Index

The New Criterion

Volume 22

September 2003 – June 2004

Aitchison, James

Allen, Brooke

  • A return to BEA a review of Elspeth Huxley: A Biography by C. S. Nicholls (BOOKS), Oct., 67
  • The novels of Alan Furst, Mar.,19

Anderson, Digby

  • No laughing matter a review of The Morality of Laughter by F. H. Buckley (BOOKS), Sept., 70

Arkin, Marc

  • Leap of faith a review of A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic by John E. Ferling (BOOKS), Dec., 101
  • Why we won a review of Washington’s Crossing by David Hackett Fischer(BOOKS), May, 66

Bailey, William

Bauerlein, Mark

  • Spreading the big lie a review of The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Children Learn by Diane Ravitch(BOOKS), Sept., 72
  • As seen on TV a review of The Flickering Mind: The False Promise of Technology in the Classroom and How Learning Can Be Saved by Todd Oppenheimer (BOOKS), April, 84

Bork, Robert H.

  • Olympians on the march: the courts & the culture wars, ninth in the series “Lengthened shadows”, May, 5

Bowman, James

  • The Bush junta on the Democratic party’s hatred of Bush (THE MEDIA), Summer web special
  • Scandalous scandal-cultureon scandal mongering in the media (THE MEDIA), Sept., 53; The wages of spinon the dishonesty of politicians (THE MEDIA), Oct., 56;
  • The culture of mistrust on “Gotcha” journalism (THE MEDIA), Nov., 54
  • The story the media missedon the media’s reflexive comparison of the Iraq and Vietnam wars (THE MEDIA), Dec., 80
  • The mountains of insteadon Bush’s critics and the clarity of hindsight (THE MEDIA), Jan., 54
  • Beast-man politics on the absence of content in political discourse (THE MEDIA), Feb., 61
  • Bad faith, common currency on the media’s antagonism toward the government (THE MEDIA), Mar., 63
  • Root-causeism & electabilityon the Democrats’ meta-primary (THE MEDIA), April, 76
  • Obligations to “spin”on Richard Clarke’s changing story (THE MEDIA), May, 53

Buckley, F. H.

  • His secret life a review of The Thurber Letters: The Wit, Wisdom, and Surprising Life of James Thurber edited by Harrison Kinney, & Thurber Country: A Collection of Pieces About Males and Females, Mainly of Our Own Species by James Thurber(BOOKS), Oct., 61
  • Are emotions moral? on the necessity of emotions to criminal justice, Jan., 28

Carlin, Michael

Dalrymple, Theodore

Daniels, Anthony

  • His father’s son a review of In Praise of Nepotism: A Natural History by Adam Bellow(BOOKS), Sept., 65
  • History by other means on Cambodia after the Khmer Rouge, (LETTER FROM CAMBODIA), Oct., 39
  • Carl Jung: The Madame Blavatsky of psychotherapy on Jung: A Biography by Dierdre Bair,Nov., 23
  • Booker vs. Goncourt; or, when silence is a duty on the recipients of the Booker and Goncourt prizes, Jan., 24
  • How good was Maugham? on Somerset Maugham by Jeffrey Meyers, Feb., 19
  • Reflections on the black cap on Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer’s Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty, by Scott Turow,Mar., 27

Davenport, Guy

Dean, Paul

  • The best good book a review of God’s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible by Adam Nicolson(BOOKS), Oct., 65
  • The ironies of D. J. Enright on the author’s life and work,Nov., 30
  • John Clare: freedom & enclosure reviews of “I am”: The Selected Poetry of John Clare by John Clare, edited by Jonathan Bate, & John Clare: A Biography by Jonathan Bate(BOOKS),Dec., 93
  • The Steiner school a review of Lessons of the Masters by George Steiner(BOOKS),Jan., 73

Derbyshire, John

Di Piero, W. S.

