Index

The New Criterion

Volume 20

September 2001 – June 2002

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Allen, Brooke

• Edith Wharton’s accomplishment, Sept., 33;
• Laurence Sterne by Ian Campbell Ross, Jan., 22;
• G. A. Henty and the vision of empire, on the author, April, 20

Allen, Dick

• France (POEM), Feb., 33

Baer, William

• Borges (POEM), June, 48

Bauerlein, Mark

• Ideas as anecdotes a review of The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand (BOOKS), Oct., 67;
• Classroom politics a review of The Reckless Mind by Mark Lilla (BOOKS), April, 76

Becker, Jillian

• Simone Weil: A saint for our time?, Mar., 15

Bork, Robert H.

• Adversary jurisprudence ninth in the series “The survival of culture,” May, 4

Bowman, James

• Chandraology on scandal stories & their cause (THE MEDIA), Sept., 90;
• Bring back the duel! on accusations of bad faith in politics (THE MEDIA), Oct., 58;
• Cranks & clichés on the pseudo-insights of those j writing about September 11 (THE MEDIA), j Nov., 62;
• Came the farce of worryism on reporting & public hysteria (THE MEDIA), Dec., 72;
• Their pretty little heads on women writing about politics (THE MEDIA), Jan., 56;
• The charges & countercharges of self-righteous prigs on Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes how the Media Distorts the News by Bernard Goldberg (THE MEDIA), Feb., 58;
• Reporting innuendo on the Enron scandal (THE MEDIA), Mar. 57;
• Lessons in humility on the shift in war reportage (THE MEDIA), April, 62;
• Intemperate political rhetoric on media ethics (THE MEDIA), May, 61;
• Irrevocable vulgarization on Washington’s cow parade & Ted Koppel (THE MEDIA), June, 70

Buckley, Jr., William F.

• Imperishable insights a review of Making Patriots by Walter Berns (BOOKS), Sept., 102

Champa, Kermit S.

• Developing in reverse: Signac at the Metropolitan, Dec., 39

Coleman, Alexander

• “Dallas” auf Deutsch on Wagners & Bayreuth (MUSIC), Dec., 67;
• Concert note on Ivan Moravec at Carnegie Hall (MUSIC), Jan., 54;
• Houses of repute a review of Molto Agitato by Johanna Fiedler; Covent Garden: The Untold Story by Norman Lebrecht & Valery Gergiev & the Kirov by John Ardoin (BOOKS), Mar., 68

Congdon, Tim

• Surtees & money, June, 33

Dalrymple, Theodore

• Arrested development on Oscar Wilde (NOTEBOOK), June, 93

Daniels, Anthony

• Shorter notice on The Politics of Sex & Other Essays by Robert Grant (BOOKS), Sept., 118;
• The felicific calculus of modern medicine third in the series “The survival of culture,” Nov., 4;
• Guerrillophilia & the sincerely frivolous on Senior Service by Carlo Feltrinelli, Feb., 27;
• A contented mandarin a review of Darwin’s Audubon by Gerald Weissmann (BOOKS ), Mar., 65

Davenport, Guy

• A folklorish giant on Alfred Russel Wallace (BOOKS), Nov., 79

Davis, William Virgil

• Poem ending with a variation on a line by Charles Wright (POEM), Dec., 50;
• Courtyard looking toward Artemis from west cloister (POEM), Dec., 51

Dean, Paul

• March to the scaffold a review of The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh edited by Michael Rudick (BOOKS), Sept., 111;
• Empson’s contradictions on The Complete Poems of William Empson edited by John Haffenden, Oct., 23;
• All that glisters a review of Philip Sidney: A Double Life by Alan Stewart (BOOKS), Jan., 68;
• Much virtue in “if” a review of Ungentle Shakespeare by Katherine Duncan-Jones (BOOKS), April, 75;
• Where Eagletons dare a review of The Gatekeeper: A Memoir by Terry Eagleton (BOOKS), June, 87

Derbyshire, John

• The age of bad ideas a review of Life at the Bottom by Theodore Dalrymple (BOOKS), Jan., 71;
• The uses of quietism a review of Dao De Jing: The Book of the Way translated by Moss Roberts (BOOKS), April, 70

