Index

The New Criterion

Volume 7

September 1988 – June 1989

Abowitz, Richard

  • Revolution by search committee, on June Jordan’s appointment to the English faculty of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Apr., 30

Agee, William C.

  • Stuart Davis (Letter), Dec., 80;

Applebaum, Anne

  • The case of “Res Publica,” on Poland’s leading intellectual magazine (LETTER FROM WARSAW), Mar., 59

Baker, Brock

  • A novelist derailed, a review of Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe (BOOKS), Oct., 77;
  • Boyhood adventure, a review of Desert Islands by Walter de la Mare (BOOKS), Jan., 74;

Bawer, Bruce

  • The poetic legacy of William Carlos Williams, Sept., 14;
  • Léonie Adams, poet, Oct., 21;
  • Grand Central Station, 20 December 1987 (Poem), Oct., 41;
  • Jean Stafford’s triumph, a review of Jean Stafford: A Biography by David Roberts (BOOKS), Nov., 61;
  • A genius for publicity, a review of Stories in an Almost Classical Mode by Harold Brodkey (BOOKS), Dec., 58;
  • Under the aspect of eternity: the fiction of Flannery O’Connor, Jan., 35;
  • Reply to John Haines (Letter), Jan., 78;
  • Conrad Aiken’s pilgrimage, Feb., 24;
  • I. A. Richards: critic as scientist, Mar., 29
  • Doubles & more doubles, a review of Moon Palace by Paul Auster & Latecomers by Anita Brookner (BOOKS), Apr., 67;
  • States of grace: the novels of William Maxwell, May, 26;
  • The mild-mannered humanist, on The Pleasures of Reading by Robert Alter, June, 30;

Bloch, Bradley W.

  • Between art & a hard place, on Art in the 80s & 90s, a lecture by Whitney curator Lisa Phillips, at the Learning Annex (NOTEBOOK), Feb., 76;
  • What’s the use?, a review of Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory by Barbara Herrnstein Smith (BOOKS), Apr., 74

Bolton, Joe

  • Elegy at summer’s end (Poem), May, 51

Breton, Marcela

  • The canon under siege (Letter), Nov., 79;

Brown, Frederick

  • Zola & the Commune, Apr., 20

Campbell, Lawrence

  • Frankfurter’s “Art News” (Letter), Jan., 79

Corbett, William

  • Daddy dearest (Letter), Nov., 78

Davison, Peter

  • Cracks in the universe (Poem), Nov., 44

de Zengotita, Thomas

  • The Dalton school of hermeneutics (Letter), Sept., 85

Di Piero, W. S.

  • Leopardi’s “A Se Stesso” (Poem), Dec., 41
  • Leopardi’s “A Silvia” (Poem), Dec., 42

Dorn, Alfred

  • The lie (Poem), Mar., 41

Eaton, Charles Edward

  • Moonlight & madness (Poem), Nov., 47

Epstein, Joseph

  • The short happy life of Robert Louis Stevenson, Nov., 22
  • The good-natured pessimist, on Italo Svevo, June, 14

Falcoff, Mark

  • Victoria Ocampo’s “Sur,” on the Argentine literary journal, Oct., 27;
  • The doleful legacy of Carlton Beals, a review of Carlton Beals: A Radical Journalist in Latin America by John A. Britton (BOOKS), Feb., 62

Feldman, Irving

  • The runners (Poem), Feb., 44

Fentress, Elizabeth Connell

  • Why I left graduate school (NOTEBOOK), June, 77

Flook, Maria

  • The lake (Poem), May, 50

Foerster, Richard

  • Naming the plants along the Blue Ridge in late winter (Poem), June, 37

Fowlie, Wallace

  • Remembering Léonie Adams, Oct., 16

Frank, Joseph

  • Eric Kahler & “the predicament of our age,” Apr., 15

Freedberg, S. J.

  • Berenson, connoisseurship & the history of art, Feb., 7

Gibson, Eric

  • William Tucker’s American decade (ART), VII 1, Sept. 1988, 45; .q Gibson, Eric Bryan Hunt at Cornell (ART), Oct., 63
  • The other Rothko scandal, on Mark Rothko’s Harvard murals (NOTEBOOK), Oct., 85;
  • In search of Camille Claudel (ART), Nov., 54;
  • Between two worlds: the art of David Bomberg (ART), Dec., 49;
  • The “Mephistopheles” of sculpture: Medardo Rosso today (ART), Feb., 49;
  • Donald Judd: the end of sculpture (ART), Apr., 53;
  • Looking at Warhol, on Andy Warhol: A Retrospective at MOMA (ART), May, 59;

Gilbert, Creighton

  • A fresh view of young Poussin, on Poussin: The Early Years in Rome at the Kimbell Museum, Dec., 35;
  • Reply to J. Patrice Marandel (Letter), Feb., 79;
  • Sienese storytellers, on Painting in Renaissance Siena, 1420–1500 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (ART), Apr., 45;

Gress, David

  • The year that changed everything: 1968, May, 7;

