The New Criterion


		Index The New Criterion Volume 4 September 1985 – June 1986 *Agee, William C.* American art between the wars (ART), June, 44; *Aitchison, James* Rewriting childhood (Poem), Oct., 49 *Allen, Dick* Cities & empires (Poem), Oct., 54; The bookshop (Poem), June, 42; Auchincloss, Louis Portrait of the artist as Strether (NOTEBOOK), June, 86; Bahlke, Conrad Reading Larkin (Letter), Apr., 86 *Bawer, Bruce* Doris Lessing: on the road to “The Good Terrorist,” Sept., 4; Hemingway’s prelude to Paris, on Along with Youth: Hemingway, the Early Years by Peter Griffin, Oct., 34; Dave Smith’s “creative writing,” Dec., 27; “My dear, dear Sister”: the life of Dorothy Wordsworth, Jan., 26; Reply to Kenneth S. Lynn (Letter), Jan., 83; The fictive music of Wallace Stevens, Feb., 26; Getting Stoned, a review of Children of Light by Robert Stone (BOOKS), Mar., 65; Dylan Thomas: the poet in his letters, Apr., 8; Pushkin by the Bay, a review of The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth (BOOKS), May, 77; True Confessions, on The Good Mother by Sue Miller & other recent American works (FICTION CHRONICLE,), June, 78; Bernstein, Charles The “language poets” (Letter), Feb., 86 *Blinken, Donald M.* Cold-war art history (Letter), Oct., 88 *Bloom, Allan* Raymond Aron: the last of the liberals, Sept., 34 *Boyers, Robert* “Atrocity & Amnesia” (Letter), May, 91; *Bradberry, James* Correction (Letter), Nov., 92 *Brandow, Michael* The legacy of Punk Rock (NOTEBOOK), Sept., 82; *Brown, Frederick* The career of Gaston Gallimard, Feb., 18; *Cantor, Norman* Reply to Robert Darnton (Letter), Dec., 85 *Case, Edward* Everything is possible to the cheerful hero (Poem), Oct., 45; *Case, Edward* 1914 (Poem), Oct., 46; A victory is won (Poem), Oct., 47; In a brand new Buick passing the reputed area of my grandfather’s grave (Poem), Oct., 48; Minor poet (Poem), Oct., 48 *Cassidy, Victor M.* Two reputations, a review of Pound/Lewis: The Letters of Ezra Pound & Wyndham Lewis edited by Timothy Materer (BOOKS), Jan., László Moholy-Nagy: adventurer in light (PHOTOGRAPHY), May, 64; *Champa, Kermit S.* Renoir in Boston, Dec., 42; *Cohn, Robert Greer* Derrida at Yale (NOTEBOOK), May, 82 *Coleman, Jacqueline* The New Theatricality, on Trisha Brown & others (DANCE), Dec., 59 *Craft, Robert* Schumann on the couch, on Schumann: Music & Madness by Peter F. Ostwald (NOTEBOOK), May, 86 *Daniel, David* The trouble with Robbins, on Jerome Robbins’s In Memory of . . . & other works (DANCE), Feb., 55 *Darnton, Robert* Lawrence Stone & Marxism (Letter), Dec., 85 *Di Piero, W. S.* Morandi of Bologna (LETTER FROM ITALY), May, 39; *Edel, Leon* Letters between two masters, on Flaubert & Turgenev: A Friendship in Letters edited by Barbara Beaumont (BOOKS), Dec., 69; *The Editors* Reply to Anthony Grafton, Sean Wilentz, Gertrude Himmelfarb & J. H. Hexter (Letter), Mar., 86; *Epstein, Daniel Mark* Thinking of Thomas Moore (Poem), Jan., 35; The barrel organ (from “Homage to Mallarmé”) (Poem), Mar., 38; Old times (from “Homage to Mallarmé”) (Poem), Mar., 40; *Falcoff, Mark* Americans in Mexico, a review of The Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes(BOOKS), Feb., 71; *Frank, Joseph* The “superfluous man,” a review of Who Is to Blame? by Alexander Herzen, translated from the Russian by Michael R. Katz (BOOKS), Sept., 66; *Freedberg, S. J.* On art history, Sept., 18; *Fromm, Gloria G.