Downing, Ben

Dutton, Denis

  • Of human accomplishment on Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences 800 BC to 1950, by Charles Murray, Feb., 33

Eaton, Charles Edward

Epstein, Daniel Mark

  • The Comédie-Française, Gaugin & Botticelli(LETTER FROM PARIS), Dec., 57

Franklin, James

  • Too many universes a review of Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries? by Martin Gardner(BOOKS), Sept. 68
  • Reasonable science a review of Defending Science– Within Reason: Between Scientism and Cynicism by Susan Haack(BOOKS), Nov., 70

Gardner, James

  • The victory of Posidippus on the poetry of Posidippus of Pella(NOTEBOOK), Oct. 78

Garner, Richard

  • Messages from the gods a review of Greek Gods, Human Lives: What We Can Learn From Myths by Mary Lefkowitz(BOOKS), Jan., 66

Gibson, Eric

  • Exhibition note on Jean-Antoine Houdon: Sculptor of the Enlightenment at the J. Paul Getty Museum(ART), Dec., 70

Gioia, Dana

Grassi, Marco

Greenberg, Martin

  • Giovanni Verga’s verismo on the fiction of Giovanni Verga, May, 18

Greger, Debora

Gross, John

Gross, Paul R.

  • Darwinizing politics a review of Darwinian Politics: The Evolutionary Origin of Freedom by Paul H. Rubin(BOOKS), Mar., 74;
  • Race: no such thing a review of Race: The Reality of Human Difference, by Vincent Sarich & Frank Miele(BOOKS), April, 86

Hanson, Victor Davis

Hart, David B.

  • Religion in America: ancient & modern, seventh in the series “Lengthened shadows”, Mar., 5

Hollander, Paul

  • The political person a review of Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left, by Susan Braudy(BOOKS), April, 89

Inez, Colette

  • Forest Sculpture(POEM), Nov., 37

Jacobs, Laura

  • Stromanizing, on the choreography of Susan Stroman(DANCE), Mar., 47

Justice, Donald

Kagan, Frederick W.

  • The art of war, third in the series “Lengthened shadows”, Nov., 4

Kimball, Roger

Kolakowski, Leszek

  • Leibniz & Job: The metaphysics of evil & the experience of evil, Jan., 18

Kramer, Hilton

  • The life of a critic(AUDIO SPECIAL), Summer web special;
  • Modernism & its institutions, second in the series “Lengthened shadows”, Oct., 4;
  • The “Blue Rider” imbroglioa review of Schoenberg, Kandinsky, and the Blue Rider at The Jewish Museum(ART), Dec., 68;
  • America–c’est moi! Alred Kazin on American literature a review of Alfred Kazin’s America: Critical and Personal Writings, by Alfred Kazin, edited by Ted Solotaroff(BOOKS), April, 81

Lal, Deepak

  • The great imperialist a review of Curzon: Imperial Statesman, by David Gilmour(BOOKS), Feb., 75

Lewis, Michael J.

  • The art of art history a review of Art: A New History by Paul Johnson(BOOKS), Nov., 67;
  • “All sail, no anchor”: architecture after modernism, fourth in the series “Lengthened shadows”, Dec., 4

Lewis, Tess

  • Hope without feathers a review of The Noonday Cemetary and Other Stories by Gustaw Herling(BOOKS), Nov., 73;
  • The quiet German?a review of A Sad Affair by Wolfgang Koeppen(BOOKS), Mar., 77

Logan, William

  • Out on the lawn reviews of Nine Horses by Billy Collins, Departure by Rosanna Warren, The Selected Poems of Howard Nemerov by Howard Nemerov, edited by Daniel Anderson, The Perishing by Sherod Santos, Blue Hour by Carolyn Forché, & The Love Bomb, and Other Musical Pieces by James Fenton(VERSE CHRONICLE), Dec., 85;
  • The ghost (POEM), Jan., 33;
  • The death of Ovid (POEM), Jan., 35;
  • Zero hour (POEM), Jan., 35 Three phases of culture (POEM), Jan., 36;
  • The mystery of Marianne Moore reviews of The Poems of Marianne Moore, by Marianne Moore, edited by Grace Schulman, & Becoming Marianne Moore, by Marianne Moore, edited by Robin G. Schulze(BOOKS), Feb., 66;
  • The tide pool(POEM), May, 33;
  • Southearted men reviews of Selected Poems, by Goerge Oppen, edited by Robert Creeley, Walking to Martha's Vineyard, by Franz Wright, What Narcissism Means to Me by Tony Hoagland, The Clerk's Tale by Spencer Reece, Buffalo Yoga by Charles Wright & Collected Poems by Philip Larkin, edited by Anthony Thwaite(VERSE CHRONICLE)
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London, Herbert I.

