Index

The New Criterion

Volume 19

September 2000 – June 2001

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Agee, William C.

• A debt that can never be paid: Stieglitz & American modernism a review of Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries at the National Gallery of Art, Washington (ART), May, 40

Allen, Brooke

• The blaming of Leonard Woolf a review of Who’s Afraid of Leonard Woolf by Irene Coates (BOOKS), Dec., 73;
• Sadness balancing wit: Thackeray’s life & works, Jan., 19;
• Sylvia Townsend Warner’s “very cultured voice” a consideration of the life and works of Sylvia Townsend Warner, Mar., 20;
• Blurring the borders reviews of Border Crossing by Pat Barker; Beloved Stranger by Clare Boylan & Thanksgiving by Michael Dibdin (FICTION CHRONICLE), May, 62

Applebaum, Anne

• When in Romania a review of Journal: 1935–1944 by Mihail Sebastian (BOOKS), Mar., 66

Arkin, Marc M.

• The small house a review of Troubling Confessions by Peter Brooks (BOOKS), Jan., 76;
• From Englishmen to Americans a review of Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans by Joyce Appleby (BOOKS), Apr., 66

Barber, David

• Shorter notice on Basil Bunting on Poetry Peter Makin, editor (BOOKS), Dec., 81

Berry, J. Duncan

• The fortunes of Aby Warburg a consideration of Warburg’s art-historical essays, Nov., 29;
• Birth of the museum a review of The Ephemeral Museum by Francis Haskell & Museums in the German Art World by James J. Sheehan (BOOKS), Apr., 75

Bork, Robert H.

• Sanctimony serving politics: the Florida fiasco on the 2000 election, Mar., 4

Bose, Sudip

• A complicated business a review of Romancing: The Life and Work of Henry Green by Jeremy Treglown (BOOKS), May, 72

Bowman, James

• The politics of posturing on “reality TV” and the election (THE MEDIA), Sept., 63;
• Patriotism of the heart a review of My Love Affair with America by Norman Podhoretz (BOOKS), Sept., 72;
• The mote & the beam on the coverage of the presidential campaign (THE MEDIA), Oct., 59;
• The joke’s on us on the language of the presidential debates (THE MEDIA), Nov., 58;
• Complicity, objectivity & stupidity on the character of presidential campaigns (THE MEDIA), Dec., 60;
• The familiar hypocrisy on vote-counting in Florida (THE MEDIA), Jan., 62;
• Outside the mainstream on the tacit presupposition of a liberal audience in film (THE MEDIA), Feb., 59;
• Covering governing on Al Gore’s journalism class at Columbia University (THE MEDIA), Mar., 52;
• The shock of the few on the media’s attitude towards school shootings and pardons (THE MEDIA), Apr., 62;
• The accustomed perspective on the coverage of the China spy plane incident (THE MEDIA), May, 57;
• Melancholy facts contrasting the obituaries of Second World War veterans (THE MEDIA), June, 64

Coleman, Alexander

• Orpheus in Hell a review of Composers of the Nazi Era: Eight Portraits by Michael H. Kater (BOOKS), Oct., 67;
• Life in Basqueland a reply to Mark Kurlansky (Letter) Dec., 88;
• Genial improvisations a review of This Craft of Verse by Jorge Luis Borges (BOOKS), Jan., 79;
• Authentically bland a review of A Century of Recorded Music by Timothy Day (BOOKS), Apr., 70;
• Berg’s femmes fatales a review of Lulu by Alban Berg (MUSIC), June, 59

Conquest, Robert

• Phryne (Poem), Oct., 37;
• Chalet (Poem), Oct., 39;
• In the act (Poem), Oct., 39

Corrie, Daniel

• For John Haines (Poem), May, 29

Creech, Morri

• Engine work: variations (Poem), Nov., 37;
• The music of farewell (Poem), Nov., 39

Dalrymple, Theodore

• Crudity beyond belief on the New Art Gallery at Walsall (NOTEBOOK), Sept., 77;
• Reticence or insincerity, Rattigan or Pinter, Nov., 12;
• Walsall redux on the controversy caused by Crudity Beyond Belief (NOTEBOOK), Feb., 78;
• Discovering La Rochefoucauld, Apr., 28

