Index

The New Criterion

Volume 17

September 1998 – June 1999

Allen, Brooke

  • The wily Mr. Shawn, reviews of Remembering Mr. Shawn’s “New Yorker”: The Invisible Art of Editing by Ved Mehta & Here But Not Here: A Love Story by Lillian Ross (BOOKS), Sept., 56;
  • “Not a very loud voice,” a review of Osbert Sitwell by Philip Ziegler (BOOKS), Oct., 68;
  • In the city, reviews of Bech at Bay by John Updike & Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge (FICTION CHRONICLE), Nov., 60;
  • The scholar of scandal, a review of The Traitor’s Kiss: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, by Fintan O’Toole, Dec., 21;
  • Commonsense aesthete, a review of Aubrey Beardsley: A Biography by Matthew Sturgis (BOOKS), Feb., 67;
  • Pretentious & hollow, a review of Heavy Water & Other Stories by Martin Amis (BOOKS), Mar., 70;
  • Illustrations of inertia & compromise, reviews of Amsterdam by Ian McEwan, The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden & Charlotte Gray: A Novel by Sebastian Faulks (FICTION CHRONICLE), Apr., 60;
  • A family album, a review of Another World by Pat Barker (BOOKS), May, 74
  • A feeling of disjunction, a review of The Hours by Michael Cunningham (BOOKS), June, 81

Allen, James Sloan

Arkes, Hadley

  • Liberalism & the law, being the fifth in a series titled “The betrayal of liberalism,” Jan., 4

Arkin, Marc M.

  • An unlikely prophet, a review of Mary Baker Eddy by Gillian Gill (BOOKS), Jan., 70

Bell, Daniel

  • “Commentaire” at 20 (Letter), Dec., 88

Berry, J. Duncan

  • Where’s Raymond?, a review of Le Philosophe et la mémoire du siècle: Tolérance, liberté et philosophie by Raymond Klibansky (BOOKS), Jan., 78

Bolton, Joe

  • Page (Poem), Sept., 30;
  • Soon (Poem), Sept., 31;
  • Hell & back (Poem), Sept., 32

Borges, Jorge Luis

  • La moneda de hiero (Poem), with facing translation, The iron coin, by Eric McHenry, Mar., 40;
  • El alquimista (Poem), with facing translation, The alchemist, by Alastair Reid, Mar., 42;
  • Things that might have been (Poem), with facing translation, Things that might have been, by Hoyt Rogers, Mar., 44

Bowman, James

  • Operation retract, on bias, honesty & the “Operation Tailwind” retraction (THE MEDIA), Sept., 51;
  • Humpty Dumpty: together again, on journalistic subservience to White House spin (THE MEDIA), Oct., 58;
  • Illusions of equivalence, on Cold War, the CNN television series, Nov., 55;
  • The Gingrich story, on Newt Gingrich & the press corps (THE MEDIA), Dec., 64;
  • An era without honor, on lying, honor & the Clinton administration (THE MEDIA), Jan., 60;
  • Honor & duty, a review of A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe (BOOKS), Jan., 67;
  • History Potomac style, spinning history on behalf of the President (THE MEDIA), Feb., 58;
  • The grand narrative, a review of From Plato to NATO by David Gress (BOOKS), Feb., 71;
  • The throne of self-importance, on Monica’s Story & journalistic hubris (THE MEDIA), Mar., 57;
  • The women come & go, on self-conceit in the media (THE MEDIA), Apr., 55;
  • Caring, compassionate imperialism, on the rhetoric of the war in Kosovo (THE MEDIA), May, 64;
  • Gestural politics, empty gestures abound, June, 55

Boyers, Peg

  • The first thing to go (Poem), Sept., 33

Boyers, Robert

  • Queer theory in Russia (Letter), Mar., 79

Brent, Jonathan

Brock, Horace W.