  • Evocations a review of Tributes: Personal Reflections on a Century of Social Research by Irving Louis Horowitz(BOOKS), Jan., 75

Louis-Dreyfus, William

Martin, Charles

  • The three voices of contemporary poetry on private, prophetic, and reciprocal voices in contemporary poetry, April, 35

McGurn, William

  • Norman Podhoretz & the nature of things a review of The Norman Podhoretz Reader: A Selection of His Writings from the 1950s Through the 1990s by Norman Podhoretz, edited by Thomas L. Jeffers(BOOKS), Mar., 68

Mermelstein, David

  • Start the revolution without them on Nicholas and Alexandra at the Los Angeles Opera(MUSIC), Dec., 77

Messenger, Robert

  • Guilty as charged a review of Europe’s Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?, by David Fromkin (BOOKS), April, 92;
  • Making the grandest tour on the Tour de France, (NOTEBOOK), June, 86

Meyers, Jeffrey

Minogue, Kenneth

  • Fundamentalism isn't the problem
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Morrone, Francis

  • More than natural grace a review of Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England, by Frederick Law Olmsted(BOOKS), Feb., 72

Mullen, Alexandra

  • Nothing shabby a review of The Afterlife: Essays & Criticism by Penelope Fitzgerald(BOOKS), Feb., 79

Naves, Mario

Nelson, Christopher B.

Nordlinger, Jay

  • Great conductors (cont.) on recordings of Albert Coates, Paul Kletzki, Igor Markevitch, & Vaclac Talich(MUSIC), Sept. 48;
  • Salzburg chronicle on the Summer Festival in Salzburg (MUSIC), Oct. 51;
  • New York chronicle reviews of the start of the season for The New York Philharmonic, The Metropolitan Opera, & Carnegie Hall (MUSIC), Nov., 49;
  • Who cares what critics say? adapted from a talk delivered on November 6, 2003 at Steinway Hall, Web special;
  • New York chronicle reviews of Zoltán Kocsis with the New York Philharmonic, András Schiff at Carnegie Hall, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Jean-Yves Thibaudet at Avery Fisher Hall, Leif Ove Andsnes at Avery Fisher Hall, Leon Fleisher at Carnegie Hall, Lang Lang at Carnegie Hall, & Alicia de Larrocha with the New York Philharmonic (MUSIC), Dec., 73;
  • New York chronicle reviews of the annual Richard Tucker Music Foundation concert, David Robertson and Pierre-Laurent Aimard at the New York Philharmonic, Marcello Viotti & Stephen Hough at the New York Philharmonic, & Deborah Voigt at the New York Philharmonic (MUSIC), Jan., 47;
  • Tending the gardens of music, sixth in the series “Lengthened shadows”, Feb., 5;
  • New York chroniclereviews of Werther at the Met, The Barber of Seville at the Met, Peter Grimes by the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus at Avery Fisher Hall, Boris Godunov at the Met, & Thomas Hampson’s master class at Carnegie Hall (MUSIC), Mar., 58;
  • New York chroniclereviews of the Cleveland Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, the Vienna Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall, the Royal Concertgebouw at Carnegie Hall, & Ivan Moravec at Carnegie Hall (MUSIC), April, 70;
  • New York chroniclereviews of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, the San Francisco Symphony at Carnegie Hall, Maxim Vengerov & Fazil Say at Carnegie Hall, & Salome by Karita Mattila at the Met (MUSIC), May, 46