* Making up Jean Rhys, Dec., 47; *Gardner, James* No forgetting, a review of All Our Yesterdays by Natalia Ginzburg (BOOKS), Sept., 69; Spanish still-life painting of the “Golden Age,” Oct., 24; Michelangelo & the Quattrocento (ART), Nov., 67; Italo Calvino, 1923-1985, Dec., 6; Propertius, our contemporary, a review of Propertius: The Poems translated from the Latin by W.G. Shepherd (BOOKS), June, 73; *Gibson, Eric* Di Suvero & constructivism (ART), Sept., 55; Dim “Horizons” at the Guggenheim, on New Horizons in American Art (ART), Nov., 62; David Park & the figure (ART), Dec., 64; Two sculptors, on Donald Lipski & William Tucker (ART), Jan., 57; Josef Albers: in the engine room of modern art, Apr., Naum Gabo at the Guggenheim, June, 34; *Gilbert, Creighton* Bellini’s drawings, a review of Jacopo Bellini: The Louvre Album of Drawings edited by Bernhard Degenhart & Annegrit Schmitt (BOOKS), Sept., Donatello as curator’s choice, on Italian Renaissance Sculpture in the Time of Donatello at the Detroit Institute of Arts (ART), Jan., 52; From 1066 to now, a review of The Bayeaux Tapestry by David M. Wilson (BOOKS), Apr., 80; *Grafton, Anthony (& Sean Wilentz)* Marxism, Princeton & Lawrence Stone (Letter), Mar., 84 *Gress, David* Michel Foucault, Apr., 19 Hall, Donald Philip Larkin, 1922-1985, Feb., 10 *Harnack, Curtis* Night passage (Poem), Feb., 36 *Hexter, J. H.* Marxism, Princeton & Lawrence Stone (Letter), Mar, 85 Himmelfarb, Gertrude Marxism, Princeton & Lawrence Stone (Letter), Mar., 84 *Hofstadter, Dan* Paris possessed, on the photographs of Eugène Atget, Dec., 14; Hare, tortoise, umpire, on François Boucher at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, June, 15; *Iannone, Carol* Feminism & literature, a review of The New Feminist Criticism: Essays on Women, Literature & Theory edited by Elaine Showalter(BOOKS), Nov., 83; *Janis, Eugenia* Parry Degas laid bare, a review of Degas: His Life, Times & Work by Roy McMullen (BOOKS), Nov., 78 *Jordy, William H.* The return of Mies van der Rohe (ARCHITECTURE), May, 45; *Joseph, John* Reading Larkin (Letter), Apr., 86 *Justice, Donald* Piano lessons: a memoir of the Thirties (Poem), `x Mar., 41; Psalm & lament (Poem), June, 40; *Kennedy, X. J.* Terse elegy for J. V. Cunningham (Poem), Oct., 50; Twelve dead, scores homeless (Poem), Oct., 51; Larkin’s voice, Feb., 16 *Kenyon, Jane* Siesta at the Hotel Frattina (Poem), Oct., 52; Small early valentine (Poem), Apr., 42; Spring changes (Poem), Apr., 43; The clearing (Poem), Apr., 44; While we were arguing (Poem), Apr., 45; *Kimball, Roger* The war according to Sartre, a review of The War Diaries of Jean-Paul Sartre: November 1939- March 1940 (BOOKS), Sept., 73; Getting back to nature, a review of Toward a More Natural Science: Biology & Human Affairs by Leon R. Kass, M.D. (BOOKS), Oct., 81; Dartmouth’s Hood Museum (ARCHITECTURE), Nov., 45; The ambiguities of Milan Kundera, Jan., 5; The avant-garde comes to Hofstra, on the symposium Avant-Garde Art & Literature: Toward a Reappraisal of Modernism (NOTEBOOK), Feb., 78; Politics, politics, politics — the PEN Congress in New York, Mar., 8; Decline of the self, a review of Death of the Soul: From Descartes to the Computer by William Barrett (BOOKS), Apr., 77; Making a spectacle of architecture on PBS, on the television series Pride of Place, May, 25; Debating the humanities at Yale, on the symposium The Humanities & the Public Interest, June, 23; *Kramer, Hilton* The Whitney’s new Graves, on Michael Graves’s design for a new