The New Criterion


		The New Criterion Volume 6 September 1987 – June 1988 *Agee, William C.* The year of John Chamberlain (ART), Nov., 49; “Helga” & other problems, on Andrew Wyeth’s “Helga” paintings, Georgia O’Keeffe & other matters (ART), Apr., 47; Demuth at the Whitney, June, 41; *Allen, Dick* The familiar (Poem), Oct., 50; *Allen, James Sloan (& Joseph W. Polisi)* Music & the good life: an exchange (with Samuel Lipman), June, 1 *Alter, Robert* The academy vs. the canon (Letter), Jan., 80 *Atlas, James* The men of 1914, a review of Makers of the New: The Revolution in Literature, 1912-1939 by Julian Symons (BOOKS), Mar., 66 *Auchincloss, Louis* The novelist in letters, a review of The Letters of Edith Wharton edited by R. W. B. Lewis & Nancy Lewis (BOOKS), May, 68; *Baker, Brock* H. E. Bates, storyteller, a review of A Month by the Lake & Other Stories by H. E. Bates (BOOKS), Mar., 72; Empire, the novel, a review of Empire by Gore Vidal (BOOKS), Apr., 86; *Barringer, Margaret* Analemma (Poem), May, 47 *Bawer, Bruce* Talking heads: the novels of Saul Bellow, Sept., 8; Reading Denis Donoghue, Oct., 28; The passing of an elegist, a tribute to Howard Moss, 1922–1987, Nov., 35; Passage to India: the career of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Dec., 5; Wordsworth on Forty-second Street, on William Wordsworth & the Age of English Romanticism at the New York Public Library, Jan., 27; Hugh Kenner: a sinking oeuvre, a review of A Sinking Island by Hugh Kenner (BOOKS), Feb., 63; “Voices & Visions” on PBS, Mar., 11; RLS meets TLS, a review of The Lantern-Bearers & Other Essays by Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by Jeremy Treglown (BOOKS), Apr., 81; Nature boy: the novels of Peter Matthiessen, June, 32; Salinger redux, on Ian Hamilton’s attempted biography of J. D. Salinger (NOTEBOOK), June, 92; *Bayles, Martha* Booksellers at play, on the American Booksellers Association convention for 1987 (LETTER FROM WASHINGTON), Sept., 67 Special effects, special pleading, on Beloved & earlier novels by Toni Morrison, Jan., 34 *Bloch, Bradley W.* The critic as hero, a review of Criticism in Society by Imre Salusinszky (BOOKS), Mar., 69; Losing the lost generation, a review of Geniuses Together: American Writers in Paris in the 1920s by Humphrey Carpenter (BOOKS), May, 71; *Brandow, Michael* The new café society, on Nell’s & other nightspots favored by the young literati (NOTEBOOK), Mar., 75 *Cassidy, Victor M.* A Ford revival?, a review of The Ford Madox Ford Reader edited by Sondra Stang (BOOKS), Oct., 81 *Cézanne, Paul* Cézanne’s maxims translated from the French by Joel Agee, Dec., 42 *Champa, Kermit S.* Mondrian in theory & practice, Sept., 44 *Chandra, G. S.* Sharat Luchresi, not Edgar Poe (Poem), Oct., 52 *Clark, Patricia* Her red coat (Poem), June, 62 *Coulette, Henri* On a theme of X (Poem), Apr., 44; *Davenport, Guy* Ruskin according to Proust, a review of On Reading Ruskin by Marcel Proust (BOOKS), Nov., 64; *Davison, Peter* Mother Church (Poem), Dec., 50; Poetry editor (Poem), June, 63; *Di Piero, W. S.* Notes on photography, Oct., 16; Matisse’s broken circle, May, 25; The hermit thrush (Poem), June, 59; *Eaton, Charles Edward* The concert grand (Poem), Nov., 43; Belvedere (Poem), Apr., 45; *The Editors* Introduction to “Whittaker Chambers & ‘Witness’”: an exchange between Diana Trilling & Hilton Kramer, May, 1; Introduction to “Music & the good life”: an exchange between Joseph W. Polisi & James Sloan Allen and Samuel Lipman, June, 1 *Epstein, Joseph* A cottage for Mr. Naipaul, on The Enigma of Arrival & earlier works by V. S. Naipaul, Oct., 6; Tom Wolfe’s vanities, Feb., 5; What’s the usage?, on Sir Ernest Gowers’s The Complete Plain Words & other books on English usage, June, 9; *Evarts, Prescott, Jr.