MUSIC), Jan., 45;
  • Concert note on Amistad by Anthony Davis & Thulani Davis at the Lyric Opera of Chicago (MUSIC), Feb., 56;
  • Concert note on the recital by Bryn Terfel at Symphony Center, Chicago (MUSIC), May, 47

Justice, Donald

  • Couplets (Poem), Oct., 42

Kimball, Roger

  • Virtue gone mad, being the first in a series titled “Reflections on a cultural revolution,” Sept., 4;
  • A gospel of emancipation, being the second in a series titled “Reflections on a cultural revolution,” Oct., 4;
  • Norman Mailer’s American dream, being the third in a series titled “Reflections on a cultural revolution,” Nov., 4;
  • The new museum: entertainment or political theater?, on the symposium Reimagining Museums for New Art at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts (Notebook), Nov., 77;
  • The marriage of Marx & Freud, being the fourth in a series titled “Reflections on a cultural revolution,” Dec., 4;
  • The liberal capitulation, being the fifth in a series titled “Reflections on a cultural revolution,” Jan., 4;
  • The new sensibility, being the sixth in a series titled “Reflections on a cultural revolution,” Feb., 5;
  • The politics of delegitimation, being the seventh in a series titled “Reflections on a cultural revolution,” Mar., 4;
  • Reply to Howard J. Chavis (Letter), Mar., 80;
  • A nostalgia for Molotovs: “The New York Review,” being the eighth in a series titled “Reflections on a cultural revolution,” Apr., 4;
  • The project of rejuvenilization, being the ninth in a series titled “Reflections on a cultural revolution,” May, 4;
  • Emotions of virtue, being the tenth in a series titled “Reflections on a cultural revolution,” June, 5

Knorr, Katherine

  • The destruction of Paris, on recent developments in Paris architecture & their harmful effects on the city, Jan., 16;
  • Poet of Paris Streets, a review of Léon-Paul Fargue by Jean-Paul Goujon (BOOKS), Apr., 71

Kramer, Hilton

  • Abstraction & utopia, on the politics of abstract art in De Stijl, Sept., 12;
  • Abstraction & utopia, II, on the politics of abstract art in Russia & the Bauhaus, Oct., 12;
  • “The Blacklist & the Cold War” revisited, a reprinting of Mr. Kramer’s 1976 article published in The New York Times, Nov., 11;
  • Telling lies about history: “The Fifties” on television, on the series directed by Alex Gibney & Tracy Dahlby, based on the book of the same title by David Halberstam, Jan., 12;
  • Exhibition note on Stanley Spencer: An English Vision at the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C. (ART), Jan., 43;
  • Léger’s modernism, on Fernand Léger at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Mar., 11

Kronen, Steve

  • One wind (Poem), Jan., 31

Kunitz, Daniel

  • Shorter notice of Meter in English: A Critical Engagement edited by David Baker, (BOOKS), Sept., 75;
  • Reply to Robert Wallace (Letter), Jan., 80

Levin, Phillis

  • Ontological (Poem), Oct., 38

Lewis, Michael J.

  • Two of the Eight, a review of Revolutionaries of Realism: The Letters of John Sloan & Robert Henri edited by Bennard B. Perlman (BOOKS), Sept., 65;
  • Architecture & activism: a tale of two cities, on the symposium Reassessing ’68 in New York & Paris: Activism, Architecture & the Academy at Columbia University (Notebook), June, 85

Lewis, Tess

  • Postwar solipsisms, a review of The Reader by Bernhard Schlink, translated by Caro Brown Janeway & Last Trolley from Beethovenstraat by Grete Weil, translated by John Barret (BOOKS), Dec., 74

Logan, William

  • Betrayals of the tongue, on Canaan by Geoffrey Hill, The Errancy by Jorie Graham, The Poems of J. V. Cunningham edited by Timothy Steele, Tales from Ovid by Ted Hughes & The Collected Poems of Amy Clampitt (Verse chronicle), Nov., 59;
  • The old burial ground (Poem), May, 23;
  • Soiled desires, on Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes, Wakefulness by John Ashbery, Desire by Frank Bidart, The Engrafted Word by Karl Kirchwey, Going Fast by Frederick Seidel & Green Sees Things in Waves by August Kleinzahler (Verse chronicle), June, 61

Lyons, Donald

  • Nabokov in America, on the three-volume Vladimir Nabokov published by the Library of America, Dec., 18;
  • Wallace Stevens’s real world, on Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry & Prose published by the Library of America, edited by Frank Kermode & Joan Richardson, Feb., 23;
  • The sense of Gertrude Stein, on the two-volume Gertrude Stein published by the Library of America, edited by Catharine R. Stimpson & Harriet Chessman, May, 11