Downing, Ben

• Past divertissement a review of The Lyttleton Hart-Davis Letters edited by Roger Hudson & The Marsh Marlowe Letters edited by Brown Craig Brown (BOOKS), Oct., 72

Epstein, Daniel Mark

• James Merrill, on his collected poems, Mar., 24

Epstein, Joseph

• Dwight Macdonald, Nov., 25

Falcoff, Mark

• The historiographical earthquake a review of Spain Betrayed edited by Ronald Radosh, Mary W. Harbeck & Grigory Sevostianov, Sept., 58

Franklin, James

• Spheres & cubes a review of Mathematical Mountaintops by John L. Casti (BOOKS), Feb., 72

Fuller, Timothy

• “Deviously implicit faith”: Maurice Cowling on religion, April, 25

Glueck, Grace

• Chelsea: galleries & garages on Chelsea’s art district (NOTEBOOK), Dec., 99

Greenberg, Martin

• Burke and political liberty, seventh in the series “The survival of culture,” Mar., 4

Griswold, Charles L., Jr.

• Philosophers as radicals a professor’s reflections on his radical youth (NOTEBOOK), Oct., 76

Gross, John

• Another painful lesson on the British press’s coverage of September 11 (LONDON JOURNAL), Nov., 38;
• In the year of Jubilee on the upcoming celebrations (LONDON JOURNAL), June, 51

Hart, Jeffrey

• A lost lady a review of When Men Were the Only Models We Had by Carolyn G. Heilbrun (BOOKS), Jan., 65;
• The “deliberate sense” of Willmoore Kendall (NOTEBOOK), Mar., 76

Hollander, Paul

• Which god has failed? on the tenacity of leftist ideology (NOTEBOOK), Feb., 76

Jacobs, Laura

• Petipaw (DANCE), Mar., 42

Kennedy, X. J.

• Edna St. Vincent Millay’s doubly burning candles a review of What My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Daniel Mark Epstein & Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford (BOOKS), Sept., 96

Kimball, Roger

• What did Kierkegaard want?, Sept., 19;
• The new anti-Americanism, Oct., 17;
• Exhibition Note on Czech Cubism, 1912–1916, at the Rupertinum, Salzburg (ART), Oct., 43;
• Charles Péguy, Nov., 15;
• Wrong turns on “Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964–1977” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Dec., 22;
• At home abroad a review of Letters from England by Karel Capek (BOOKS), Jan., 73;
• George Santayana, Feb., 18;
• Socialism: an obituary, April, 15;
• Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: a “spy on humanity,” May, 20;
• The fortunes of permanence, tenth in the series “The survival of culture,” June, 4

Klehr, Harvey & John E. Haynes

• Radical history, June, 17

Kramer, Hilton

• Our spiritual legacy a review of Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe by Jeffrey Hart (BOOKS), Oct., 74;
• The man who created MOMA on Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Dec., 16;
• The strange case of D. S. Mirsky, Jan., 17

Kunitz, Daniel

• Exhibition note on Clyfford Still: Paintings 1944–1960 at the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (ART), Oct., 39;
• Gallery chronicle reviews of Philip-Lorca diCorcia at PaceWildenstein; Grace Hartigan at ACA Galleries; Dorothea Tanning at the Zabriskie Gallery & Whiting Tennis at Derek Eller Gallery (ART), Nov., 51;
• Gallery chronicle reviews of John Koch at the New-York Historical Society; Morris Louis at Paul Kasmin Gallery; Catherine Murphy at Lennon, Weinberg, Inc. & Richard Serra at Gagosian Gallery (ART), Dec., 58;
• Exhibition notes on Inheriting Cubism at Hollis Taggert Galleries & Shahzia Sikander in Conversations with Traditions at Asia Society (ART), Feb., 46;
• Compressed narratives, minute actions a review of Surrealist Collage at the Zabriskie Gallery & The Quintet of Remembrance by Bill Viola at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (ART), Mar., 47;
• Exhibition note on The Artist’s Hand: Willem de Kooning Drawings at Mitchell-Innes & Nash (ART), April, 52;
• Gallery chronicle reviews of Balthus’s Midsummer Night’s Dream & L’ Attente at C&M Arts; Arshile Gorky: Portraits at Gagosian Gallery & H.W. Janson & the Legacy of Modern Art at Salander-O’Reilly Galleries (ART), May, 48;
• Exhibition note on Stuart Davis: Major Late Paintings at Salander-O’Reilly Galleries (ART), June, 63

Lamon, Laurie

• Separating the flowers (POEM), Feb., 32

Lewis, Michael J.