Daniels, Anthony

• No idiocy like educated idiocy a review of The Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot by Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, Carlos Alberto Montaner & Alvaro Vargas Llosa (BOOKS), Jan., 67;
• Morality for solipsists reflections on political correctness in medicine, Feb., 19;
• P.C. medicine a reply to Richard Wilkinson (Letter), Apr., 79
• Frantz Fanon: the platonic form of human resentment, May, 15;
• How to murder a Bolivian boy on Peter Singer and the assault on medical ethics in America, June, 31

Davenport, Guy

• A stereopticon a review of Nabokov’s Blues: The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius by Kurt Johnson & Steve Coates & Nabokov’s Butterflies: Unpublished and Uncollected Writings by Vladimir Nabokov (BOOKS), Sept., 74

Davis, Dick

• Guides for the soul (Poem), Jan., 39

Dean, Paul

• The maiden phoenix a review of Elizabeth I: Collected Works Leah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller & Mary Beth Rose, editors (BOOKS), Oct., 72;
• Shorter notice on The Knox Brothers by Penelope Fitzgerald (BOOKS), Nov., 71;
• The survivor a review of Thomas Gray: A Life by Robert L. Mack (BOOKS), Jan., 73;
• Putting on the make-up a review of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 2: The Elegies Gary A. Stringer, editor (BOOKS), Mar., 63;
• Symbols & syntax a review of Words Alone: The Poet T. S. Eliot by Denis Donoghue (BOOKS), May, 78

Derbyshire, John

• Slim pickings a review of Berlin in Lights: The Diaries of Harry Kessler Charles Kessler, editor & translator (BOOKS), Nov., 65;
• Longfellow & the fate of modern poetry, Dec., 12;
• Valiant for truth a review of Did Adam and Eve Have Navels? by Martin Gardner (BOOKS), Jan., 71;
• The life & the “Life” a review of A Life of James Boswell by Peter Martin & Boswell’s Presumptuous Task by Adam Sisman (BOOKS), Mar., 61;
• All perfectly logical a review of The Universal Computer by Martin Davis & The Computer and the Brain by John von Neumann (BOOKS), Apr., 73;
• Boswell’s “Life” a reply to Adam Sisman (Letter), May, 80;
• Induction rules a review of The Science of Conjecture by James Franklin (BOOKS), June, 79

Dickey, Christopher

• James Dickey (Letter), Sept., 88

Downing, Ben

• Philhellene’s progress: Patrick Leigh Fermor on his life and work, Jan., 9;
• Of Osberts and Evelyns a review of To keep the ball rolling by Anthony Powell (BOOKS), May, 70

Epstein, Daniel Mark

• Proust regained a consideration of Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu, Oct., 13;
• Introduction to Gérard de Nerval’s “Chimeras,” Dec., 31;
• The lightning & the key: a letter from William Franklin to Joseph Priestley (Poem), Apr., 32

Epstein, Joseph

• Talking to oneself on the keeping and anthologizing of journals, June, 22

Franklin, James

• Kuhn’s irrationalism a reply to Steve Fuller & Jenny Teichman (Letter), Sept., 85

Friedman, Paula

• Venturesome paths a review of Quarrel and Quandary by Cynthia Ozick (BOOKS), Feb., 73

Fromkin, David

• Once upon a time in France reflections on the pleasures of French cuisine (NOTEBOOK), Mar., 72

Fuller, Steve

• Kuhn’s irrationalism (Letter), Sept., 83

Gardner, Martin

• Looking backward at Edward Bellamy’s utopia, Sept., 19;
• Larger than proof a review of Gödel: A Life of Logic by John L. Casti & Werner DePauli (BOOKS), Dec., 77

Goldberg, Jonah

• Shorter notice on Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership, Nixon to Clinton by David Gergen (BOOKS), Nov., 74

Greenberg, Martin

• The river grows muddied: the evolution of English prose, on English prose in the seventeenth century, Sept., 26;
• Introduction to four poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, Mar., 33

Greer, Herb

• Faking O’Neill a review of Eugene O’Neill by Stephen A. Black (BOOKS), Oct., 75

Gross, John

• The triumph of experience over hope art in London (LONDON JOURNAL), Nov., 40;
• In the land of fulfillment on political correctness in Britain (LONDON JOURNAL), Feb., 36

Gross, Paul R.