Whitney Museum, Sept., 1; The sorrows of Kurt Schwitters, Oct., 1; Introduction to “From the Journals of Thornton Wilder,”, Oct., 6; Reply to Donald M. Blinken (Letter), Oct., 88; Reply to Raymond J. Learsy (Letter), Nov., 90; At the Picasso Museum, Jan., 1; Modernism & its enemies, on Fredric Jameson, Roger Starr, Daniel Bell et al., Mar., 1; Peggy Guggenheim as history, Apr., 1; Richard Serra at MOMA, May, 1; Writing the history of the New York intellectuals, on Prodigal Sons by Alexander Bloom, June, 1; *Kramer, Mimi* And all their minds transfigured, on New York’s lack of a regular theater-going audience & other matters, (THEATER), Nov., 53; Why Edwin Drood had to die, on the musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood (THEATER), Jan., 43; Winter journey, on revivals of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest & Noël Coward’s Hay Fever (THEATER), Feb., 50; Aunt Dan & Wally, on Wallace Shawn’s Aunt Dan & Lemon (THEATER), Mar., 54; Who has seen Christina Rossetti?, on the musical Goblin Market (THEATER), June, 56; *Kuryluk, Ewa* Memory & responsibility: Claude Lanzmann’s “Shoah,” Nov., 14; Reply to Daniel Talbot (Letter), Feb., 85 *Langbaum, Robert* Seeing Lawrence whole, a review of Flame into Being: The Life & Work of D. H. Lawrence by Anthony Burgess (BOOKS), Jan., 67 *Learsy, Raymond* The new Whitney Museum (Letter), Nov., 89 *Leithauser, Brad* Two incidents on & off Guam (Poem), Sept., 42; *Lennon, Peter* Reading Larkin (Letter), Apr., 86 *Lipman, Samuel* What the Cliburn contest thinks of pianists (MUSIC), Sept., 48; When the critic criticized, on The Music Monster by Charles Reid, a biography of James William Davison of the London Times (MUSIC), Oct., 64; Remembering “Parsifal,” Nov., 21; Eastward the course of (Western) music, on the NHK Orchestra of Japan in New York (MUSIC), Dec., Casanova at the City Opera, on Dominick Argento’s Casanova (MUSIC), Jan., 39; Reply to Konrad Wolff & Andrew Raeburn (Letter), Jan. 1986, 87; But if the artist fail?, on the failure of musical talent, Feb., 1; A great Spanish pianist, on Ricardo Viñes (MUSIC), Mar., 61; The LaSalle Quartet & Pierre Boulez (MUSIC), Apr., 50; Reply to William E. Lowry (Letter), Apr., 85; Art & patronage today, May, 6 Lowry, William E. The musician as writer (Letter), Apr., 85 *Lynn, Kenneth S.* Early Hemingway (Letter), Jan., 82 Mariani, Paul Ars poetica (Poem), May, 37 Mellow, James R. Hopper’s scene, a review of Hopper’s Places by Gail Levin (BOOKS), Feb., 69; *Morris, Herbert* Ultimate poem (Poem), Dec., 51; William James in Brazil (Poem), Feb., 37 A profound simplicity: the poetry of Andrew Young, Oct., 41; *Myers, John Bernard* Peggy Guggenheim (Letter), June, 88 *Nims, John Frederick* In Venice, the light airs (Poem), Apr., 49 *Norris, Leslie* Christmas in Utah (Poem), Feb., 35; *Pack, Robert* Neanderthal poem ah number one (Poem), Apr., 46 *Paul, David* The world of Pope, a review of Alexander Pope: A Life by Maynard Mack (BOOKS), May, 70; *Perl, Jed* Figures in three dimensions, on the sculpture of Timothy Woodman & Barbara Goodstein (ART), Sept., 60; The Twilight Zone, on Representation Abroad at the Hirshhorn (ART), Oct., 55; Academic Surrealism, on L’Amour fou: Photography & Surrealism at the Corcoran Gallery (PHOTOGRAPHY), Nov., 38; Geometry lessons, on Contrasts of Form: Geometric Abstract Art 1910-1980 at MOMA, Dec., 34; Starring Cindy Sherman: notes on the new art world, Jan., 