• Louis Sullivan after functionalism, Sept., 50;
• The realism of Thomas Eakins, Dec., 27;
• Ego, vanity & megalomania a review of Frank Lloyd Wright & Lewis Mumford: Thirty Years of Correspondence edited by Bruce Brook Pfeiffer & Robert Wojtowicz (BOOKS), May, 72

Lewis, Tess

• W. G. Sebald, Dec., 85;
• Eyes wide open a review of Night Games & Other Stories & Novellas by Arthur Schnitzler, translated by Margret Schaefer (BOOKS), December, 80

Logan, William

• All over the map reviews of Nativity Poems by Joseph Brodsky; Against Love Poetry by Eavan Boland; The Long Marriage by Maxine Kumin; Rooms Are Never Finished by Agha Shahid Ali; Landscape with Chainsaw by James Lasdun & A Treatise of Poetry by Czeslaw Milosz (VERSE CHRONICLE), Dec., 77;
• Bank voles at Trinity College, Cambridge (POEM), Mar., 33;
• Odalisque (POEM), Mar., 35;
• An ordinary afternoon in New Haven (POEM), Mar., 36;
• Falls the Shadow reviews of A Short History of the Shadow by Charles Wright; Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry by Alan Dugan; The Watercourse by Cynthia Zarin; Belonging by Dick Davis; Never by Jorie Graham & The Orchards of Syon by Geoffrey Hill (VERSE CHRONICLE), June, 75

Mermelstein, David

• Opera note on Der Kaiser von Atlantis by Viktor Ullmann at the Cincinnati May Festival (MUSIC), Oct., 56

Messenger, Robert

• Prosecuting War a review of War Diaries, 1939–1945 by Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke (BOOKS), Dec., 93;
• Wellington, well done a review of Salamanca by Rory Muir (BOOKS), April, 79;
• To the shores of Tripoli a review of The Savage Wars of Peace by Max Boot (BOOKS), June, 90

Meyers, Jeffrey

• Shorter notice of Dangerous Muse: The Life of Lady Caroline Blackwood by Nancy Schoenberger (BOOKS), Sept., 120;
• Be brave a review of Iris Murdoch by Peter Conradi (BOOKS), Feb., 68;
• The seventh seal a review of Ted Hughes by Elaine Feinstein (BOOKS), Mar., 72

Mills, Wilmer

• Remembering Grand Isle (Poem), Dec., 51;
• Black Skimmers on the Gulf Coast (Poem), Feb., 34

Minogue, Kenneth

• The new Epicureans first in the series “The survival of culture,” Sept., 6;
• Hayek’s prophetic skepticism, May, 26

Moran, Moore

• Late in the night (POEM), April, 40

Morgan, Frederick

• Recollections of Japan (POEM), Sept., 75;
• The dream (POEM), Sept., 77;
• Pasiphaë (POEM), Sept., 78

Morrone, Francis

• Do architecture critics matter?, April, 31

Morson, Gary Saul

• Isaac Babel’s genre of silence a review of The Complete Works of Isaac Babel (BOOKS), Jan., 62;
• The art & life of Dostoevsky a review of Dostoevsky by Joseph Frank (BOOKS), June, 83

Mullen, Alexandra

• A Gulliver among swans a review of Hans Christian Andersen by Jackie Wullschlager (BOOKS), Sept., 115;
• Step right up a review of Inventing the Victorians by Matthew Sweet (BOOKS), May, 76

Naves, Mario

• Exhibition note on The various Alex Katz, Dec., 47;
• Exhibition note on H.C. Westerman at the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. (ART), May, 53