• Does race exist? on Ms. Natalie Angier’s piece in The New York Times, Oct., 3
• Exorcising sociobiology examining recent attacks on anthropology, Feb., 24

Haack, Susan

• After my own heart: Dorothy L. Sayers’s feminism, May, 10

Hart, Henry

• James Dickey (Letter), Sept., 86

Hedreen, Guy

• The museum as fun house (Letter), Apr., 80

Hilton, Tim

• Clement Greenberg, Sept., 12

Jacobs, Laura

• Two princes & a mock Tudor on recent ABT performances (DANCE), Sept., 48;
• Taylor’s domain a consideration of the Paul Taylor Dance Company (DANCE), May, 47

Kimball, Roger

• The difficulty with Hegel, Sept., 4;
• The genius of Wodehouse on the life and writings of P. G. Wodehouse, Oct., 5;
• The difficulty with Hegel a reply to Richard Velkley (Letter), Oct., 79;
• Tocqueville today a consideration of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, Nov., 4;
• Plutarch & the issue of character a consideration of Plutarch’s life and work, Dec., 4;
• The museum as fun house on the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Feb., 5;
• Schiller’s “Aesthetic Education” a consideration of Schiller’s aesthetic philosophy, Mar., 12;
• The perils of designer tribalism a consideration of cultural relativism, Apr., 15;
• The museum as fun house a reply to Guy Hedreen (Letter), Apr., 80;
• Raymond Aron & the power of ideas, May, 4

Kramer, Hilton

• Telling stories, denying style: Reflections on MOMA2000, Jan., 4;
• Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.’s “Innocent beginnings” a review of A Life in the Twentieth Century by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (BOOKS), Mar., 57;
• Tate Modern inside & out: I The museum as culture mall, June, 4

Kunitz, Daniel

• Exhibition note on Alice Neel at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (ART), Sept., 46;
• Exhibition notes on Gerhard Richter: Abstract Paintings at Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York & Louise Fishman: New Paintings at Cheim & Read Gallery, New York (ART), Nov., 52;
• Gallery chronicle reviews of Jean Arp: Line and Form at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, Richard Pousette-Dart: Painting to Paper Black to White at Knoedler & Company, New York, Henri Michaux: Watercolors and Gouaches at Zabriskie Gallery, New York & Untitled Passages by Henri Michaux at The Drawing Center, New York (ART), Dec., 54;
• Gallery chronicle reviews of R. B. Kitaj: How To Reach 67 in Jewish Art at Marlborough Gallery, New York, Richard Diebenkorn: Early Abstractions 1949–1955 at Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, New York & Joan Miró: 16 Late Masterworks at Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York (ART), Jan., 51;
• Exhibition notes on Luc Tymans: Mwana Kitoko at David Zwirner Gallery, New York & Kenneth Noland: Circles at Ameringer Howard Gallery, New York (ART), Feb., 48;
• Exhibition notes on John Walker: Time and Tides at Knoedler & Company, New York, Nell Blaine: The Abstract Work at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, Jules Pascin: Important Works at Forum Gallery, New York, Edvard Munch: Paintings 1892–1917 at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York (ART), Apr., 48;
• Exhibition notes on Out of the Fifties--Into the Sixties: Six Figurative Expressionists at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York & Graham Nickson: Recent Paintings at Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York (ART), May, 44;
• Exhibition notes on Joel Shapiro on the Roof at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Joel Shapiro: Recent Sculpture and Drawings at PaceWildenstein, New York & Sidney Tillim: Recent Paintings at Trans Hudson Gallery, New York (ART), June, 53

Kurlansky, Mark

• Life in Basqueland (Letter), Dec., 87

Logan, William

• Author! author! reviews of Your Name Here by John Ashbery, Talking Dirty to the Gods by Yusef Komunyakaa, The Throne of Labdacus & Supernatural Love: Poems 1976–1992 by Gjertrud Schnackenberg, The Weather in Japan by Michael Longley & Speech! Speech! by Geoffrey Hill (VERSE CHRONICLE), Dec., 65;
• The Devil’s toenail (Poem), May, 30;
• Folk tales reviews of The Seven Ages by Louise Glück, The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson, The Beforelife by Franz Wright, The Darkness and the Light by Anthony Hecht, Different Hours by Stephen Dunn, The Tether by Carl Phillips & Electric Light by Seamus Heaney (VERSE CHRONICLE), June, 68