  • “The Aesthetics of Music,” an exchange between Horace W. Brock & Roger Scruton, Mar., 31

Carduff, Christopher

  • Book notes on 1898: The Birth of the American Century by David Traxel, Man Flies: The Story of Alberto Santos-Dumont, Master of the Balloon, Conquerer of the Air by Nancy Winters & Man From Babel by Eugene Jolas (BOOKS), Nov., 73;
  • Book notes on The Three Horsemen of the New Apocalypse by Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Friends Talking in the Night: Sixty Years of Writing for “The New Yorker” by Philip Hamburger & Cyril Connolly: A Life by Jeremy Lewis (BOOKS), Feb., 77;
  • Book notes on The Way of the World: From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the Twenty-first Century by David Fromkin, Under Gemini by Isabel Bolton & Zarafa by Michael Allen (BOOKS), Apr., 74;
  • Book notes on Heshel’s Kingdom by Dan Jacobson & A Gift Imprisoned: The Poetic Life of Matthew Arnold by Ian Hamilton (BOOKS), June, 88

Caryl, Christian

  • An opacity of hopelessness, on Muscovite cinema & self-image (LETTER FROM MOSCOW), Oct., 76

Coleman, Alexander

  • Concert note on The St. Petersburg Philharmonic, conducted by Yuri Temirkanov, at Carnegie Hall (MUSIC), Dec., 61;
  • Two at City Opera, reviews of The Cunning Little Vixen by Leos Janácek & Of Mice and Men by Carlisle Floyd, at the City Opera, New York (MUSIC), Jan., 55;
  • Three Late Poems, on the poetry of Jorge Luis Borges, Mar., 39;
  • Eça de Queirós, on the influential Portuguese novelist, Apr., 28;
  • At last, the promised land?, a review of Moses und Aron by Arnold Schoenberg, at the Metropolitan Opera, New York (MUSIC), May, 59

Coleman, William

  • Three prayers of Telémakhos (Poem), Apr., 43

Conquest, Robert

  • Liberals & totalitarianism, being the sixth in a series titled “The betrayal of liberalism,” Feb., 4

Dean, Paul

  • Selling Milton, a review of The Riverside Milton, edited by Roy Flannagan (BOOKS), Sept., 67;
  • Brontosauran bardolatry, a review of Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom (BOOKS), Dec., 77;
  • Postponing & deferring, a review of The Warden: A Portrait of John Sparrow by John Lowe (BOOKS), Mar., 68;
  • Abhorring a vacuum, a review of Shakespeare: A Life by Park Honan (BOOKS), June, 78

Deutschman, Deborah Elliott

  • Light: Clarence H. White’s Photographs (Poem), Jan., 41

Dickstein, Morris

  • The magic of contradictions: Willa Cather’s lost lady, a reconsideration of A Lost Lady, Feb., 20

Drake, Richard

Downing, Ben

  • A humble Cyrano, a review of For a Modest God: New and Selected Poems by Eric Ormsby (BOOKS), Sept., 65;
  • Bunk & braggadocio, a review of Lord Byron’s Jackal by David Crane (BOOKS), Apr., 72
  • “A jelly without its mould,” a review of Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804–1834 by Richard Holmes (BOOKS), June, 68

Elshtain, Jean Bethke

  • The bright line: liberalism & religion, being the seventh in a series titled “The betrayal of liberalism,” Mar., 4

Epstein, Daniel Mark

  • The circle dance (Poem), Oct., 41

Epstein, Joseph

Falcoff, Mark

  • Bored & boring, a review of The Politics of Spanish American “Modernismo” By Exquisite Design by Gerard Aching (BOOKS), Dec., 85

Friedman, Paula

  • Hasty reflections, a review of Personals, edited by Thomas Beller (BOOKS), Jan., 76

Gilbert, Creighton

  • Sound judgments, on Michelangelo—The Last Judgement: A Glorious Restoration by Loren Partridge, with contributions by Fabrizio Mancinelli & Gianluigi Colalucci & Michelangelo’s “Last Judgement”: The Renaissance Response by Bernadine Barnes (BOOKS), Nov., 68;
  • An observer of charms & hurts: Dosso of Ferrara, on Dosso Dossi, Court Painter in Renaissance Ferrara, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (ART), Apr., 51

