The New Criterion


		Index The New Criterion Volume 21 September 2002 – June 2003 *Allen, Brooke* Devouring egomania a review of A Daring Young Man: A Biography of William Saroyan by John Leggett (BOOKS), Nov., 77; The irrepressible Pepys a review of Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin, Jan., 14; Who was Simon Raven?, April, 9; A nose for the bogus a review of As of This Writing: The Essential Essays, 1968–2002 by Clive James (BOOKS), June, 76 *Anderson, Digby* Intellectual decadence a review of Discontents: Postmodern and Postcommunist by Paul Hollander (BOOKS), Sept., 76; Dubious moralisms part of a special section on Anti-Americanism, Nov., 31 *Arkes, Hadley* The prophets today a review of The Prophets: Who They Were, What They Are by Norman Podhoretz (BOOKS), Jan., 62 *Arkin, Marc* Big Ben a review of Benjamin Franklin by Edmund Sears Morgan (BOOKS), Oct., 67 *Bannard, Darby* The future of abstract art a reply to Hilton Kramer (LETTER), June, 89 *Barber, David* Rogue Moss (POEM), April, 39 *Bauerlein, Mark* What went wrong? a review of A Reader’s Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose by B. R. Myers (BOOKS), Dec., 84 *Blainey, Geoffrey* Native fiction a review of The Fabrication of Aboriginal History. Volume I, Van Diemen’s Land 1803–1847 by Keith Windschuttle (BOOKS), April, 79 *Bork, Mary Ellen* Uncommon pilgrims a review of The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage by Paul Elie (BOOKS), June, 82 *Bork, Robert H.* Dismantling the law a review of Courting Disaster: The Supreme Court and the Unmaking of American Law by Martin Garbus (BOOKS), Nov., 72 *Bowman, James* The aristocracy of feeling (THE MEDIA), Sept., 62; Debating Iraq on the arguments for and against going to war in Iraq (THE MEDIA), Oct., 57; The scandal lobby on underhanded political journalism (THE MEDIA), Nov., 60; They still don’t get it on writers who personalize historical events (THE MEDIA), Dec., 69; “Media bias” revisited on liberal biases, particularly in The New York Times (THE MEDIA), Jan., 54; Confidence motion on the inquisition of Trent Lott (THE MEDIA), Feb., 59; Himalayan self-righteousness on the media’s anti-Bush bias (THE MEDIA), Mar., 59; Rather not on Dan Rather’s recent interview with Saddam Hussein (THE MEDIA), April, 69; Superior to the truth on media coverage of the war in Iraq (THE MEDIA), May, 58; Spurious objectivity on the problems of objectivity, rather than fairness, as a goal of print and television journalism (THE MEDIA), June, 63 *Brown, Michael F.* relatively speaking a reply to Keith Windschuttle (LETTER), Dec., 95 *Buckley Jr., William F.* Who’s he? a review of* Snobbery: The American Version by Joseph Epstein* (BOOKS), Sept., 67 *Campbell, Scott* A mild & harmless relativism? on the defense of moral relativism on the political right and left, Feb., 30 *Carne-Ross, D. S.* Horace for our time? a review of Horace: The Odes. New Translations by Contemporary Poets edited by J. D. McClatchy (BOOKS), Feb., 68 *Coleman, Alexander* The gypsy balladeer a review of Collected Poems: A Bilingual Edition by Federico Garcia Lorca, edited by Christopher Maurer (BOOKS), Oct., 65 *Congdon, Tim* A ramshackle polemic a review of Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph E. Stiglitz (BOOKS), Nov., 81 *Cook, Justine* Venice (POEM), Mar., 35 *Dalrymple, Theodore* The anatomy of murder an examination of murder through two crime novels, Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles and Hide and Seek by Ian Rankin, Feb., 23; Cliquez ici for Alexandria on this ancient city and its library (NOTEBOOK), Mar., 77; Anglo-saxon attitudes on what the French are reading (LETTER FROM PARIS), April, 44 *Daniels, Anthony* The Baroness Munchausen of sex a review of The Sexual Life of Catherine M. by Catherine Millet (BOOKS), Sept., 73; Dubai, Havana & choosing between evils on bookshops in both cities, Oct., 29; Ivan Illich, 1926–2002 (NOTEBOOK), Jan., 78; I spy a review of The Unsleeping Eye: A History of Secret Police and Their Victims by Robert J. Stove (BOOKS), April, 84; Up from communism on the Soviet literature with which the author grew up, May, 28; Reply to R. J. Stove (LETTER), June, 90 *Davenport, Guy* Master taxonomist a review of Linnaeus: The Compleat Naturalist by Wilfred Blunt (BOOKS), Jan., 76 *Davis, Dick* Poetry: a prognosis on the difficulty for the reader of contemporary poetry, April, 28 *Dean, Paul* Beyond morality a review of Christopher Marlowe: A Renaissance Life by Constance Brown Kuriyama (BOOKS), Dec., 88; Hail, Muse! Etc. a review of Byron: Life and Legend by Fiona MacCarthy (BOOKS), June, 84 *Derbyshire, John* Yearning to be liked part of a special section on Anti-Americanism,Nov., 25; What happened to Aldous Huxley? on the popular neglect of this prescient writer, Feb., 13; E pluribus plurimum a review of Diversity: The Invention of a Concept by Peter Wood (BOOKS), Mar.,64; The apple in our eye a review of Newton: The Making of Genius by Patricia Fara (BOOKS), May, 73 *Downing, Ben* Two ’berds in the hand a review ofThe Very Best of the Daily Telegraph Books of Obituariesedited by Hugh Massingberd & Daydream Believerby Hugh Massingberd (BOOKS), Sept., 78; My Maso problem a review of Beauty is Convulsive: The Passion of Frida Kahlo by Carole Maso (BOOKS), Feb., 78; Fontanelle (POEM), April, 42 *Epstein, Daniel Mark* Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) (POEM), Feb., 37 *Epstein, Joseph* The intimate abstraction of Paul Valéry on the publication of Cahiers/Notebooks by Paul Valéry , Mar., 17 *Fairchild, B. H.* Poetic licence a reply to William Logan (LETTER), April, 88 *Franklin, James* Big science a review of A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram (BOOKS), Jan., 73; Prime problem a review of Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics by John Derbyshire (BOOKS), April, 82 *Frisardi, Andrew* Song (POEM), Mar., 33; May Day black locust (POEM), Mar., 34 *Frost, Gerald* The European Project part of a special section on Anti-Americanism ,Nov., 9 *Gibson, Eric* The writings of Henry Moore, Dec., 41 *Greenberg, Martin* “Don’t draw the bug!” a review of “The City of K--Franz Kafka and Prague” at the Jewish Museum ,Oct., 44 *Gross, John* Perfection at a price a review of Max Beerbohm: A Kind of Life by N. John Hall (BOOKS), Nov., 85; A tale of two Tonies (LONDON JOURNAL), Mar., 36; The elusive truth on the BBC series “Cambridge Spies,” on Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, and Anthony Blunt (LONDON JOURNAL), June, 35 *Gross, Paul R.* The Apotheosis of Stephen Jay Gould (NOTEBOOK), Oct., 77; Becoming Darwin a review of Charles Darwin: The Power of Place by Janet Browne (BOOKS), Feb., 71 *Hanson, Victor Davis* The lessons of Wellington a review of Wellington by Gordon Corrigan & Napoleon & Wellington by Andrew Roberts (BOOKS), Dec., 81; The war to begin all wars a review of The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan (BOOKS), April, 74 *Hart, Jeffrey* Theodore Dreiser in 1925, June, 22 *Hill, Geoffrey* Discourse: For Stanley Rosen (POEM), June, 32 *Hitchens, Peter* Another Tony a reply to John Gross (LETTER), April, 87 *Hollander, Paul* The politics of envy part of a special section on Anti-Americanism ,Nov., 14; Aspiration and reality a review of The Sweetest Dream by Doris Lessing (BOOKS), Mar., 71 *Jacobs, Laura* How good is the Kirov?, Sept., 12; Fight club a review of Movin’ Out by Twyla Tharp (DANCE), Dec., 55; Mark Morris at BAM (DANCE), June, 43 *Johnson, Paul* American empire: right or wrong?, June, 20 *Katz, Alex* Starting out, Dec., 4 *Kimball, Roger* The power of James Burnham, Sept., 4; Undressing the Victorians a review of “Exposed: The Victorian Nude” at The Brooklyn Museum, Oct., 13; Failures of nerve part of a special section on Anti-Americanism, Nov., 4; Architecture & ideology, Dec., 22; Why the West?, Jan., 4; Exhibition Note on “Park Avenue Cubists: Gallatin, Morris, Frelinghuysen, and Shaw” at the Grey Art Gallery (ART), Feb., 52; Vuillard’s mysteries on “Edouard Vuillard” at the National Gallery of Art , Mar., 5; Lessons from Juvenal, April, 4; Minimalist fantasies on the current vacuity of popular art and art criticism , May, 14; Malcolm Muggeridge’s journey, June, 14 *Kirsch, Adam* The patient lookers (POEM), Sept., 41; Indecision (POEM), Sept., 42; Winters’s curse on the influential critic and poet Yvor Winters , April, 32 *Klehr, Harvey & Haynes, John E.