Lyons, Donald

• Out of Neronian chaos a review of Petronius’s Satyricon Sarah Ruden, translator (BOOKS), Feb., 71

Mermelstein, David

• Starry skies above a review of the Ojai Music Festival (MUSIC), Sept., 60;
• The sorrow & the pity a review of Wagner’s Parsifal at the San Francisco Opera (MUSIC), Nov., 55;
• Opera note on Verdi’s Il Trovatore at The Metropolitan Opera (MUSIC), Feb., 56

Meyers, Jeffrey

• James Dickey, a reply to Henry Hart & Christopher Dickey (Letter), Sept., 88;
• James Dean of fascism a review of The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach by Alice Kaplan (BOOKS), Nov., 69;
• Chicago Dostoyevsky a review of Saul Bellow: A Biography by James Atlas (BOOKS), Feb., 64;
• A deadly game a review of The Death of Jean Moulin by Patrick Marnham (BOOKS), May, 75;
• Trail of Blood a review of The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski (BOOKS), June, 82

Minogue, Kenneth

• How civilizations fall on the destructive tendencies of radical feminism, Apr., 4

Morgan, Frederick

• From the guest room window (Poem), Feb., 30;
• The refuge (Poem), Feb., 31;
• 1932 (Poem), Feb., 32

Morrone, Francis

• The career of Cass Gilbert on Inventing the Skyline at the New-York Historical Society (ARCHITECTURE), Jan., 54;
• Tate Modern inside & out: II “Second city” syndrome on how London is changing, June, 9

Naves, Mario

• Exhibition note on The Draftsman’s Art: Master Drawings from The National Gallery of Scotland at The Frick Collection, New York (ART), Feb., 50

Nerval, Gérard de

• “Chimeras” with a facing translation by Daniel Mark Epstein, Dec., 31

Nordlinger, Jay

• Earl Wild at 85 (MUSIC), Jan., 59;
• Hearing Bach on recent performances and recordings of the Bach cantatas (MUSIC), Feb., 52;
• Lessons from masters on the Marilyn Horne Foundation’s master classes (MUSIC), Mar., 43;
• Concert note on Jean-Yves Thibaudet at Carnegie Hall (MUSIC), Mar., 51;
• New York chronicle reviews of Mikhail Pletnev with the Russian National Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra, Roger Norrington conducting the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Heidi Grant Murphy in recital & Mozart’s Così fan tutte at The Metropolitan Opera (MUSIC), Apr., 57;
• New York chronicle: coming up Acis reviews of Handel’s Acis and Galatea at the New York City Opera, the Met Chamber Ensemble, Murray Perahia conducting and playing with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Christoph Eschenbach conducting the New York Philharmonic & Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos at the Metropolitan Opera (MUSIC), May, 51;
• New York chronicle: of Battle, bondage & more reviews of Kathleen Battle at Carnegie Hall, Saint-Saëns’s Samson et Dalila at the Metropolitan Opera, Leos Janacek’s The Makropulos Case at The Metropolitan Opera, Lang Lang and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Yuri Temirkanov & Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder with the Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus (MUSIC), June, 55

Norris, Leslie

• Three songs for Franz Schubert (Poem), Feb., 33

Notes & Comments

• We Now Know on Arthur Miller’s Are You Now or Were You Ever . . .”?, Sept., 1;
• The real witch hunt on children’s books impugned for supposedly objectionable content, Sept., 3;
• False advertising on Michel Houellebecq’s The Elementary Particles, Oct., 1;
• A worthy enterprise on The Chesterton Review, Oct., 2;
• Does race exist? Paul R. Gross on race and the human genome project, Oct., 3;
• Will there always be an England? on political correctness & the English language, Nov., 1;
• Derrida month on NYU’s celebration of Jacques Derrida, Nov., 3;
• The cultural revolution comes to the ballot box on the election crisis in Florida, Dec., 1;
• Michigan’s thin line on affirmative action and university admissions, Jan., 1;
• Anti-Americanism alive and well on criticism produced by the presidential election, Jan., 3;
• What more can they ask for? on attempts to normalize pedophilia, Feb., 1;
• The tendency of our culture on the relevance of Arnold J. Toynbee’s A Study of History, Mar., 1;
• On moral equivalence . . . on left-leaning scholarship in journals, Apr. 1;
• . . . and moral blindness on NYU’s Alger Hiss website, Apr. 3;
• Breaking new ground on the fatuousness of critical thinking, May, 1;
• Culture contra ideology on George Walden’s essay on “New Labour” in the May 11 TLS, June, 1