Greenberg, Martin

  • Thomas Mann in English, on the difficulties of translation, Mar., 21

Gross, John

  • A disagreeable aroma, on the decline of the BBC (LONDON JOURNAL), Oct., 42;
  • Coarseness & crudeness & correctness, on the coarsening of British culture (LONDON JOURNAL), Feb., 41;
  • New histories for old, on the ideological rewriting of history (LONDON JOURNAL), June, 36

Harman, Mark

  • Franz Kafka (Letter), Mar., 77

Jacobs, Laura

  • Jerome Robbins, 1918–1998 (DANCE), Sept., 48;
  • Meaningless enchainments, on William Forsythe, Twyla Tharp & the excesses of contemporary dance criticism (DANCE), Feb., 53

Johnson, Lawrence A.

  • Concert note on Mourning Becomes Electra by Marvin David Levy, at the Lyric Opera, Chicago (MUSIC), Dec., 60;
  • Concert note on Roméo et Juliette by Charles Gounod, at the Lyric Opera, Chicago (MUSIC), Mar., 55;
  • Concert note on Moses und Aron by Arnold Schoenberg, at the Chicago Sympohony Orchestra (MUSIC), May, 62

Justice, Donald

Kagan, Robert

  • History repeating itself: liberalism & foreign policy, being the eighth in a series titled “The betrayal of liberalism,” Apr., 4

Kimball, Roger

  • Delacroix reconsidered, on Delacroix: The Late Work, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Sept., 9;
  • Exhibition note on Alberto Giacometti at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (ART), Sept., 45;
  • The greatest Victorian, on Walter Bagehot, Oct., 23;
  • “One very simple principle,” being the third in a series titled “The betrayal of liberalism,” Nov., 4;
  • Reply to Mark Lilla (Letter), Dec., 87;
  • Josef Pieper: Leisure & its discontents, on the German philosopher & the meaning of leisure, Jan., 23;
  • What the Sixties wrought, on The Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, c.1958–c.1974 by Arthur Marwick, Mar., 14;
  • The permanent Auden, a reconsideration of W. H. Auden occasioned by Edward Mendelson’s Later Auden, May, 13

Kramer, Hilton

  • The betrayal of liberalism, being the first in a series titled “The betrayal of liberalism,” Sept., 4;
  • Exhibition note on George Segal, a Retrospective: Sculptures, Paintings, and Drawings, at the Jewish Museum, New York (ART), Sept., 47;
  • Bonnard & “the Stupidities,” on Bonnard, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Oct., 18;
  • Jackson Pollock & The New York School, I, being the first part of an examination of the artist’s place in the modernist tradition, Jan., 17;
  • Jackson Pollock & The New York School, II, being the second part of an examination of the artist’s place in the modernist tradition, Feb., 14

Kronen, Steve

  • Southern Literature (Letter), Sept., 79

Lehrman, Lewis

  • Alexander Hamilton: precocious & preeminent,on Alexander Hamilton, American, by Richard Brookhiser, APR., 31

Leithauser, Brad

  • “No Other Book”: Randall Jarrell’s criticism, an introduction to The Criticism of Randall Jarrell, APR., 19

Levin, Phillis

  • Georgic (Poem), Oct., 39;
  • Double figure (Poem), OCT., 40

Lewis, MichaeL J.

  • The Guggenheim in Bilbao (ARCHITECTURE), June, 52

Lilla, Mark

  • Emotions of virtue (Letter), Dec., 86

Logan, William

  • Sins & sensibility, reviews of Sweet Machine by Mark Doty, Ten Commandments by J. D. McClatchy, The Bird Catcher by Marie Ponsot, A Working Girl Can’t Win by Deborah Garrison, Babylon in a Jar by Andrew Hudgins, Blizzard of One by Mark Strand & Hay by Paul Muldoon (VERSE CHRONICLE), Dec., 69;
  • Berryman at Shakespeare, a review of Berryman’s Shakespeare by John Berryman (BOOKS), May, 69;
  • Vanity Fair a review of On the Bus with Rosa Parks by Rita Dove, Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-1998 by Adrienne Rich, The Lost Land by Eavan Boland, Vita Nova by Louise Glück, Wooroloo by Frieda Hughes, A Kiss in Space by Mary Jo Salter & Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson (VERSE CHRONICLE), June, 60