Mac Donald, Heather

  • Reply to I. Michael Heyman (Letter), Sept., 80

Mason, David

  • A meaning made of trees (Poem), Mar., 32

Michelangelo

  • 151 (Poem), with facing translation by John Frederick Nims, Apr., 38;
  • 236 (Poem), with facing translation by John Frederick Nims, Apr., 38;
  • 239 (Poem), with facing translation by John Frederick Nims, Apr., 40;
  • 241 (Poem), with facing translation by John Frederick Nims, Apr., 40

Mermelstein, David

  • Concert note on Palestrina by Hans Pfitzner, in a production by the Royal Opera at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York (MUSIC), Sept., 53;
  • Music note on Manon by Jules Massenet, at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York (MUSIC), Dec., 53;
  • Concert note on Pelléas et Mélisande by Claude Debussy at the War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco (MUSIC), Jan., 47;
  • Concert note on Le martyre de Saint Sébastien by Claude Debussy, performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles (MUSIC), Feb., 58;
  • Concert note on the recital by Ian Bostridge at Hertz Hall, Berkeley, California (MUSIC), May, 46

Morrone, Francis

  • Back in the Loop a review of The Architects & the City: Holabird & Roche of Chicago by Robert Bruegmann (BOOKS), Jan., 60;
  • More smirk than Smirke: Colin Wilson’s new British Library (Notebook), Apr., 75

Musgrove, Jonathan

  • Mule (Poem), Dec., 35;
  • Broadcast (Poem), Dec., 36

Naves, Mario

  • Masterpieces & mishmash: “Objects of Desire” at MOMA on the exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (ART), Sept., 46;
  • A world without distinctions: Rauschenberg at the Guggenheim, on a retrospective of the artist’s work (ART), Nov., 47;
  • Persevering in paint: Steve Wheeler & Thomas Nozkowski, on Steve Wheeler: The Oracle Visiting the Twentieth Century at the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey & Thomas Nozkowski: Twenty-Four Paintings at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (ART), Dec., 42;
  • Richard Diebenkorn at the Whitney (ART), Jan., 39;
  • Talking at cross purposes: Piet Mondrian & Ad Reinhardt, on Mondrian & Reinhardt: Influence & Affinity at PaceWildenstein, New York (ART), Feb., 45;
  • Levelheaded mysticism: Arthur Dove at the Whitney (ART), Mar., 50;
  • Robert Delaunay at the Guggenheim on Visions of Paris: Robert Delaunay’s Series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (ART), Apr., 53;
  • An ongoing viability, on recent exhibitions by Chuck Close & other painters (ART), May, 40;
  • Soutine at the Jewish Museum, on An Expressionist in Paris: The Paintings of Chaim Soutine at the Jewish Museum, New York (ART), June, 50

Nims, John Frederick

  • Introduction to “Four poems by Michelangelo,” Apr., 37;
  • See also Michelangelo

NOTES & COMMENTS

  • A Rich Harvest of Muddle, on Adrienne Rich’s refusal of the National Medal for the Arts, Sept., 1;
  • America’s cultural revolution, marking the beginning of the series “Reflections on a cultural revolution” by Roger Kimball, Sept., 3;
  • A “miracle” of the “Times,” on an article in The New York Times Magazine regarding Frank Gehry’s design for the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, Oct., 1;
  • From the archives of the academy, an excerpt from Balancing the Demand with the Delight: Preparing the English Professional at Cornell, Oct., 3;
  • The NEA & the adversary culture, on Jane Alexander’s departure from the National Endowment for the Arts, Nov., 1;
  • SUNY’s carnival of perversity, on Revolting Behavior: The Challenges of Women’s Sexual Freedom & Subject to Desire: Refiguring the Body at SUNY New Paltz, Nov., 3;
  • Intellectual frontiers, Roger Bowen & The New York Times defend SUNY’s Revolting Behavior & Subject to Desire conferences, Dec., 1;
  • Meanwhile, back at Yale . . ., more about the Bass grant & Western culture at Yale, Dec., 3;
  • “God Decentralized,” on The New York Times Magazine’s special December 7 issue on religion, Jan., 1;
  • Privileging the contemporary, on the expansion of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Jan., 3;
  • Abolish women’s studies, on the academy & political interest, Feb., 1;
  • Philippe de Montebello at the MET, on Mr. Montebello’s appointment as the museum’s chief executive, Feb., 3;
  • Stanford’s stairways to nowhere, on Stanford’s new Presidential Lectures & Symposia in the Humanities & Arts, Mar., 1;
  • The decline of “Civilization,” on guest editors at the magazine of the Library of Congress, Mar., 3;
  • Correction, on Philippe de Montebello’s position at the Met, Mar., 3;
  • Democratic despotism, I, on the legal shielding of students’ records from college admissions boards, Apr., 1;
  • Democratic despotism, II, on politically correct reading lists in San Francisco schools, Apr., 2;
  • A ray of hope?, on the founding of the Historical Society, Apr., 3;
  • The Dodo’s revenge, on the Pulitzer Prizes, May, 1;
  • “The Hudson Review” at 50, May, 2;
  • “Modern Painters,” R.I.P., comments occasioned by the New York issue of Modern Painters, May, 3;
  • Marxism as farce, on the recent edition of\ The Communist Manifesto by Verso, June, 1;
  • Weirdo studies 101, on the women’s studies program at Yale University, June, 3

