The New Criterion

Index

Volume 5 September 1986 – June 1987

Alterman, Barry
Mark Morris Superstar (Letter), Apr., 82

Arrowsmith, William
Translating Montale (Letter), June, 86

Atlas, James
Poetry as disease & therapy, a review of The Middle Generation by Bruce Bawer (BOOKS), Oct., 80;
“The Common Pursuit” in New York, on the play by Simon Gray (What’s wrong with the British? Part I), Feb., 14;
Warming up for poetry, a review of Collected Prose by Robert Lowell (BOOKS), June, 72;

Auchincloss, Louis
Courtship in Congreve (NOTEBOOK), Oct., 83;

Barr, Magaret Scolari
The Cone sisters (Letter), Feb., 88;

Bawer, Bruce
Salinger’s arrested development, Sept., 34;
A critic’s obligations, a review of Obbligati: Essays in Criticism by Anthony Hecht (BOOKS), Oct., 75;
All in the family, on The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt, The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich & other recent American fiction (FICTION CHRONICLE), Nov., 67;
“The Story of English” on PBS, Dec., 1;
The audacity of Emily Dickinson, Jan., 7;
Martin Amis on America (What’s wrong with the British? Part II), Feb., 20;
What is “modern” poetry?, on A History of Modern Poetry by David Perkins, Mar., 28;
John Fowles & his big ideas, Apr., 21;
Glenway Wescott, 1901-1987, May 36;
Tinsel talk, a review of Film Flam by Larry McMurtry(BOOKS), June, 77;

Bayles, Martha
A “guide” to popular culture?, on Todd Gitlin’s Watching Television & other works (TELEVISION), June, 46;

Bercovitch, Sacvan
Rewriting American literary history (Letter), Mar., 81

Bergman, David
Daughters denying the dreams of their father (Poem), Nov., 47;

Brandow, Michael
Kitchen video culture, on the Kitchen, the avant-garde art center in SoHo (NOTEBOOK), Feb., 77;

Breton, Marcela
Vladimir Nabokov (Letter), May, 86;

Cassidy, Victor M.
Night comes to the Field Museum, on the lighting design of Chicago’s museum of natural history (NOTEBOOK), Mar., 77;

Champa, Kermit S.
What happened to British art?, on British Art in the 20th Century: The Modern Movement at London’s Royal Academy of Art, Apr., 16;

Clark, Patricia
Composition in neutral tones (Poem), Nov., 46;
The marriage (Poem), Apr., 40;
Estrangement (Poem), Apr., 41;

Croce, Arlene
Mark Morris Superstar (Letter), Apr., 83

Davis, William
Virgil Landscape (Poem), Mar., 37;

Davison, Peter
Concentration (Poem), May, 52;

Di Piero, W. S.
Killing moonlight: the Futurists in Venice, on Futurismo & Futurismi at the Palazzo Grassi, Sept., 8;
The two old ladies of September (Poem), Mar., 41;
Out of Eden: on Alberto Giacometti, May, 15;

Eaton, Charles
Edward The lynx (Poem), Jan., 45;

Eberstadt, Fernanda
The obsessions of Marguerite Duras, a review of The Malady of Death, The Lover & The War by Marguerite Duras (BOOKS), Sept., 79
Vladimir Nabokov: ardor & art, Mar., 4;
“Crime & Punishment” in Washington (THEATER), Apr., 51;
Reply to Stephen Miller & Marcela Breton (Letter), May, 88;
Danger & misery on Broadway, on Dangerous Liaisons & Les Misérables (THEATER), June, 59

Edel, Leon
Literary landscape, a review of The Sixth Continent: A Literary History of Romney Marsh by Iain Finlayson (BOOKS), May, 79

Epstein, Daniel Mark
The case of Harry Houdini, Oct., 25;
The carpenter (Poem), Nov., 44;
Reply to Cushing Strout (Letter), Dec., 90;
The new music (Poem), Apr., 37
The mystery of Theodore Dreiser, Nov., 33;

Epstein, Joseph
George Santayana & the consolations of philosophy, June, 15;

Ferber, Herbert
Richard Serra (Letter), Sept., 91

Filkins, Peter
An old New England graveyard (Poem), Mar., 43

Flacke, Christopher
Isozaki’s MOCA (ARCHITECTURE), Apr., 46

France, Charles
Mark Morris Superstar (Letter), Apr., 83

Frank, Elizabeth
Esteban Vicente at eighty-four (ART) June, 51;