* House lust (Poem), Oct., 49; *Fleischmann, Ernest* “Is the symphony orchestra dead?”: an exchange (with Samuel Lipman), Dec., 38 *Foerster, Richard* Sunset sestina (Poem), May, 46; *Frank, Joseph* Yves Bonnefoy, Feb., 27; *Fromm, Gloria G.* Saving Rupert Brooke, a review of The Neo-Pagans: Rupert Brooke & the Ordeal of Youth by Paul Delany (BOOKS), Sept., 71; The remains of Katherine Mansfield, a review of Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life by Claire Tomalin (BOOKS), June, 78; *Gardner, James* Poet of things past, a review of The Colloquies & Selected Letters of Guido Gozzano translated from the Italian by J. C. Nichols (BOOKS), Oct., 77 *Geist, Sidney* Brancusi, Brancusi, a review of Brancusi by Radu Varia & Brancusi by Pontus Hultén, et al. (BOOKS), Jan., 60 *Gibson, Eric* Ann Beattie, art critic, a review of Alex Katz by Ann Beattie (BOOKS), Oct., 74; Talk shows at the Met, on the recorded audio tours at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NOTEBOOK), Nov., 79; Life of the artist, a review of The Life of Henry Moore by Roger Berthoud (BOOKS), Dec., 81; Nadelman’s world (ART), Jan., 81; Reply to Danielle Rice (Letter), May, 87; More than meets the eye, a review of Manet’s Contemplation at the Gare St. Lazare by Harry Rand (BOOKS), June, 83; *Gilbert, Creighton* Zurbarán, for the most part, on the Zurbarán retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (ART), Dec., 57; The Rosso exhibition, or, difficulty partly overcome (ART), Feb., 38; Just a glimpse of Giovanni Pisano (ART), Apr., 53; *Gill, Brendan* The facts about Frank Lloyd Wright (Letter), Mar., 79 *Golub, Leon* Morality tales (Letter), Jan., 78 *Graff, Gerald* The academy vs. the canon (Letter), Nov., 82 *Gress, David* Sartre & “Les Temps Modernes,” Mar., 19; “Talking ‘Terrorism’” at Stanford, on the conference Talking “Terrorism”: Ideologies & Paradigms in a Postmodern World, Apr., 15; *Gress, David* Stone v. Socrates, a review of The Trial of Socrates by I. F. Stone (BOOKS), June, 87; *Griffin, Walter* Aunt Ida & Lord Byron (Poem), June, 64; *Hadas, Rachel* Idolatry brood (Poem), Oct., 51; Bedtime (Poem), May, 45; *Hall, Donald* Cider 5¢ a glass (Poem), Feb., 33; *Harrison, Jeffrey* The harvest dance (Poem), June, 61 *Hines, Thomas* In the nature of the architect, a review of Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright by Brendan Gill (BOOKS), Jan., 67; Reply to Brendan Gill (Letter), Mar., 80 *Hirsch, Edward* Across the long dark border (Poem), Nov., 40; Out of the past (Poem), Nov., 42; *Hofstadter, Dan* Writing about Degas, a review of Degas by Denys Sutton & other recent works (BOOKS), May, 60 *Justice, Donald* Dance lessons of the Thirties (Poem), May, 44; *Kenyon, Jane* The three Susans (Poem), Mar., 45; *Ketcham, Diana* Frank Gehry in vogue (ARCHITECTURE), Mar., 50 *Kimball, Roger* The academy debates the canon, on Literary Theory & the Curriculum, a symposium at Yale, Sept., 31; Rousseau’s “virtue,” a review of Rousseau & the Republic of Virtue by Carol Blum (BOOKS), Nov., 55; Reply to Gerald Graff & John P. Sisk (Letter), Nov., 83 Frank Stella returns to the Modern, Dec., 21; The anguishes of E. M. Cioran, Mar., 37; Is MOMA attempting suicide?, on MOMA’s Contemporary Art in Context series, Apr., 30; Professor Hartman reconstructs Paul de Man, on Geoffrey H. Hartman’s defense of de Man in The New Republic, May, 36; Guns & other “hermeneutical