14; Houses, fields, gardens, hills, on Catherine Murphy, Joan Snyder, Jennifer Bartlett & Esti Dunow (ART), Feb., 43; Hayter’s line & Golub’s message (ART), Mar., 45; Winter notebook, a gallery round-up (ART), Apr., 57; Storytellers, on Eric Fischl & Gabriel Laderman (ART), May, 57; Putting the Sixties to bed, on Definitive Statements, an exhibition of American art 1964-1966 at Brown University, June, 9; Versions of pastoral, on John Heliker, Richard Tobias, Anthony Caro & others (ART), June, 48 *Petersen, Donald* The eye egg (Poem), Nov., 31; Smiling for Foggerson (Poem), Nov., 32; That door (Poem), Nov., 34; Solitary woman (Poem), Nov., 35; This not that (Poem), Nov., 36 *Pryce-Jones, David* Novels with politics, a review of Atrocity & Amnesia: The Political Novel since 1945 by Robert Boyers (BOOKS), Feb. 1986, 74; Reply to Robert Boyers (Letter), May, 92; *Putnam, Thomas* Leonard Bernstein (Letter), Sept., *Raeburn, Andrew* The Cliburn contest (Letter), Jan., 85 *Resnikova, Eva* Tchaikovsky’s ballets, a review of Tchaikovsky’s Ballets by Roland John Wiley (BOOKS), Jan., 61; *Richman, Robert* Chilling observations, a review of The Lamplit Answer by Gjertrud Schnackenberg (BOOKS), Oct., 78; Lyric to narrative, a review of Dangerous Play: Poems 1974-1984 by Andrew Motion (BOOKS), Jan., 76; “Trying to preserve something,” a tribute to Philip Larkin, Feb., 13; Reply to Conrad Bahlke, John Joseph & Peter Lennon (Letter), Apr., 88; *Rifkind, Donna* Access to the past, a review of Gentlemen in England by A. N. Wilson (BOOKS), Mar., 79; *Rudikoff, Sonya* “A singular institution,” a review of Enlarging the Change by Robert Fitzgerald (BOOKS), Mar., 72 *Saisselin, R. G.* The new art history (Letter), Sept., 85 *Schwartz, Sanford* The Saatchi Collection, or, a generation comes into focus, Mar., 22 *Schwartz, Stephen* Escapees in paradise: literary life in San Francisco, Dec., 1; Reply to Charles Bernstein (Letter), Feb., 87; *Shapiro, Alan* Familiar story (Poem), Oct., 53 *Shaw, Peter* Marxism & criticism, a review of The Function of Criticism: From “The Spectator” to Post-Structuralism by Terry Eagleton (BOOKS), Dec., 81 *Simpson, Louis* Sea of grass (Poem), May, 35; *Spires, Elizabeth* February origami (Poem), Jan., 38; *Talbot, Daniel* Lanzmann’s “Shoah” (Letter), Feb., 85 *Tuttleton, James W.* What is “humanism”?, a review of Irving Babbitt: An Intellectual Study by Thomas R. Nevin (BOOKS), Nov., 75; René Wellek: the theorist as historian, a review of A History of Modern Criticism, Vol. 5 & Vol. 6 (BOOKS), Feb., 64; The consolations of Emerson, a review of The American Newness by Irving Howe (BOOKS), Apr., *Wellek, René* Hofmannsthal’s world, a review of Hugo von Hofmannsthal & His Time by Hermann Broch (BOOKS), Dec., 75; Lukács before Marx, a review of The Young Lukács by Lee Congdon & Georg Lukács & His Generation 1900-1918 by Mary Gluck (BOOKS), June 1986, 69; *Wilder, Thornton* From the journals of Thornton Wilder selected & edited by Donald Gallup, with an introduction by Hilton Kramer, Oct., 6 *Wilentz, Sean & Anthony Grafton* Marxism, Princeton & Lawrence Stone (Letter), Mar., 84 *Wolff, Konrad* The Cliburn contest (Letter), Jan., 84 *Young, Vernon* A vanishing metaphor, a review of On the Shores of the Mediterranean by Eric Newby (BOOKS), Oct., 73; Chaplin disinterred, a review of Chaplin: His Life & Art by David Robinson (BOOKS), June, 62

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Volume 4 September 1985 – June 1986