Lyons, Donald

  • Choosing coarseness, a review of Aristophanes, Volume I: Acharnians, Knights & Volume II: Clouds, Wasps, Peace, edited & translated by Jeffrey Henderson (BOOKS), May, 76;
  • A major minor: Ezra Pound’s poetry, a consideration of Ezra Pound, June, 16

Mahoney, Daniel J.

  • The wheel turns, a review of November 1916: The Red Wheel/Knot II by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts (BOOKS), Feb., 73

Martinez, Roman

  • Value-free Harvard, on the reaction at Harvard University to the Clinton scandals (NOTEBOOK), Mar., 73

McDowell, Robert

McFall, Gardner

Mermelstein, David

  • Derailed in San Francisco, a review of A Streetcar Named Desire by André Previn, at the San Francisco Opera (MUSIC), Dec., 57;
  • Le Nozze di Susanna, a review of Le nozze di Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, at the Metropolitan Opera (MUSIC), Jan., 54;
  • The meanspirited wunderkind, a review of Powder Her Face by Thomas Adès, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (MUSIC), Mar., 51

Meyers, Jeffrey

Mezey, Robert

  • Laïs Dedicates to Aphroditê the Tools of Her Trade (Poem), Jan., 39

Morrone, Francis

  • PC New York, a review of Gotham: A History of New York City by Edwin G. Burrows & Mike Wallace (BOOKS), Dec., 80

Morson, Gary Saul

  • “Absolute Nonsense”—Gogol’s tales, on The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol, translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky (BOOKS), Nov., 65;
  • Reply to Richard Pevear (Letter), Mar., 79;
  • How did Dostoevsky know?, on totalitarianism, evil & intellectuals, Apr., 21

Naves, Mario

  • On a modest scale, reviews of Judith Rothschild: An Artist’s Search at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Norman Lewis (1909–1979) at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, Unknown Terrain: The Landscapes of Andrew Wyeth at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York & Aleksandr Rodchenko at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (ART), Sept., 42;
  • Exhibition note on Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864–1916): Danish Painter of Solitude and Light, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (ART), Oct., 55;
  • Exhibition note on Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958–1968, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (ART), Oct., 56;
  • Mark Rothko at the Whitney, on the retrospective of the artist’s work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (ART), Nov., 52;
  • Van Gogh in Washington, on Van Gogh’s Van Goghs, at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (ART), Dec., 54;
  • Duchamp & Cornell, on Joseph Cornell/Marcel Duchamp … in resonance, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (ART), Jan., 48;
  • Five Painters, reviews of Common Man, Mythic Vision: The Paintings of Ben Shahn at the Jewish Museum in New York & recent exhibitions of Jacob Lawrence, Lester Johnson, Brice Marden & Nell Blaine (ART), Feb., 49;
  • A Spring roundup, reviews of Ronald Bladen: Selected Works at P.S. 1, New York, Willard Boepple: The Sense of Things at the New York Studio School, Anne Peretz at the Salander-O’Reilly Galleries & Stephen Westfall at Lennon, Weinberg, Inc. (ART), May, 56;
  • Exhibition note on The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (ART), June, 49;
  • Exhibition note on To Conserve a Legacy, at the Studio Museum in Harlem (ART), June, 50;
  • Exhibition note on Hans Hofmann, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (ART), June, 51