Ormsby, Eric

  • Prague of a hundred towers, a review of Prague in Black & Gold by Peter Demetz (BOOKS), Mar., 59;
  • Proved upon the pulse, a review of Keats by Andrew Motion (BOOKS), May, 69

Pack, Robert

  • Nothing (Poem), Oct., 41

Paquette, Robert L.

Penrose, James F.

  • Kurt Masur conducts Brahms, on the New York Philharmonic’s presentation of the symphonies of Brahms at Avery Fisher Hall, New York (MUSIC), Dec., 50;
  • Concert note on Psyché by César Franck, at the New York Philharmonic, Lincoln Center, New York (MUSIC), Jan., 48

Radosh, Ronald

  • The blacklist as history, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Hollywood blacklist, Dec., 12

Richler, Mordecai

  • Peddler’s diary, on the author’s recent book tour (Notebook), Jan., 73;
  • Reply to Jan Wong (Letter), June, 89

Rollyson, Carl

  • Rebecca West & the FBI, on Rebecca West’s FBI file & what it tells us, Feb., 12;
  • Reply to Eric Bentley (Letter), June, 89

Saba, Umberto

  • Ulisse (Poem), with facing translation, Ulysses, by Geoffrey Brock, Feb., 36;
  • Amore (Poem), with facing translation, Love, by Geoffrey Brock, Feb., 36;
  • Il vetro rotto (Poem), with facing translation, The broken pane, by Geoffrey Brock, Feb., 36;
  • Sera di febbraio (Poem), with facing translation, February evening, by Geoffrey Brock, Feb., 38;
  • L’arboscello (Poem), with facing translation, The sapling, by Geoffrey Brock, Feb., 38;
  • Al lettore (Poem), with facing translation, To the reader, by Geoffrey Brock, Feb., 38

Salemi, Joseph S.

  • Ronald Knox as translator (Letter), Jan., 79

Schwendener, Peter

  • Comic contempt, a review of The Collected Stories by Paul Theroux (BOOKS), Oct., 74

Scruton, Roger

  • Europhiles & “Little Englanders,” on English Common Law & the European Union (Letter from London), Jan., 32

Shapiro, Harvey

  • 1998 (Poem), Jan., 28

Shaw, Robert B.

  • Espalier (Poem), Oct., 40;
  • The future perfect (Poem), Mar., 34

Silver, Daniel J.

  • Monsieur Moi-même, a review of Stendhal by Jonathan Keates (BOOKS), Sept., 71

Simon, John

  • Music note on Opera & Politics: From Monteverdi to Menze by John Bokina (MUSIC), Dec., 53;
  • Concert note on Capriccio by Richard Strauss, at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York (MUSIC), Feb., 57;
  • Solti on Solti, a review of Memoirs by Sir Georg Solti, with Harvey Sachs (BOOKS), Apr., 62;
  • The Kirov Opera at the Met, on the Kirov Opera Festival at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York (MUSIC), June, 53

Simpson, Louis

  • Introduction to “Two poems by Charles Baudelaire,” Sept., 33;
  • See also Baudelaire, Charles

Slavitt, David R.

  • Airedales (Poem), Mar., 35

Spires, Elizabeth

  • Dogwood (Poem), June, 36;
  • Above the pagoda (Poem), June, 38

Steyn, Mark

  • Canada: awash in hyphenation, on the Canada Day festivities & recent trends in Canadian culture, Sept., 19;
  • Summertime, on the summer theater season (THEATER), Oct., 43;
  • Gruesome twosome, on More Stately Mansions by Eugene O’Neill & Side Show by Henry Krieger & Bill Russell (THEATER), Nov., 36;
  • Muddled “marivaudage,” on The Triumph of Love & other plays (THEATER), Dec., 37;
  • Luvvies’ Labor lost, on the Labor government’s cuts to theater funding (THEATER), Jan., 34;
  • Peddling air, on the selling of theaters’ air rights & the Broadway season (THEATER), Feb., 40;
  • Boy meets girl in Montreal, a review of Barney’s Version by Mordecai Richler (BOOKS), Feb., 67;
  • “Capeman” crusaders, on The Capeman by Paul Simon & Derek Wolcott (THEATER), Mar., 38;
  • Critics & collectors, on Art by Yesmina Reza & other plays (THEATER), Apr., 42;
  • Camping-up fascism, on Cabaret & other plays (THEATER), May, 28;
  • Oscar nominations, on The Judas Kiss by David Hare (THEATER), June, 45