Nordlinger, Jay

• Kidsplay the early careers of Alexander Sitkovetsky, Han-Na Chang, Matt Haimovitz, Piotr Anderszewski, Monica Groop, Ian Bostridge, Natalie Dessay & Olli Mustonen (MUSIC), Sept., 85;
• What Westminster wrought on the recently reissued Westminster Recordings (MUSIC), Oct., 49;
• New York chronicle reviews of the start of the season for the New York Philharmonic & the Metropolitan Opera (MUSIC), Nov., 55;
• New York chronicle reviews of the Chicago Symphony, Evgeny Kissin & Anne-Sophie Mutter at Carnegie Hall, the Met’s new production of Verdi’s Luisa Miller & Sarah Chang with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra (MUSIC), Dec., 63;
• New York chronicle reviews of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger at the Met, Renée Fleming & Jean-Yves Thibaudet at Carnegie Hall, Ewa Podles & Garrick Ohlsson at Alice Tully Hall, Neeme Jarvi with the New York Philharmonic & the Met’s Arabella by Strauss (MUSIC), Jan., 50;
• New York chronicle reviews of Valery Gergiev & the Kirov Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Hansel und Gretel by Humperdinck & Don Carlo by Verdi at the Met, Vespers by Rachmaninoff at Park Avenue’s Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, the New York Philharmonic playing Valses nobles et sentimentales by Ravel, Dances of Galanta by Kodaly & Strauss’s Rosenkavalier Suite (MUSIC), Feb., 49;
• New York chronicle reviews of Yefim Bronfman with the New York Philharmonic, Michelle DeYoung at Weill Recital Hall, Radu Lupu at Carnegie Hall, Orchestre de Paris at Carnegie Hall, Shostakovich played by Hillary Hahn & the Concertgebouw conducted by Chailly (MUSIC), Mar., 50;
• New York chronicle reviews of Barbara Bonney with Malcolm Martineau at Carnegie Hall, Garrick Ohlsson, Roberto Abbado with the Philadelphia Orchestra & David Daniels (MUSIC), April, 54;
• New York chronicle reviews of Leon Fleisher, Masur’s valedictory concerts, Sly with Placido Domingo at the Met, Anne Sofie von Otter at Alice Tully Hall & Ozawa & Rostropovich at Carnegie Hall with the Boston Symphony Orchestra (MUSIC), May, 55;
• New York chronicle reviews of Handel’s Agrippina at City Opera, Sir Colin Davis with the New York Philharmonic, Krystian Zimerman at Carnegie Hall & Christine Sch„fer at Alice Tully Hall (MUSIC), June, 66

Notes & Comments

• “The New Criterion” at twenty, Sept., 1;
• Introducing Andante.com on the new internet site Sept., 4;
• America’s wake-up call on the Left’s reactions to September 11, Oct., 1;
• A burst of clarity on V. S. Naipaul and the Nobel Prize, Nov., 1;
• Absolute relativism on the academic left and September 11, Nov., 2;
• “The New Criterion” on art on the issue’s special art section, Dec., 1;
• Ernst Gombrich, 1909–2001 on the death of the respected critic, Dec., 2;
• The silver lining dept. on Matthew Barney, Dec., 3;
• The struggles of Anthony Lewis on his departure from the Times, Jan., 1;
• “Everybody’s doing it,” on the Sara Jane Olson trial, Jan., 3;
• Harvard’s black comedy on Cornel West and the Black Studies Department, Feb., 1;
• Repealing history on the FDNY and a 9/11 memorial sculpture, Feb., 2;
• This way to the egress on Okwui Enwezor and Documenta, Mar., 1;
• The reward of radicalism on Susan Sontag, Mar., 2;
• Higher education, Berkeley style on pornography for college credit, Mar., 3;
• Rise of the Eurocrats on the EU and totalitarianism, April, 1;
• More Britney Spears John Rockwell leaves the Times, April, 2;
• The new Gleichschaltung on the thought police in Brussels, May, 1;
• The new generation’s fools on the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe, May, 1;
• Harvard’s black comedy II on Cornel West’s departure to Princeton, May, 2;
• Sun rise on the debut of The New York Sun, May, 3;
• A note of thanks on The New Criterion’s 20th anniversary year, June, 1;
• Conservatives need not apply on politics in the Berkeley English department, June, 2

Ormsby, Eric

• The battle of the book second in the series “The survival of culture,” Oct., 4;
• Orpheus with arsenic a review of François Villon’s The Legacy and The Testament translated by Louis Simpson (BOOKS), Feb., 63

Panero, James

• Exhibition note on Along the Nile: Early Photographs of Egypt at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (ART), Dec., 61;
• Exhibition note on Surrealism: Desire Unbound at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (ART), May, 51

Penrose, James S.