NOTES & COMMENTS

  • Museum fatigue, on professional fatigue in the top ranks of museums, Sept., 1;
  • A good scam?, on the Modern Library’s list of the 100 best novels written in English since 1900, Sept., 2;
  • Exit “affirmative action,” enter “race-sensitive admissions policies,” on William G. Bowen’s & Derek Bok’s The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College Admissions, Oct., 1;
  • Brief lives, on Penguin Lives, the new series of biographies from Viking-Penguin, Oct., 3;
  • Liberal screaming, on “Going Down Screaming,” Andrew Sullivan’s New York Times article of October 11, Nov., 1;
  • “In the end character is destiny,” on the state of the press during the Clinton presidency, Nov., 2;
  • James W. Tuttleton, 1934–1998, on the life & work of one of America’s wisest & most percipient critics, Dec., 1;
  • Good & bad news at CUNY, on language standards at the City University of New York, Jan., 1;
  • Off the record, on the New York Times- manufactured scandal at the Archives of American Art, Jan., 2;
  • Strange conjunctions, on literary critic George Steiner receiving the Truman Capote Lifetime Achievement Award, Jan., 3;
  • Only the life of the mind, on the end of the required core curriculum at the University of Chicago, Feb., 1;
  • Below the fold, on fatuous stories in The New York Times, Feb., 3;
  • A war without armistice, on President Clinton’s acquittal & the culture wars, Mar., 1;
  • A louse & a flea, on Christopher Hitchens, Mar., 2;
  • The one unforgiveable sin, on Elia Kazan’s Academy Award for lifetime achievement, Apr., 1;
  • Product placement 101, on brand names in textbooks, Apr., 2;
  • Deviant chic, on the mainstreaming of pornography, Apr., 3;
  • More & more of everything, on the so-called “culture boom,” May, 1;
  • Partly infuriating, partly pathetic, on Philosophy and Literature’s annual Bad Writing Contest, May, 3;
  • Over the line at Wesleyan, on a class in pornography at Wesleyan University, June, 1;
  • Incontinent moralism, on Susan Sontag and the war in Kosovo, June, 3

Ormsby, Eric

  • Franz Kafka & the trip to Spindelmühle, on The Castle & its translations, Nov., 32;
  • A sad & angry summa, a review of The Triumph of Love by Geoffrey Hill (BOOKS), Feb., 64;
  • Reply to Mark Harman (Letter), Mar., 78;
  • Nostalgia for bad times, on how the Czech Republic views its past (LETTER FROM PRAGUE), May, 40

O’Sullivan, John

  • The moral consequences of impatience, being the tenth in a series titled “The betrayal of liberalism,” June, 4

Penrose, James

  • Concert note on a performance of the Cuban pianist Juana Zayas, at Seton Hall University, New Jersey (MUSIC), Jan., 58

Pevear, Richard

  • “Absolute Nonsense” (Letter), Mar., 78

Pryce-Jones, David

Rawson, Claude

  • A working life, a review of Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author by Lawrence Lipking (BOOKS), June, 74

Richman, Robert

  • Prosody atrocities, a review of All the Fun’s in How You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and Versification by Timothy Steele (BOOKS), Apr., 70

Rollyson, Carl

  • Reporting Nuremberg, on the war crimes trial reporting of Martha Gellhorn, Janet Flanner & Rebecca West (NOTEBOOK), Sept., 74
  • After the fall, a review of Ex-Friends by Norman Podhoretz (BOOKS), Mar., 62

Russello, Gerald J.

  • A hero for the truth, a review of The Unbought Spirit: A John Jay Chapman Reader, edited by Richard Stone (BOOKS), Jan., 74

Salter, Mary Jo

  • Alternating Currents (Poem), Dec., 34

Schmertz, Mildred F.

  • A clean, well-lighted place, a review of Towards a New Museum by Victoria Newhouse, Oct., 71

Schwartz, Stephen

  • A shameful book, a review of The Shameful Life of Salvador Dalí by Ian Gibson (BOOKS), June, 84

Scruton, Roger

  • Rousseau & the origins of liberalism, being the second in a series titled “The betrayal of liberalism,” Oct., 5;
  • “The Aesthetics of Music,” an exchange between Horace W. Brock & Roger Scruton, Mar., 31

Silber, John

Silver, Daniel J.