* The myth of “premature antifacism,” Sept., 19 *Kolakowski, Leszek* Can Europe happen? on the future of the European Union , May, 19 *Kramer, Hilton* Does abstract art have a future?, Dec., 9; Who reads Mencken now?, a review of The Skeptic: The Life of H. L. Mencken by Terry Teachout (BOOKS), Jan., 59; Remembering the Gulag a review of Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum (BOOKS), May, 70; Reply to Darby Bannard (LETTER), June, 90 *Kunitz, Daniel* Gallery chronicle reviews of Leland Bell at Salander-O’Reilly Galleries & Georg Baselitz at PaceWildenstein (ART), Oct., 48; Gallery chronicle reviews of Robert Reiman at PaceWildenstein & Elmer Bischoff & Paul Resika at Salander-O’Reilly Galleries & Jeff Wall at Marian Goodman Gallery (ART), Dec., 58 *Lewis, Michael J.* American sublime a review of “American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States 1820–1880,” Sept., 27; Art history, Oxford style, Dec., 17 *Lewis, Tess* A brighter, clearer light a review of The Author of Himself: The Life of Marcel Reich-Ranicki by Marcel Reich-Ranicki (BOOKS), Oct., 70 *Logan, William* The real language of men reviews of Book of My Nights by Li-Young Lee ; Now the Green Blade Rises by Elizabeth Spires ; Source by Mark Doty ; Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest by B. H. Fairchild ; The Nerve by Glyn Maxwell ; & Moy Sand and Gravel by Paul Muldoon (VERSE CHRONICLE), Dec., 73; Reply to B. H. Fairchild (LETTER), April, 88; Satanic mills reviews of The Unswept Room by Sharon Olds ; Jelly Roll (A Blues) by Kevin Young ; At the Palace of Jove by Karl Kirchwey ; Poems the Size of Photographs by Les Murray ; Springing: New and Selected Poems by Marie Ponsot ; & Middle Earth by Henri Cole (VERSE CHRONICLE), June, 68 *Lyons, Donald* Dark comedy reviews of Euripides. Vol. 5: Helen, Phoenician Women, Orestes & Vol. 6: The Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus edited by David Kovacs (BOOKS), May, 76 *Mahoney, Daniel J.* The chastened liberal a review of The Dawn of Universal History: Selected Essays from a Witness of the Twentieth Century by Raymond Aron (BOOKS), Oct., 62 *Maxwell, Glyn* The thirteenth storey (POEM), April, 37; Ghost out of work (POEM), April, 38 *Messenger, Robert* “I will be a hero” a review of Nelson: Love and Fame by Edgar Vincent (BOOKS), June, 80 *Meyers, Jeffrey* Thomas Hardy at war, Sept., 34; Johnson, Boswell & the biographer’s quest, Nov., 35; Lionel Trilling & the crisis at Columbia, Jan., 23; The good German a review of Thomas Mann: Life as a Work of Art: A Biography by Hermann Kurzke, translated by Leslie Wilson (BOOKS), Mar., 68 *Miller, John J.* Honor wagered a review of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation by W. S. Merwin (BOOKS), Dec., 90 *Minogue, Kenneth* Laughing matters a review of The Mirth of Nations by Christie Davies (BOOKS), Mar., 74; “Christophobia” and the West on the rising hatred of Christianity among Western peoples , June, 4 *Morrone, Francis* Profound perplexity a review of The Theory of Decorative Art: An Anthology of European & American Writings, 1750–1940 (BOOKS), Oct., 73 *Mosbacher, Michael & Anderson, Digby* Dubious moralisms part of a special section on Anti-Americanism ,Nov., 31 *Mullen, Alexandra* Beauty blasted a review of Wilfred Owen: A New Biography by Dominic Hibberd (BOOKS), Feb., 75 *Naves, Mario* Exhibition Note on “Stuart Davis: Art and Theory, 1920–1931” at the Pierpont Morgan Library (ART), Nov., 52; Exhibition note on “Masterpieces of European Painting from the Toledo Museum of Art” at the Frick Collection (ART), Dec., 62; Exhibition note on “Titian” at the National Gallery, London (ART), May, 48 *Nordlinger, Jay* Great conductors on