Teichman, Jenny

  • Substitutes for truth, a review of Belief & Resistance: Dynamics of Contemporary Intellectual Controversy by Barbara Herrnstein Smith (BOOKS), Dec., 71

Terzain, Philip

  • “Chicagoland” chronicler, a review of The Colonel: The Life & Legend of Robert B. McCormick, 1880–1955, by Richard Norton Smith (BOOKS), Oct., 66

Tillinghast, Richard

  • W. B. Yeats: “the labyrinth of another’s being,” on W. B. Yeats: The Man & the Milieu by Keith Alldritt & W. B. Yeats: A Life. Volume I: The Apprentice Mage, 1865–1914 by R. F. Forster, Nov., 17;
  • Work station (Poem), Jan., 30;
  • Southern literature reconstructed, a review of The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology edited by William L. Andrews et al. (BOOKS), May, 60

Tuttleton, James W.

  • Faulkner & modernism, a review of William Faulkner: The Making of a Modernist by Daniel J. Singal (BOOKS), Sept., 61;
  • Louis Auchincloss at 80, a consideration of the author upon publication of his book The Atonement & Other Stories, Oct., 33

Wallace, Robert

  • Meter in English (Letter), Jan., 79

Weiner, Lauren

  • Rediscovering the “espírito” of Machado, on new editions of the books of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, Oct., 18

Wilkin, Karen

  • David Smith at Storm King, on the first installment of\ The Fields of David Smith at the Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York (ART), Sept., 40;
  • Cambodia comes to Washington, on Sculpture of Angkor & Ancient Cambodia: Millennium of Glory at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (ART), Oct., 48;
  • Musée Degas, on The Private Collection of Edgar Degas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (ART), Nov., 41;
  • Egon Schiele at MOMA, Dec., 29;
  • Exhibition note on Ten Paintings by Paul Cézanne Formerly in the Auguste Pellerine Collection at Sotheby’s, New York (ART), Jan., 42;
  • Lorenzo Lotto in Washington, on Lorenzo Lotto: Rediscovered Master of the Renaissance at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Feb., 29;
  • Frankenthaler at the Guggenheim, on After “Mountains & Sea”: Frankenthaler 1956–1959 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (ART), Mar., 44;
  • Manet & Monet at the Musée d’Orsay, on Manet, Monet & the Gare Saint-Lazare at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris (ART), Apr., 47;
  • Prud’hon at the Metropolitan, on Pierre-Paul Prud’hon at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (ART), May, 34;
  • The real Greenberg, a review of Clement Greenberg: A Life by Florence Rubenfeld (BOOKS), June, 74

Windschuttle, Keith

  • Our debts to English history, on Hope & Glory: Britain 1900–1990 by Peter Clarke & A Monarchy Transformed: Britain 1603–1714 by Mark Kishlansky, two of the eight volumes in the Penguin History of Britain, Jan., 22;
  • The problem of democratic history, on History on Trial: Culture Wars & the Teaching of History by Gary B. Nash, Charlotte Crabtree, and Ross E. Dunn & the debate over history curricula, June, 22

Winegarten, Renee

  • Women & politics: Madame de Tencin, on the French writer Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de Tencin, Oct., 26;
  • An early dissident: Madame de Staël, on the French activist & writer Anne Louise Germaine Necker, Mme. de Staël, May, 17;
  • Victor Hugo: the dangerous master, on a recent biography of the French writer by Graham Robb, June, 29

Wolcott, James

  • Blasts from the past, a review of Underworld by Don DeLillo (BOOKS), Dec., 65;
  • Synthetic grit, a review of Night Train by Martin Amis (BOOKS), Mar., 64

Wong, Jan

  • Richler’s version (Letter), June, 89

Yezzi, David

  • “Our saint — if we had one,” a review of The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore, edited by Bonnie Costello, with Celeste Goodridge & Cristanne Miller (BOOKS), Feb., 77;
  • Confessional poetry & the artifice of honesty, on the legacy of confessional poetry, occasioned by Ted Hughes’s Birthday Letters, June, 14