  • A bundle of paradoxes, a review of Daniel Defoe: The Life and Strange, Surprising Adventures by Richard West (BOOKS), Oct., 64

Simon, John

  • Partying on Parnassus: the New York School Poets, occasioned by David Lehman’s The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets, Oct., 31;
  • Concert note on Kátya Kabanová by Leos Janácek, at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York (MUSIC), Mar., 54;
  • Victimized Verlaine, on One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine, translated by Norman R. Shapiro, June, 29

Steyn, Mark

  • The entertainment state, on the historical distortions of popular culture, Sept., 24;
  • Broadway blues, on the diminishing fortunes of music on Broadway (THEATER), Oct., 45;
  • Swans & swains, on Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake (THEATER), Nov., 43;
  • “Corpus” delecti, on Terrence McNally’s Corpus Christi (THEATER), Dec., 49;
  • Flat-footed Wolfe, on On the Town & other plays (THEATER), Jan., 43;
  • Sad, perfunctory, mechanical, a review of The Blue Room & other plays (THEATER), Feb., 44;
  • The revenge of art, a review of Death of a Salesman & other plays (THEATER), Mar., 46;
  • No business like show business, a review of Annie Get Your Gun (THEATER), Apr., 46;
  • What the Brits are swearing, reviews of Closer & other British imports (THEATER), May, 46;
  • Saying nothing, at great length, on the Tony awards (THEATER), June, 39

Teichman, Jenny

  • The philosophy of We, a review of Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers, Volume 3 by Richard Rorty (BOOKS), Sept., 60;
  • On the side of truth, on Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate: Unfashionable Essays by Susan Haack (BOOKS), Nov., 71

Tillinghast, Richard

  • The curse of the Irish, a review of No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O’Brien by Anthony Cronin (BOOKS), Sept., 71;
  • Reply to Steve Kronen (Letter), Sept., 80;
  • The ironic tiger, on Irish culture & the economic boom (LETTER FROM DUBLIN), Dec., 44

Tomlinson, Charles

  • Snowbound (Poem), Jan., 40

van den Haag, Dr. Ernest

  • Shades of Gray (Letter), Sept., 79

Wayne, Kenneth

  • Matisse: the genius as late bloomer, a review of The Unknown Matisse A Life of Henri Matisse: The Early Years, 1869–1909 by Hilary Spurling (BOOKS), Jan., 65

Weiner, Lauren

  • Dawn Powell: the fruits of revival, on Dawn Powell’s novels, June, 23

Wilkin, Karen

  • A Degas doubleheader, on Degas and the Little Dancer at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass. & Degas at the Races at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (ART), Sept., 35;
  • An anniversary in Montreal: “Refus global” at 50, on Borduas and the Automatist Epic at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal & Peinture, Peinture at the Belgo Building, Montreal (ART), Oct., 50;
  • A Northern Renaissance at the Metropolitan, a review of From Van Eyck to Brueghel: Early Netherlandish Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (ART), Nov., 48;
  • A thoroughly modern Monet, a review of Monet in the 20th Century, at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Dec., 29;
  • Exhibition Note on “Bob Thompson,” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (ART), Jan., 56;
  • The art of the Baule people, a review of Baule: African Art/Western Eyes, at The Museum for African Art, New York, Feb., 32;
  • Max Beckmann & the School of Paris, a review of Beckmann and Paris, at the Saint Louis Art Museum, Apr., 37;
  • Disaster Relief, a review of Floodsongs, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (ART), May, 51;
  • Goya in Philadelphia, a review of Goya: Another Look, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (ART), June, 44

Wilson, Robley

  • Bones (Poem), Nov., 39

Windschuttle, Keith

  • Liberalism & imperialism, being the fourth in a series titled “The betrayal of liberalism,” Dec., 4;
  • Edward Said’s “Orientalism” revisited, on the writings of the literary critic & academic celebrity, Jan., 30

Winegarten, Renee

  • We’ll always have Paris, a review of A Corner in the Marais: Memoir of a Paris Neighborhood by Alex Karmel (BOOKS), Mar., 65

Yezzi, David