Ormsby, Eric

• Posthumous impresario a review of Last Poems: Manuscript Materials by W. B. Yeats, edited by James Pethica (BOOKS), Sept., 69;
• A sideshow of one: Umberto Saba, Dec., 25;
• The last Elizabethan: Hart Crane at 100, Feb., 12;
• Umberto Saba a reply to Stephen Sartarelli (Letter), Mar., 79
• Gardens for the sleeves on Arabic literature, Apr., 22;
• Rimbaud: Sophist of insanity, June, 16

Penrose, James F.

• Successes just missed: the career of Hector Berlioz, Oct., 29;
• Emmanuel Chabrier & French musical tradition, Jan., 29

Pinsker, Sanford

• Shorter notice on In Fact by Thomas Mallon (BOOKS), Mar., 70

Pryce-Jones, David

• Changing the climate a review of Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation, by Jeffrey Meyers (BOOKS), Nov., 63;
• Shorter notice of Troublemaker by Kathleen Burk (BOOKS), Dec., 80;
• Great is this truth a review of Lying about Hitler by Richard J. Evans (BOOKS), May, 67

Reeve, F. D.

• Wild life (Poem), May, 27

Reiter, Jendi

• Registering bliss (Poem), Sept., 32

Rifenburgh, Daniel

• Voice (Poem), May, 28

Rilke, Rainer Maria

• Four poems with facing translations by Martin Greenberg, Mar., 33

Ruden, Sarah

• Long walk to nowhere: Nelson Mandela (LETTER FROM SOUTH AFRICA), Dec., 21;
• The tyranny of anti-racism on divisive policies in South Africa (LETTER FROM SOUTH AFRICA), May, 31

Sartarelli, Stephen

• Umberto Saba (Letter), Mar., 78

Schmertz, Mildred

• Reconciling nature & the machine a review of Frank Furness by Michael J. Lewis (BOOKS), June, 76

Schwartz, Stephen

• A certain exhaustion on Albanian Catholic writers, Islamic monuments, and the survival of Judaism (LETTER FROM KOSOVO), Oct., 40;
• The Padilla affair in retrospect a memorial for Heberto Padilla (NOTEBOOK), Dec., 84;
• Liberated by America a review of Itinerary: an Intellectual Journey by Octavio Paz (BOOKS), Feb., 68

Simon, John

• The other Rota on the classical music of Nino Rota (MUSIC), Sept., 53

Sisman, Adam

• Boswell’s “Life” (Letter), May, 80

Smith, Patrick J.

• Seattle’s new “Ring” (MUSIC), Oct., 55;
• Onstage politics on the premiere of Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking, at the San Francisco Opera (MUSIC), Dec., 57;
• The egghead’s “Gioconda” on Busoni’s Doktor Faust at the Metropolitan Opera (MUSIC), Mar., 48;
• Filling the Philharmonic’s podium on Kurt Masur’s tenure at the NYPO (MUSIC), Apr., 52;
• Opera note on The Gambler by Sergei Prokofiev at the Metropolitan Opera (MUSIC), May, 55;
• Concert note on the Guarneri String Quartet at Carnegie Hall (MUSIC), June, 62