recordings of André Cluytens, Karel Ancerl, Ferenc Fricsay, Nicolai Malko & Ataulfo Argenta (MUSIC), Sept., 57; Clever, entertaining, romantic on the big joys of “little opera” (MUSIC), Oct., 51; New York chronicle reviews of Lorin Maazel at the New York Philharmonic, The Metropolitan Opera’s opening night gala, Daniel Barenboim & the Chicago Symphony at Carnegie Hall, & Cecilia Bartoli at Carnegie Hall (MUSIC), Nov., 54; New York chronicle reviews of Anne-Sophie Mutter at Carnegie Hall, the Guarneri String Quartet, José van Dam, & the Montreal Symphony Orchestra (MUSIC), Dec., 64; New York chronicle reviews of Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and Anne-Marie McDermott at Alice Tully Hall, Maxim Vengerov and Hilary Hahn at Carnegie Hall, Alicia de Larrocha at Carnegie Hall , & Aida at the Metropolitan Opera (MUSIC), Jan., 46; New York chronicle reviews of Messiah by the New York Philharmonic, an all-Gershwin concert at Avery Fisher Hall, the pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, Leon Botstein’s Bruckner at the Bard Graduate Center, & Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites at the Met (MUSIC), Feb., 54; New York chronicle reviews of the Cleveland Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, the British soprano Jane Eaglen, the Russian pianist Arcadi Volodos, the Romanian pianist Radu Lupu, the pianist Garrick Ohlsson, a vocal recital in Weill Recital Hall, & the Met’s production of Janufa by Janacek (MUSIC), Mar., 53; New York chronicle reviews of the Emerson String Quartet at Carnegie Hall, an all-Hugo Wolf recital with Daniel Barenboim on piano at Carnegie Hall, Ned Rorem’s birthday concert at the Manhattan School of Music, the Ensemble Wien-Berlin at Alice Tully Hall, & the Philadelphia Orchestra, guest-conducted by Christoph Eschenbach, at Carnegie Hall (MUSIC), April, 64; New York chronicle reviews of the conductor Dennis Russell Davies’s recent appearance at Carnegie Hall with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra , Medusa by William Bolcom, the soprano Catherine Malfitano, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s “Bach Variations” festival, the appearances of the singers Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna in Faust at the Met, & the New York Philharmonic’s festival “Slava & Friends” (MUSIC), May, 50; Salzburg chronicle a review of the Easter Festival in Salzburg, at which the Berlin Philharmonic performed Bruckner’s Symphony No. 8, Hayden’s The Seasons, Beethoven’s Fidelio, & Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 (MUSIC), June, 58 *Notes & Comments* Déjà-vu I on Frances Fitzgerald’s Fire in the Lake, Sept., 1; Déjà-vu II on the legalization of marijuana* , Sept., 3;* Campus “diversity” on the skewed politics of colleges* , Oct., 1;* There she goes again on Susan Sontag and terrorism* , Oct., 3;* William Phillips, 1907–2002 in remembrance of the founding co-editor of* Partisan Review, Oct., 4;* Academic freedom for me but not for thee on Annie Sprinkle and Women’s Studies* , Nov., 1;* Rhetorical incontinence Maureen Dowd on President Bush* , Nov., 3;* Tenured adolescents on an email exchange between an Air Force cadet and a professor* , Dec., 1;* Meanwhile, at Cornell . . . on Cornell University’s health service’s selling vibrators* , Dec., 3;* Annals of transgression on “Suicide Mistaken for Art Performance,”* Jan., 1;* “Brave new world” watch on London transsexuals obtaining new birth certificates* , Jan., 2;* Stuck in the 1960s on “Borking Henry Kissinger,”* Jan., 3;* The diversity con game on the affirmative action debate* , Feb., 1;* Meanwhile, in Britain . . . on the British Musicians Union proposal to ban Israeli musicians from appearing in Britain* , Feb., 2;* . . . and in France on French anti-American rhetoric vis à vis the war with Iraq* , Feb., 3;* Roe v. Wade at 30 , Feb., 3; Squeals from the nursery on Laura Bush’s canceled White House poetry symposium , Mar., 1; If they holler . . . on manners after 9/11 , Mar., 2; Oleo olio on Matthew Barney’s new retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum , Mar., 3; Junk Mailer on Norman Mailer’s 7000-word diatribe in The New York Review of Books,April, 1; Politics and pedagogy on a college professor exploiting her students ,April, 3; Poets on poetry on the special poetry section in the current issue ,April, 3; The end of the line? on recent moves toward delegitimizing literary theory , May, 1; Annals of the BBC on the liberal bias of the BBC in its reporting on the war in Iraq ,May, 2; Farewell to PR on the folding of Partisan Review,May, 3; *Ormsby, Eric* Victor Hugo: The ghost in the pantheon a review of Victor Hugo: Selected Poems translated by Brooks Haxton & Selected Poems of Victor Hugo: A Bilingual Edition translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore , Oct., 23; Whispered disclosures a review of Complete Poems, by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Walter Martin (BOOKS), Jan., 67; The scabrous lyricism of Thomas Bernhard a review of Thomas Bernhard: The Making of an Austrian by Gitta Honegger & Three Novellas by Thomas Bernhard (BOOKS), Feb., 64; Shadow language on the influence of a foreign language on a poet’s native tongue , April, 22 *Panero, James* Erotic prudery? a review of “Greuze the Draftsman” at The Frick Collection (ART), Nov., 49; Bonnard’s “butterflies,” Dec., 32; Exhibition notes on “Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art” at the Fogg Art Museum & “Wolfgang Tillmans: Still Life” at the Busch-Reisinger Museum (ART), Feb., 49; Marsden Hartley & American modernism a review of “Marsden Hartley” at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (ART), Mar., 49; Gallery chronicle on “William Bailey” at Robert Miller Gallery ; “Paul Georges: Last Paintings” at Salander-O’Reilly Galleries ; “Marsden Hartley: New Mexico 1918–1920: An American Discovering America” at Alexandre Gallery ; “Wayne Thiebaud: Riverscapes 2002” at Allan Stone Gallery (ART), April, 60; The house gods of Elie Nadelman a review of “Elie Nadelman: Sculptor of Modern Life” at the Whitney Museum of American Art (ART), May, 44; Exhibition note on “Nell Blaine, Artist in the World: Works from the 1950s” at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery (ART), May, 47; Gallery chronicle on “Joel Shapiro: Recent Sculpture” at PaceWildenstein ; “Frank Stella: Recent Work” at Paul Kasmin Gallery ; “George Segal: Bronze” at Mitchell-Innes & Nash ; “Roy Lichtenstein on the Roof” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (ART), June, 55 *Penrose, James F.* Opera note on Les Troyens by Hector Berlioz at the Met (MUSIC), Mar., 57 *Propson, David* Shorter notice a review of The Book Against God by James Wood (BOOKS), June, 87 *Pryce-Jones, David* The sweetness of things a review of Trains of Thought: Memories of a Stateless Youth by Victor Brombert (BOOKS), Sept., 70; Albert Speer: the good Nazi? a review of Speer: The Final Verdict by Joachim Fest , Oct., 18; Retreats into fantasy part of a special section on Anti-Americanism, Nov., 20 Eric Hobsbawm: lying to the credulous,Jan., 9 *Rathburn, Chelsea* Teaching poetry at the school for the blind (POEM), Dec., 47; Love song (POEM), Dec., 48; Unused lines (POEM), Dec., 49 *Ruden, Sarah* A fortieth birthday poem to myself (POEM), May, 36; For the war dead (POEM), May, 37; After Ecclesiastes, Chapter 12 (POEM), May, 38 *Russello, Gerald* Love and error a review of Ovid: The Poet and His Work by Niklas Holzberg, translated by G. M. Goshgarian (BOOKS), Jan., 71 *Salter, Mary Jo* In the guesthouse (POEM), Jan., 29 *Scruton, Roger* Why I became a conservative, Feb., 4 *Shapiro, Harvey* Nights (POEM), Nov., 41 *Simon, John* From little acorns a review of Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God by A. C. Grayling (BOOKS), May, 78 *Smith, Patrick J.