Norris, Leslie

Notes & Comments

Ormsby, Eric

  • The “born Schulmeister,” on the life of the scholar Shlomo Dov Goitein,Sept., 30;
  • White phalaenopsis(POEM), Dec., 51;
  • Daybreak at the straits(POEM), Dec. 52;
  • The disaster paradea review of A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates by Blake Bailey(BOOKS), Jan., 69;
  • Waiting for the golden pig(LETTER FROM PRAGUE), Feb., 43;
  • Reading Ezra Pound, on Poems and Translations by Ezra Pound, edited by Richard Sieburth,Mar., 34;
  • Of lapdogs & loners: American poetry today, eighth in the series “Lengthened shadows”, April, 5;
  • Traveler(POEM), May, 30;
  • My grandfather’s pocket watch(POEM), May, 31
  • Blowin' in the wind a review of Dylan's Visions of Sin by Christopher Ricks

Panero, James

  • Reading Africa in Waugh what Evelyn Waugh can tell us about contemporary Africa, Summer web special;
  • That is to say: nowhere a review of The American Effect: Global Perspectives on the United States, 1900–2003 at the Whitney Museum of American Art(ART), Sept., 45;
  • Whither the psychodramas? on Miracle in the Scrap Heap: The Sculpture of Richard Stankiewicz at AXA Gallery, & Ellsworth Kelly: Red Green Blue—Paintings and Studies 1958–1965 at the Whitney Museum of American Art(ART), Oct., 47;
  • What is strange about the Dahesh Museum? on the hazy history of the Dahesh Museum, Dec., 33;
  • Strange fruit, on John Currin at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and Kiki Smith: Prints, Books, and Things at the Museum of Modern Art, Queens(ART), Jan. 44;
  • Armchair adventures, on Joe Zucker: Unhinged at Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, Joe Zucker: Drawings 1977–2003 at Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York, Phillip Pearlstein at Robert Miller Gallery, New York, & Antoine-Louis Barye and the American Collector at James Graham & Sons, New York(ART), Feb., 56;
  • Exhibition note, on A Beautiful and Gracious Manner: The Art of Parmigianino at The Frick Collection, New York(ART), Mar., 57;
  • Milton Avery: then & now, May, 25
  • Gallery chronicle on Constable's Skies at Salander O'Reilly Galleries, New York, Guy Pène du Bois: Painter of Modern Life at James Graham & Sons, New York, Eduardo Paolozzi: Works on Paper and Collage at Flowers, New York & The Devonshire Inheritance: Five Centuries of Collecting at Chatsworth at the Bard Graduate Center, New York, (ART), June, 45

Penrose, James F.

Pryce-Jones, David

  • Delusion & Inhumanity a review ofApostles and Agitators: Italy’s Marxist Revolutionary Tradition by Richard Drake(BOOKS), Dec., 99

Revel, Jean-François

Rogers, Elizabeth Barlow

Rollyson, Carl

  • Farrell’s achievement a review of An Honest Writer: The Life and Times of James T. Farrell by Robert K. Landers(BOOKS), May, 68

Ryan, Kay

Sandall, Roger

Schwartz, Stephen

  • Literary leftovers a review of Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth Century Literary Left by Alan M. Wald(BOOKS), Oct., 73

Simon, John

  • Ill met at the Met a review of the Kirov Opera at the Metropolitan Opera House(MUSIC), Summer web special;
  • Stefan George: poet of the Reich on Secret Germany: Stefan George and His Circle by Robert Edward Norton, Oct., 20;
  • Beyond faeryland a review of W. B. Yeats: A Life Volume 11: The Arch-Poet 1915–1939 by R. F. Foster(BOOKS), May, 70

Slavitt, David R.

  • Settling the score a review of Do I Owe You Something? A Memoir of the Literary Life by Michael Mewshaw(BOOKS), Oct.75

Smith, Patrick J.