Smith, William Jay

• The Marianne Mynah: a memoir of Marianne Moore, Oct., 22

Steele, Timothy

• Starr Farm Beach (Poem), Jan., 37;
• Snow (Poem), Jan., 38

Steyn, Mark

• A theatrical cipher reviews of Avow by Bill C. Davis, The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman & The Man Who Came To Dinner by George Kaufman and Moss Hart (THEATER), Sept., 35;
• Go and Spoon no more reviews of Where Everything is Everything by Stephen Spoonamore, The Two Noble Kinsmen by William Shakespeare & A Busy Day by Fanny Burney (THEATER), Oct., 45;
• Playful, at times savage reviews of The Best Man by Gore Vidal, Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward & A Lesson Before Dying by Romulus Linney (THEATER), Nov., 43;
• The know nothings reviews of The Full Monty by Lawrence Law & The Dinner Party by Neil Simon (THEATER), Dec., 44;
• The measure of smartness reviews of Reading Lyrics: More Than a Thousand of the Century’s Finest Lyrics Robert Gottlieb & Robert Kimball, editors, Jane Eyre by Paul Gordon & John Caird & Susan Stroman’s The Music Man (THEATER), Jan., 40;
• Covering the classics reviews of Stephen Berkoff’s Shakespeare’s Villains: A Masterclass in Evil, Old Money by Wendy Wasserstein, Proof by David Auburn & Jason Robards (THEATER), Feb., 39;
• London & New York reviews of Feelgood by Alistair Beaton, Deborah Warner’s Medea, Annie Get Your Gun by Irving Berlin & Seussical: The Musical by Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty (THEATER), Mar., 38;
• Policy paper plays reviews of Boy Gets Girl by Rebecca Gilman, Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom by David Zellnik & Saved by Edward Bond (THEATER), Apr., 38;
• The ghosts of the ghosts of Broadway past on Follies by Stephen Sondheim (THEATER), May, 35;
• The authentic spirit of Broadway on The Producers by Mel Brooks (THEATER), June, 40

Teichman, Jenny

• Kuhn’s irrationalism (Letter), Sept., 84;
• Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde a review of A Darwinian Left by Peter Singer & Singer and His Critics Dale Jamieson, editor (BOOKS), Oct., 64;
• “The grisly science of embryo cloning” (NOTEBOOK), June, 84

Tomlinson, Charles

• In the hallway (Poem), June, 38;
• The rain is over (Poem), June, 39

Velkley, Richard

• The difficulty with Hegel (Letter), Oct., 79

Watman, Max

• Shorter notice on Demonology by Rick Moody (BOOKS), Feb., 76

Wilkin, Karen

• The splendid Chardin a review of Chardin at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (ART), Sept., 40;
• Rudy Burckhardt, 1914–1999 reviews of Rudy Burckhardt and Friends: New York Artists of the 1950s and ’60s at the Grey Art Gallery at New York University, Rudy Burckhardt: Selected Photographs 1940–1999 & Remembering Rudy at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York (ART), Oct., 50;
• Rembrandt & Venice a review of Rembrandt and the Venetian Influence at the Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York (ART), Nov., 48;
• Lee Krasner in Brooklyn a review of Lee Krasner at the Brooklyn Museum of Art (ART), Dec., 49;
• Baschenis at the Met a review of The Still Lives of Evaristo Baschenis: The Music of Silence at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (ART), Jan., 46;
• Making the case for figuration a review of Reconfiguring the New York School at the Center for Figurative Painting, New York (ART), Feb., 44;
• The potency of pure painting: Manet’s still lifes a review of Manet: The Still-Life Paintings at The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore (ART), Mar., 28;
• Rome away from Rome a review of The Genius of Rome at the Royal Academy, London (ART), Apr., 43;
• Fresh looks at van Gogh reviews of Van Gogh’s Postman: The Portraits of Joseph Roulin at the Museum of Modern Art, New York & Vincent van Gogh and the Painters of the Petit Boulevard at the Saint Louis Museum of Art (ART), May, 21;
• Vermeer’s World a review of Vermeer and the Delft School at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (ART), June, 46

Wilkinson, Richard

• P.C. medicine (Letter), Apr., 79

Wilson, Robley

• December in Florida (Poem), Sept., 34

Winegarten, Renee

• Women & politics: Madame de Duras, Nov., 21

Witek, Terri

• Master knife (one woodblock extant) (Poem), June, 37

Yezzi, David

• "The order passion yields”: i.m. Edgar Bowers (NOTEBOOK), Nov., 77;
• Shorter notice, on Other Traditions by John Ashbery (BOOKS), Feb., 75;
• Shorter notice on The Selected Letters of Yvor Winters R. L. Barth, editor (BOOKS), Mar., 69