* Concert note on the 2002 Season at the Tanglewood Music Center (MUSIC), Oct., 54; Concert note on Galileo Galilei at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (MUSIC), Nov., 58; Concert notes on The San Francisco Opera’s production of Saint François d’Assise & La Pasión seg£n San Marco at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (MUSIC), Jan., 50; Concert note on David Robertson with the New York Philharmonic, Avery Fisher Hall (MUSIC), April, 68; The rise of the vocal recital (MUSIC), May, 55 *Spires, Elizabeth* Like Water (POEM), Oct., 34 *Stallings, A. E.* Mornings I walk past the first cemetery of Athens (POEM), April, 40; Variations on an old standard (POEM), April, 41 *Steyn, Mark* Stoppard’s “Utopia” (THEATER), Sept., 46; Good enough for Shakespeare? a review of The Boys From Syracuse by Rodgers & Hart (THEATER), Oct., 39; “Out” at the old ballgame a review of Take Me Out by Richard Greenberg (THEATER), Nov., 44; No vital sparks a review of A Man of No Importance, Salome & Flower Drum Song (THEATER), Dec., 50; Running on empty a review of Far Away by Caryl Churchill & Our Town (THEATER), Jan., 35; Trivial selves, big issues reviews of The Mercy Seat by Neil LaBute, Medea, Hank Williams: Lost Highway by Randal Myler and Mark Harelik & Tommy Tune: White Tie And Tails (THEATER), Feb., 40; Aging youth & a meatless sandwich reviews of Kimberly Akimbo by David Lindsay-Abaire & Shanghai Moon by Charles Busch (THEATER), Mar., 39; Luck of the Irish? reviews of Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw & Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme by Frank McGuinness (THEATER), April, 48; Gurney on a gurney a review of recent work by A. R. Gurney, Jr., including O Jerusalem (THEATER), May, 39; A Rose is a rose. . . a review of Gypsy by Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim, and Arthur Laurents (THEATER), June, 38 *Stove, R. J.* The unsleeping eye a reply to Anthony Daniels (LETTER), June, 90 *Thaw, E. V.* The art of collecting, Dec., 13 *Tillinghast, Richard* Back again (POEM), Oct., 35; Concordances (POEM), Oct., 36; As long as I have these saddlebags (POEM), Oct., 37; Peter Taylor today, Mar., 26 *Watman, Max* Suffer the children reviews of Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides ; The Lovely Bones: A Novel by Alice Sebold ; Prague by Arthur Phillips ; Twelve: A Novel by Nick McDonell ; The Little Friend by Donna Tartt ; & Summerland by Michael Chabon (FICTION CHRONICLE), Nov., 65; Flamboyantly humble a review of You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers (BOOKS), Dec., 93; A safe preserve for sport reviews of The Interpreter by Suki Kim ; Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo ; The Time of Our Singing by Richard Powers ; The Commissariat of Enlightenment by Ken Kalfus ; & The Hazards of Good Breeding by Jessica Shattuck (FICTION CHRONICLE), May, 63 *Wilkin, Karen* Summer at the MET (ART), Sept., 51; Adolph Gottlieb (ART), Dec., 36; Late style Anthony Caro (ART), Jan., 40; Richness, quietness, pleasure a review of Voyage into Myth: French Paintings from Gauguin to Matisse from the Hermitage Museum (ART), Feb., 45; “Matisse Picasso” at MOMA QNS a review of “Matisse Picasso” at the Museum of Modern Art (ART), Mar., 44; “Manet/Velázquez” at the MET a review of “Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (ART), April, 53; Anywhere in between reviews of four recent exhibitions: “Thomas Nozkowski Drawings” at the New York Studio School Gallery ; “Pat Lipsky” at Elizabeth Harris Gallery and at L.I.C.K. Ltd. Fine Art ; “John Walker: Changing Light” & “Frankenthaler: New Paintings” both at Knoedler and Company (ART), June, 49 *Windschuttle, Keith* The ethnocentrism of Clifford Geertz a review of Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics by Clifford Geertz , Oct., 5; Reply to Michael F. Brown (LETTERS), Dec., 95; Rabbit-Proof Fence : “a true story”? Mar., 12; The hypocrisy of Noam Chomsky on Chomsky’s treatment of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington ,April, 4 *Wohlfeld, Valerie* Vessel (POEM), Nov., 42; Erebus (POEM), Nov., 43 *Yezzi, David* The place of poetry, April, 17

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Volume 21 September 2002 – June 2003

Volume 21
September 2002 – June 2003