  • Sweeping out the cobwebs a review of A History of Russian Music: Kamarinskaya to Babi Yar by Francis Maes(BOOKS), Summer web special;
  • Concert notes on La Juive by the Vienna State Opera at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, & Pelléas et Mélisande by the Boston Symphony at Carnegie Hall, New York(MUSIC), Jan., 51;
  • Concert note on Don Giovanni at the Metropolitan Opera House(MUSIC), April, 74;
  • Concert notes on Wolfgang Sawallisch, Christoph Eschenbach & Sir Simon Rattle with the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall(MUSIC), May, 51

Snodgrass, W. D.

Stepanchev, Stephen

Steyn, Mark

  • Henry goes to Baghdad on Henry V in England & America(THEATER), Sept., 40;
  • Trumbos play the big parade a review of Trumbo(THEATER), Oct., 42;
  • Recent evasive events reviews of Omnium Gatherum and Recent Tragic Events (THEATER), Nov., 38;
  • PETA politics, Dreamworks scorea review of Wicked(THEATER), Dec., 63;
  • Expensive illiterates: victimhood & education, fifth in the series “Lengthened shadows”, Jan., 5;
  • Neil Simon: the goodbye guy a review of Rose’s Dilemma(THEATER), Feb., 49;
  • Gay old times, reviews of Valhalla, The Flu Season & The Ladies(THEATER), Mar., 42;
  • Fiddling with Fiddleron Fiddler on the Roof(THEATER), April, 58;
  • From “Embedded” to “in bed with”;reviews of Embedded & Mrs. Farnsworth(THEATER), May, 37;
  • Raisin' Cain(THEATER), June, 32

Stove, R. J.

  • Stanford education a review of Charles Villiers Stanford by Paul J. Rodmell(BOOKS), Sept., 75

Stove, Judy

    Remembering George Gissing on the novelist’s life and work, Feb., 27

Strand, Mark

Tillinghast, Richard

Warren, Deborah

Watman, Max

  • Beach-reading with Max reviews of The Coffee Trader by David Liss, Mr. Foreigner by Matthew Kneale, Spiral by Joseph Geary, & Samaritan by Richard Price(BOOKS), Summer web special;
  • Tickling your catastrophe, reviews of Yellow Dog by Martin Amis, The Furies by Fernanda Eberstadt, The Effect of Living Backwards by Heidi Julavits, The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem, & And Now You Can Go by Vendela Vida(FICTION CHRONICLE), Nov., 59;
  • Not to comment, but to illustrate, reviews ofThe Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer, The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat, Bandbox: A Novel by Thomas Mallon, Little Children by Tom Perrotta, I Dream of Microwaves by Imad Rahman, & I Sailed with Magellan by Stuart Dybeck(FICTION CHRONICLE), May 58

Wayne, Kenneth

  • New realities for the art museum on current trends in museum exhibitions, Dec., 47

Wilkin, Karen

  • Is Max Beckmann likeable? on Max Beckmann at the Museum of Modern Art, Queens,Sept., 24;
  • The modernism of El Greco, a review of El Greco at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York(ART), Nov., 43;
  • Romanticism at the Met on Crossing the Channel: British and French Painting in the Age of Romanticism at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, Dec., 37;
  • Sculpture in Dallas, on the opening of the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas (ART), Jan., 38;
  • La Belle Fernande in Washington, on Picasso: The Cubist Portraits of Fernande Olivier at the National Gallery, Washington D. C.(ART), Feb., 53;
  • Sea changes, on Manet and the Sea at the Philadelphia Museum of Art(ART), Mar., 53;
  • An island paradise in Boston, on Gauguin Tahiti at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston(ART), April, 64;

Windschuttle, Keith

  • The burdens of empire, first in the series “Lengthened shadows”, Sept., 4

Wiman, Christian

  • Free of our humbug: notes on Basil Bunting, on the poetry of Basil Bunting, April, 38

Winegarten, Renee

  • Two visions of paradise a review of El Paraiso en la otra exquina by Mario Vargas Llosa(BOOKS), Oct., 70

Wolcott, James

  • S.O.B. story a review of The Art of Burning Bridges: A Life of John O’Hara by Geoffrey Wolff(BOOKS), Sept., 58

Yezzi, David