acts” at Columbia, on Columbia’s Innovations in Education seminar (NOTEBOOK), May, 77; The death & resurrection of postmodern architecture, on Architecture & Education: The Past 25 Years & Assumptions for the Future, a symposium at Princeton, June, 21 *Kirsch, Bob* Introduction to “Cézanne’s maxims,” Dec., 42 *Kramer, Hilton* The happy critic: Arthur Danto in “The Nation,” Sept., 25; The Tynan phenomenon, Oct., 1; “Morality Tales” on tour, on the traveling exhibition Morality Tales: History Painting in 1980s, Nov., 1; Last—or lost—intellectuals?, on The Last Intellectuals by Russell Jacoby, Dec., 1; Reply to Leon Golub (Letter), Jan., 78; The Anselm Kiefer retrospective, Feb., 1; Thinking about “Witness,” Mar., 1; Rembrandt as Warhol: Svetlana Alpers’s “Enterprise,” Apr., 1; Whittaker Chambers & “Witness”: an exchange (with Diana Trilling), May, 1; *Leithauser, Brad* Reply to Louis Simpson (Letter), Oct., 86; Dead forms: the ghost story today, Dec., 29; *Lipman, Samuel* Is the symphony orchestra dead?, Sept., 1 The violinist of the age, on Josef Hassid (MUSIC), Oct., 53; Doing new music, doing American music, Nov., 5; “Is the symphony orchestra dead?”: an exchange (with Ernest Fleishman), Dec., 38; Juilliard life & death, a review of Nothing But the Best by Judith Kogan (BOOKS), Dec., 78 Ruminations on the romantic piano (MUSIC), Feb., 55; Reply to Thomas Nee (Letter), Feb., 87; The Flagstad legend, on the Norwegian soprano Kirsten Flagstad, Mar., 30; Kurt Herbert Adler, 1905–1988 (MUSIC), Apr., 71; Music & the good life: an exchange (with Joseph W. Polisi & James Sloan Allen), June, 1; *McConnell, Scott* Leaving the Party: the politics of Sterling Hayden, Jan., 1 *Mack, Dana* Schoenberg & the battles of modern music, Feb., 17 *Nee, Thomas* Doing new music, doing American music (Letter), Feb., 87 *Norris, Leslie* A sea in the desert (Poem), Apr., 39; *Pankey, Eric* If you can (Poem), Nov., 44; Driving south from Iowa City (Poem), Mar., 47; *Perl, Jed* The shows must go on, on the Whitney Biennial of 1987 & other shows (ART), Sept., 57; Welcome to Berlin, on Berlinart 1961-1987 at MOMA (ART), Oct., 58; Pollock & company, on Deborah Solomon’s Jackson Pollock & the exhibition Abstract Expressionism: The Critical Developments at the Albright-Knox Gallery (ART), Nov., 27; Photography & beyond, on the Starn Twins, Henri Cartier-Bresson & others (ART), Dec., 51; O’Keeffe in the capital, Jan., 22; Reply to John E. Scofield (Letter), Jan., 79; From September to December, a gallery round-up (ART), Feb., 43; What’s major? What’s minor?, on Neapolitan Crib figures, Alexander Calder & Hans Hoffmann (ART), Mar., 58; Yes, yes, a gallery round-up (ART), Apr., 58; Obituaries & retrospectives, on Picasso, Hélion & André Masson (LETTER FROM PARIS), May, 48; Gallery-going, on Joan Snyder, Ned Small & others (ART), June, 70; *Polisi, Joseph W. (& James Sloan Allen)* Music & the good life: an exchange (with Samuel Lipman), June, 1 *Prescott, Theodore* An evening at the University of the Arts, on Art: Act of Political Conscience, a lecture by the painter Sue Coe (NOTEBOOK), Feb., 77 *Pritchard, William H.