• Inventing Claude Debussy, June, 41

Pinsker, Sanford

• Life in Yiddishland a review of Yiddish: A Nation of Words by Miriam Weinstein (BOOKS), Feb., 74

Pryce-Jones, David

• The exemplar: Ignazio Silone, Sept., 28;
• We are waging a just war, Nov., 21;
• A malign legacy fourth in the series “The survival of culture,” Dec., 4;
• A complete moral void a review of Anthony Blunt: his lives by Miranda Carter (BOOKS), Mar., 62

Rathburn, Chelsea

• Letters from minor loves (Poem), Nov., 35

Russello, Gerald J.

• Defensor linguae a review of Latin: Or the Empire of a Sign by Françoise Waquet (BOOKS), Dec., 95

Schaub, Diana

• The pillars of the temple of liberty eighth in the series “The survival of culture,” April, 4

Schmertz, Mildred

• More & more Mies on Mies in Berlin at the Museum of Modern Art & Mies in America at the Whitney Museum of American Art (ARCHITECTURE), Oct., 45

Schwartz, Stephen

• Rewriting George Orwell, Sept., 63;
• A fable for our time a review of The Perfect Heresy by Stephen O’Shea; The Cathars by Malcolm Barber & The Yellow Cross by René Weis (BOOKS), Oct., 67

Silvera, Alain

• The muddle set straight a review of In the Anglo-Arab Labyrinth: The McMahon-Husayn Correspondence and Its Interpretations, 1914–1939 by Elie Kedourie (BOOKS), Sept., 107

Simon, John

• Oscar: six acts at the Morgan a review of Oscar Wilde: A Life in Six Acts at the Morgan Library (BOOKS), Jan., 77

Skwire, Sarah

• Canso (after Rudel) (Poem), May, 40;
• Enueg (Poem), May, 42

Slavitt, David R.

• Intruder (Poem), Nov., 35

Smith, Patrick J.

• Salzburg 2001: Mortier’s last stand on the last Salzburg festival directed by Gérard Mortier, Oct., 52;
• Seattle’s new “Ring” on Seattle Opera’s performance of Wagner’s Ring cycle (MUSIC), Nov., 59;
• The Glimmerglass Festival (MUSIC), Nov., 61;
• Opera in New York on performances at the Manhattan School of Music, revivals of Die Meistersinger & Arabella & Strauss’s Frau ohne Schatten at the Met (MUSIC), Feb., 54;
• Whither the “Philadelphia Sound”? on The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts (MUSIC), Mar., 54;
• An operatic baggy monster on War & Peace at the Met (MUSIC), April, 59;
• Concert notes on Parade at the Met & Tristan und Isolde at Avery Fisher Hall (MUSIC), May, 59

Smith, William Jay

• Golden Spark, little saint a review of Little Saint by Hannah Green (BOOKS), Sept., 103;
• The hunt (Poem), Nov., 34