Friedensohn, Elias
The weather on Patmos is just fine, reflections on a journey to Belgium & Holland, Jan., 33

Fromm, Gloria G.
The worldly & unworldly fortunes of Rose Macaulay, Oct., 38;
New tales for old wives, on recent biographies of writers’ wives, Apr., 6;

Gardner, James

The mystery of genius, a review of A Ringing Glass: The Life of Rainer Maria Rilke by Donald Prater (BOOKS), Jan., 70;
Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986, Oct., 16;

Gibson, Eric

The Cones of Baltimore, on the biography Dr. Claribel & Miss Etta by Brenda Richardson (ART), Oct., 59;
Homer & Sargent: Yankee honesty vs. cosmopolitan flair (ART), Feb., 58;
Was Minimalist art a political movement?, on The Crux of Minimalism, a symposium at the School of Visual Arts (ART), May, 59;

Gilbert, Creighton

Frits Lugt: a life in looking, Sept., 29;
Little bronzes from Vienna, on Renaissance Master Bronzes from the Collection of the Kunst-historisches Museum in Washington, D.C. (ART), Nov., 62;
High art from the desert, on Treasures of the Holy Land: Ancient Art from the Israel Museum at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (ART), Jan., 54;
In Correggio country, on The Age of Correggio & the Carracci in Washington, D.C. (ART), May, 53;

Gress, David

The fall of the idols, on the cultural life of postwar France, Dec., 10;
Diagnosis of a “Kulturkampf,” on The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom, May, 24;

Grossman, Florence

Wildflowers (Poem), Nov., 50;

Griffin, Walter

Windfalls (Poem), Nov., 51;
Planting bulbs in September (Poem), June, 39;

Hall, Donald

The hardened reviewer, a review of The Complete Prose of Marianne Moore edited by Patricia Willis (BOOKS), Apr., 63;
Words over Amos (Poem), June, 32;
Waking the next morning (Poem), June, 33;

Hilton, Tim

Frank Stella’s crisis, a review of Working Space by Frank Stella (BOOKS), Feb., 69

Hofstadter, Dan

Sacred monster, on Ingres, Jan., 17;
Van Gogh in Saint-Rémy & Auvers (ART), Mar., 53;

Holt, James C.

Platonic relationships, a review of Acastos: Two Platonic Dialogues by Iris Murdoch (BOOKS), May, 81

Hooker, Gertrude S.

Translating Montale (Letter), Feb., 83

Hudgins, Andrew

Almost in love (Poem), Apr., 38;

Jordy, William H.

The Machine Age revisited, on The Machine Age in America, 1918-1941 at the Brooklyn Museum (DESIGN) Feb., 44;
Henry-Russell Hitchcock, 1903-1987 (NOTEBOOK), Apr., 79

Justice, Donald

After school practice: a short story (Poem), Oct., 50;

Kendall, Elizabeth

Mark Morris Superstar (Letter), Apr., 82

Kenyon, Jane

September garden party (Poem), May, 46;
After the dinner party (Poem), May, 47;
Summer in the suburbs: 6:00 A.M. (Poem), May, 48;
Letter to Alice (Poem), May, 50;

Ketcham, Diana

“I am a whore”: Philip Johnson at eighty (ARCHITECTURE), Dec., 57;

Kimball, Roger

Becoming Elias Canetti, Sept., 17;
Art & architecture at the Equitable Center, Nov., 24;
Academic selves, a review of Reconstructing Individualism edited by Thomas C. Heller, Morton Sosna, David E. Wellbery, et al. (BOOKS), Dec., 83;
Sundays in the dark with the Whitney, on the lecture series Sundays at Six: Issues in Contemporary Art (NOTEBOOK), Jan., 83;
Architecture redux, a review of Architecture, Anyone? by Ada Louise Huxtable (BOOKS), Mar., 70;
Mountain mystifications, a review of The Spell by Hermann Broch (BOOKS), Apr., 73;
Sartre resartus, a review of Sartre: A Life by Annie Cohen-Solal (BOOKS), May, 72;