* The critic as storyteller, a review of Four Dubliners by Richard Ellmann (BOOKS), Nov., 67 *Resnikova, Eva* Dutch treat, on Jiri Kylián’s Netherlands Dance Theater (DANCE), Sept., 53; The Bolshoi at the Met (DANCE), Oct., 63; Trisha Brown uptown (DANCE), Nov., 45; Martha Graham carries on (DANCE), Dec., 63; Thanks for the memory: “Le Sacre” at the Joffrey (DANCE), Jan., 46; Tropical fever in midtown, on reconstructions of Katherine Dunham dances by the Alvin Ailey company (DANCE), VI 6, Feb. 1988, 59; .P Resnikova, Eva Showdance, on Danny Buraczeski’s Jazzdance company, the Ice Capades & a revival of Jerome Kern’s Sally (DANCE), Mar., 63; Robbins, dances, on Jerome Robbins’s Ives, songs (DANCE), Apr., 67; Easy watching, on Lar Lubovitch (DANCE), May, 57; Tinkerer, Taylor, on Paul Taylor at City Center (DANCE), June, 65; *Rice, Danielle* The Met Portfolio Tours (Letter), May, 86 *Richman, Robert* Black Mountain comes to Bard, on the symposium Poetry at Black Mountain College (NOTEBOOK), Sept., 85; Death & the poet, a review of War Stories by Howard Nemerov (BOOKS), Jan., 72; The trials of a poet, a review of New & Selected Poems, 1940-1986 by Karl Shapiro (BOOKS), Apr., 74; *Rifkind, Donna* Old, new, buried, blue, a review of Family Skeletons by Henrietta Garnett (BOOKS), Sept., 82; No way out, a review of The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble (BOOKS), Nov., 70; Call it irresponsible, a review of Shifting Landscape by Henry Roth (BOOKS), Feb., 75; *Rosen, Michael J.* In Rousseau’s jungles (Poem), Sept., 51; Window washing (Poem), Mar., 48; *Salter, Mary Jo* Unfinished painting (Poem), Nov., 38 *Scofield, John E.* Pollock & company (Letter), Jan., 78 *Shils, Edward* Totalitarians & antinomians: remembering the 30s & 60s, May, 6 *Simpson, Louis* The confinement of free verse (Letter), Oct., 86; The rise (Poem), Dec., 48; White oxen (Poem), Dec., 49; *Sisk, John P.* The academy vs. the canon (Letter), Nov., 83 *Sofield, David* Insomnia (Poem), Apr., 42; The sun rising (Poem), Apr., 43 *Solomon, Deborah* Live, from SoHo a review of The Vintage Contemporary Artists Series edited by Elizabeth Avedon (BOOKS), Feb., 71; Open house at the Pollocks, on the new Pollock-Krasner House & Study Center in East Hampton, Long Island (NOTEBOOK), May, 81; *Sorrell, John Edward* Summer beyond the garden (Poem), Apr., 46 *Spires, Elizabeth* The beds (Poem), Sept., 49; Annonciade (Poem), Jan., 41; *Steele, Timothy* Aurora (Poem), Oct., 45; Youth (Poem), Oct., 46; Dependent nature (Poem), Oct., 47; Pacific rim (Poem), Oct., 48 *Sutton, Denys* The collecting life, a review of The Havemeyers by Frances Weitzenhoffer (BOOKS), Sept., 77; *Szamuely, George* The purest Hitchens, on the British political & literary journalist Christopher Hitchens (NOTEBOOK), Feb., 82 *Teachout, Terry* Seven hundred pretty good books, on the Book-of-the-Month Club at age sixty, Oct., 36; A liberated woman, on Rebecca West: A Life by Victoria Glendinning, Jan., 13; *Tomlinson, Charles* Hudson River School (Poem), Dec., 46 *Trilling, Diana* Whittaker Chambers & “Witness”: an exchange (with Hilton Kramer), May, 1 *Tuttleton, James W.* The androgynous Papa Hemingway, a review of Hemingway by Kenneth S. Lynn (BOOKS), Oct., 67 The trials of Edgar Allan Poe, Nov., 17; Sherwood Anderson: a room of his own, a review of Sherwood Anderson: A Biography by Kim Townsend (BOOKS), Dec., 67; Mr. Kazin: Have you no sense of decency, sir?, on Alfred Kazin’s attack on neoconservative intellectuals in Dissent (NOTEBOOK), Dec., 86; “A runaway dog like me”: Stephen Crane in his letters, VI 10, June 1988, 49; *Wilkin, Karen* Stuart Davis in his own time (ART), Jan., 50; Marsden Hartley: at home & abroad, Apr., 23; *Winegarten, Renee* Who was Paul Morand?, a review of Fancy Goods/Open All Night by Paul Morand, translated from the French by Ezra Pound (BOOKS), Nov., 73; André Gide: Faust or Mephistopheles?, Apr., 7; *Woodward, Richard B.* “I am the greatest”: Kruger & Albers (PHOTOGRAPHY), June, 74;

Volume 6 September 1987 – June 1988

Volume 6
September 1987 – June 1988