Spires, Elizabeth

• Triptych (Poem), Oct., 31;
• Grass (Poem), Oct., 32;
• Curio (Poem), Oct., 33

Stepanchev, Stephen

• A Serb on black mountain (Poem), Nov., 37

Steyn, Mark

• Mordecai Richler, 1931–2001 (NOTEBOOK), Sept., 123;
• Loveless rendering reviews of Mother Clap’s Molly House by Mark Ravenhill; Urinetown: the Musical by Mark Hollman & Greg Kotis; Snatches by Laura Strausfield; Peggy Sue Got Married by Bob Gaudio & Doing Justice by Adina Taubman (THEATER), Oct., 34;
• In the wake reviews of Exit the King by Eugene Ionesco; Rude Entertainment by Paul Rudnick; Ovid’s Metamorphoses directed by Mary Zimmerman & Broadway in the wake of Sept. 11 (THEATER), Nov., 41;
• Plum on Broadway on Andrew Lloyd Webber & By Jeeves (THEATER), Dec., 53;
• A trifle & a substantial reviews of 45 Seconds from Broadway by Neil Simon & [sic] by Melissa James Gibson (THEATER), Jan., 40;
• The slyer virus: the West’s anti-Westernism sixth in the series “The survival of culture,” Feb., 4;
• Goin’ to Afghanistan on Homebody/Kabul by Tony Kushner (THEATER), Feb., 35;
• Bogeymen & aspirates reviews of Brutal Imagination by Cornelius Eady & Deidre Murray & Further than the Furthest Thing by Zinnie Harris (THEATER), Mar., 37;
• A peerless phraser & a Disney remake reviews of Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends; Elaine Stritch at Liberty & One Man by Steven Berkoff (THEATER), April, 41;
• Oklahoma? on the British invasion of American theater (THEATER), May, 43;
• Ee-i-ee-i-o on The Goat by Edward Albee (THEATER), June, 54

Stove, R. J.

• Roar of the greasepaint a review of Pietro Mascagni: A Bio-Bibliography by Roger Flury (BOOKS), Sept., 114;
• Tenebrous Teutons a review of German Opera by John Warrack (BOOKS), May, 79

Thaw, E. V.

• Bruegel the Elder at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dec., 44;
• Pierre Matisse & his artists (NOTEBOOK), May, 83

Tillinghast, Richard

• The asymmetrical George Moore on George Moore, 1852–1933 by Adrian Frazier, Jan., 30

Tomlinson, Charles

• If Bach had been a beekeeper (POEM), April, 37;
• The runners at San Benedetto (POEM), April, 38;
• The Estrucan graveyard at Marzabotto (POEM), April, 39

Warren, Deborah

• Clay & flame (POEM), Jan., 37;
• Prepositions (POEM), Jan., 38
• Dido, it would have ended anyway (POEM), Jan., 39

Watman, Max

• On the hysterical playground a review of The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen; After the Plague & Other Stories by T. C. Boyle; Up in the Air by Walter Kirn; John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead; The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon & Pafko at the Wall by Don DeLillo (FICTION CHRONICLE), Nov., 67;
• Guileless games a review of Spies by Michael Frayn; A Multitude of Sins by Richard Ford; The Dive From Clausen’s Pier by Ann Packer; Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer & Roscoe by William Kennedy (FICTION CHRONICLE), May, 66

Wilkin, Karen

a review of Beyond the Easel: Decorative paintings by Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis & Roussel, 1890–1930, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (ART), Sept., 79;
• Eilshemius rediscovered again a review of Louis M. Eilshemius: An Independent Spirit at the National Academy of Design & Louis Eilshemius Imagine That! at Gallery Gertrude Stein (ART), Nov., 46;
• Sculpture in the void: Giacometti at MOMA (ART), Dec., 33;
• The Neue Galerie (ART), Jan., 45;
• Paris in winter: thank heaven for Morandi a review of Giorgio Morandi at the Musée D’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (ART), Feb., 40;
• Father & daughter at the Met a review of Orazio & Artemisia Gentileschi (ART), April, 41;
• Gerhard Richter at MOMA a review of Gerhard Richter (ART), May, 34;
• A celebration of painting in Boston a review of Impressionist Still Life at the Museum of Fine Arts (ART), June, 59

Wiman, Christian

• Sleeping in the open (POEM), June, 49;
• A field in Scurry County (POEM), June, 50

Windschuttle, Keith

• The fabrication of Aboriginal history, Sept., 41;
• The cultural war on Western civilization fifth in the series “The survival of culture,” Jan., 4;
• Why the West wins wars a review of Carnage and Culture by Victor Davis Hanson (BOOKS), April, 67;
• Steinbeck’s myth of the Okies, June, 24

Wineapple, Brenda

• Sybille Bedford: the best she can do (NOTEBOOK), May, 86

Winegarten, Renee

• Proust before Proust a review of Marcel Proust: The Complete Short Stories (BOOKS), Dec., 90

Yezzi, David

• The Violence of Allen Tate, Sept., 66