Kramer, Hilton

The two Henry Moores, Oct., 1;
Clement Greenberg in the Forties, Jan., 1;
The lowdown on Richard Gilman, Feb., 1;
The Met’s 20th-century folly, on the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mar., 1;
On the “Spiritual in Art” in Los Angeles, on The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985, Apr., 1;
Reply to Helene MacLean (Letter), Apr., 88;
The death of Andy Warhol, May, 1;
The new Women’s museum in Washington, June, 1;

Kramer, Mimi

Beyond method acting, on the Jonathan Miller Long Day’s Journey into Night & other matters (THEATER), Sept., 67

Laing, Alastair

The Boucher exhibition (Letter), Sept., 92

Leithauser, Brad

A peculiarly dark utopian: H. G. Wells, Nov., 13;

Leithauser, Brad

The confinement of free verse, May, 4;

Levin, Phillis

Rilke’s Nightfall (Poem), Oct., 51

Lipman, Samuel

The pupils of Clara Schumann & the uses of tradition (MUSIC), Sept., 60;
Zeroing in on Karajan (MUSIC), Oct., 52;
The Met’s failed “Walküre” (MUSIC), Nov., 52;
The Berlin Philharmonic without Karajan (MUSIC), Dec., 52;
Reply to Jerrold Northrop Moore (Letter), Dec., 92;
A dissent on Menotti (MUSIC), Jan., 49;
Schnabel “redivivus,” on CD reissues of early Artur Schnabel recordings (MUSIC), Mar., 49;
Sad thoughts on Walter Busterkeys, a.k.a. Liberace (MUSIC), Apr., 43;
James Huneker & America’s musical coming-of-age, June, 4

Lord, James

The Orsay experience, on the new Musée d’Orsay in Paris, Mar., 19

Mack, Dana

Remembering Mischa Elman, Dec., 24;
Thomas Bernhard (Letter), Apr., 88;

MacLean, Helene

Religion & the intellectuals (Letter), Apr., 87

Martin, Charles

On yielding to whim (Poem), Mar., 44

Millard, Charles W.

Vulgarity, novelty & politics in contemporary art, Oct., 34

Miller, Stephen

Vladimir Nabokov (Letter), May, 86

Moore, Jerrold Northrop

Clara Schumann’s pupils (Letter), Dec., 91

Morris, Herbert

Opera (Poem), Feb., 37;

Nims, John Frederick

Water music (Poem),Sept., 48

Paul, David

Doomed poet, a review of The Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire (BOOKS), Nov., 78;
A voice outside (Poem), June, 40;
Montana cat (Poem), June, 41;
What have you done with your life? (Poem), June, 42

Perl, Jed

The School of Paris revisited (ART), Sept., 52;
Retro madness, on Carroll Dunham (ART), Oct., 67;
The sketchbooks of Picasso (ART), Nov., 58;
At the beginning of the season, on Rainer Fetting & others (ART), Dec., 65;
Matisse: into the Twenties, on Henri Matisse: The Early Years in Nice, 1916-1930 in Washington, DC, Feb., 6;
Jottings along the way, on Anne Truitt, Jonathan Silver & others (ART), Mar., 57;
The pictures & passions of Leland Bell (ART), Apr., 57;
Paul Klee now, June, 28;
Jasper’s seasons, on Jasper Johns’s The Seasons (ART), June, 56;

Prescott, Theodore

Professor Kuspit comes to rural Pennsylvania, on Donald Kuspit’s Weiner Lecture at Dickinson College (NOTEBOOK), June, 83;

Radosh, Ronald

“But today the struggle”: Spain & the intellectuals, on anthologies of writing on the Spanish Civil War, Oct., 5;

Resnikova, Eva

Naughty but nice, on Michael Clark & Company (DANCE), Dec., 71;
Mark Morris Superstar (DANCE), Jan., 59;
Grow old along with me!, on David Gordon & the Pick Up Company (DANCE), Feb., 53;
Love American-style, on two new works by Peter Martins for the New York City Ballet (DANCE), Mar., 45;
Innocents from abroad, on Maguy Marin’s Cinderella (DANCE), Apr., 55;
Reply to Elizabeth Kendall, Barry Alterman, Charles France & Arlene Croce (Letter), Apr., 84;
Rebel without a cause, on Eliot Feld & the Feld Ballet (DANCE), May, 65;
Ground control, on the Laura Dean Dance Company (DANCE), June, 43;

Richman, Robert

Unlike everyone else, a review of Less Than One by Joseph Brodsky (BOOKS), Sept., 84;
The “monster” myth, a review of Robert Frost Himself by Stanley Burnshaw (BOOKS), Nov., 85;
The poetry of Robert Bly, Dec., 37;
Impatient faith, a review of Daily Horoscope by Dana Gioia (BOOKS), Feb., 71;

Rifkind, Donna

Searching for Dorothy Parker, a review of The Late Mrs. Dorothy Parker by Leslie Frewin (BOOKS), Sept., 87;
The other brothers, a review of Biography of Broken Fortunes: Wilkie & Bob, Brothers of William, Henry & Alice James by Jane Maher (BOOKS), Dec., 78;
Worlds apart, on The Afternoon Sun by David Pryce-Jones & A Misalliance by Anita Brookner (FICTION CHRONICLE), Jan., 78;
Keeping the Sabbath, a review of My Mother’s Sabbath Days by Chaim Grade (BOOKS), Feb., 74;
Rothward bound, a review of The Counterlife by Philip Roth (BOOKS), Mar., 63;
Casting away, a review of Foe by J. M. Coetzee (BOOKS), Apr., 66;
Isn’t it romantic?, a review of Mary Shelley by Muriel Spark (BOOKS), June, 68;

Rosenstock, Laura

Richard Serra (Letter), Sept., 91

Ruark, Gibbons

Larkin (Poem), Jan., 47;
At the graves in memory (Poem), June, 37;
Wayside flowers on the Hazel Brae (Poem), June, 38

Schwartz, Stephen

Tales from the other side, a review of The Opposing Shore by Julien Gracq (BOOKS), Mar., 73

Shapiro, Harvey

Last things (Poem), Apr., 42;
Curtains (Poem), Apr., 42;

Shlaes, Amity

Thomas Bernhard & the German literary scene, Jan., 26

Simpson, Louis

Another boring story (Poem), Dec., 50;
Trouble (Poem), June, 34;

Slavitt, David R.

An explanation of the dolby system (Poem), May, 51

Smith, William Jay

The storm & all: a new look at Montale, a review of The Storm & Other Things by Eugenio Montale, translated from the Italian by William Arrowsmith (BOOKS), Oct., 71;

Smith, William Jay

Reply to Gertrude S. Hooker (Letter), Feb., 86;
Reply to William Arrowsmith (Letter), June, 88;
A face (Poem), Dec., 49;
Eastern Neck Island (Poem), Mar., 38;
The celestial (Poem), Mar., 39;

Strout, Cushing

Harry Houdini (Letter), Dec., 90

Teachout, Terry

Wishing for a Wellsian world, a review of H. G. Wells: Deperately Mortal by David C. Smith (BOOKS), Dec., 73;

Thomas, Michael M.

Indi(c)ting Bernard Berenson, a review of Artful Partners—Bernard Berenson & Joseph Duveen by Colin Simpson (BOOKS), Mar., 66

Tuttleton, James W.

Rewriting the history of American literature, on the work of Lawrence Buell & Sacvan Bercovitch, Nov., 1;
Edmund Wilson: the author at sixty, a review of The Fifties by Edmund Wilson (BOOKS), Jan., 63;
Reply to Sacvan Bercovitch (Letter), Mar., 83;
American writers & the British muse, a review of Atlantic Double-Cross by Robert Weisbuch (BOOKS), Apr., 69;
Literary free play at Rutgers, a review of The Renewal of Literature by Richard Poirier (BOOKS), June, 63;

Ulmer, James

For my grandfather (Poem), Oct., 49;

Wade, Sidney

Gas (Poem), Dec., 47;

Weiss, Theodore

A Parisian air (Poem), Oct., 45;
Widow-watching (Poem), Oct., 47;

Wellek, René

Benjamin’s Moscow, a review of Moscow Diary by Walter Benjamin (BOOKS), Nov., 83

Winegarten, Renee

The golden boy of Surrealism, a review of Difficult Death by René Crevel (BOOKS), Feb., 66

Woldenberg, Susan

The future of Times Square: the Portman portent, Feb., 27

Wolf, Matt

The profits of subsidy, on Peter Hall & Trevor Nunn (LETTER FROM LONDON), May, 67

Zilles, Luke

Work (Poem), Nov., 49;