Griffin, Walter

  • Harvestmen (Poem), Oct., 42

Gurevich, David

  • Glasnost, ho!, a review of Children of the Arbat by Anatoli Rybakov (BOOKS), Sept., 77;
  • Zamyatin: a heretic for all times, Dec., 21;
  • Picadilly’s Scheherazade, a review of The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie (BOOKS), Mar., 68;
  • Games computers play, a review of Hence by Brad Leithauser (BOOKS), May, 81;

Haines, John

  • William Carlos Williams (Letter), Jan., 77

Harrison, Jeffrey

  • The clearing (Poem), Sept., 44;
  • Approaching Alahan (Poem), Oct., 38;
  • Prayer rug (Poem), Oct., 40

Hart, Jeffrey

  • “Out of it ere night”: the WASP gentleman as cultural ideal, Jan., 27;

Helprin, Mark

  • The canon under siege, Sept., 33;
  • Reply to Marcela Breton (Letter), Nov., 79

Hirsch, Edward

  • American apocalypse (Poem), Jan., 42

Hofstadter, Dan

  • The figurative Fifties (ART), May, 63

Hook, Sidney

  • Whittaker Chambers’s “Witness” (Letter), Sept., 82

Hooper, Patricia

  • Wearing my son’s shirt (Poem), Mar., 37;

Justice, Donald

  • On a woman of spirit who taught both piano & dance (Poem), May, 52;

Kanter, Laurence B.

  • Sienese storytellers (Letter), June, 87

Kenyon, Jane

  • Father & son (Poem), Oct., 43;
  • The pear (Poem), Oct., 44;
  • Christmas away from home (Poem), Nov., 48;

Kimball, Roger

  • Looking after virtue, a review of Whose Justice? Which Rationality? by Alasdair MacIntyre (BOOKS), Sept., 64;
  • Reply to Thomas de Zengotita (Letter), Sept., 87;
  • The “October” syndrome, on October: The First Decade edited by Annette Michelson, Rosalind Krauss, et al., Oct., 5;
  • The philosophical porcupine, on Wittgenstein: A Life by Brian McGuinness, Dec., 5;
  • Trouble in paradise: the gospel according to Pagels, on Adam, Eve & the Serpent by Elaine Pagels, Jan., 18;
  • A classicist on the couch, a review of Jane Ellen Harrison: The Mask & the Self by Sandra J. Peacock (BOOKS), Mar., 72;
  • Is modernism the enemy? The case of Mies van der Rohe, a review of Architects of Fortune: Mies van der Rohe & the Third Reich by Elaine S. Hochman (BOOKS), May, 67;
  • A Stirling performance at Cornell, on James Stirling’s performing arts center at Cornell University (ARCHITECTURE), June, 56;

Klinghoffer, David

  • Arriving where she started, a review of Horse-Trading & Ecstasy by Barbara Probst Solomon (BOOKS), June, 66

Knight, Christopher

  • AIDS & the Holocaust (Letter), Apr., 82

Kramer, Hilton

  • Rehabilitating the Russian avant-garde, on Russian & Soviet Paintings 1900–1930 at the Hirshhorn Museum, Sept., 1
  • How good was Gauguin?, Oct., 1;
  • A nostalgia for innocence: Martin Green’s “New York 1913,” Dec., 1;
  • Miró’s paradox: what happened after the “death of painting,” Jan., 1;
  • Studying the arts & humanities: what can be done?, Feb., 1;
  • Was Rothko an abstract painter?, Mar., 1;
  • Modern art at the National Gallery, on 20th-Century Art: Selections for the Tenth Anniversary of the East Building at the National Gallery in Washington, Apr., 1;
  • Art, anarchism & Félix Fénéon, May, 1;
  • Notes on early American modernism, on Over Here: Modernism, the First Exile 1914-1919 at Brown University, June, 1;

Lake, Paul

  • Pieces (Poem), Feb., 41;

Lazere, Donald

  • “Politics of Letters” (Letter), Mar., 86;

Lipman, Samuel

  • The NEA: looking back & looking ahead, Sept., 6;
  • The Muse under Mussolini, on Music in Fascist Italy by Harvey Sachs (MUSIC), Oct., 46;
  • Leadership in democratic culture: the case of Nancy Hanks, Nov., 1;
  • The Harvard Cage, on John Cage’s Norton Lectures at Harvard (MUSIC), Dec., 44;
  • New York music: the crisis continues (MUSIC), Jan., 46;
  • Pierre Monteux & the criterion of success, Feb., 17
  • American quartet music, old & new, Mar., 15;
  • Karajan: the last time? (MUSIC), Apr., 42;
  • Toscanini & the love of great music, on Understanding Toscanini by Joseph Horowitz, May, 18;
  • The great music director hunt (MUSIC), June, 40;

Lord, James

  • Discovering Degas, Sept., 27

Mack, Dana

  • Furtwängler on trial, Nov., 34;

McPherson, Sandra

  • Gulls in frost (Poem), Feb., 43;

Mainwaring, Marion

  • Feminists & Edith Wharton (Letter), June, 85;

Marandel, J. Patrice

  • The young Poussin (Letter), Feb., 79

Meadows, Edward

  • Kingsley Amis (Letter), Feb., 79

Moffett, Kenworth W.

  • Painting like the Old Masters: Odd Nerdrum (ART), Feb., 54

Myers, D. G.

  • Marx & English, a review of Politics of Letters by Richard Ohmann (BOOKS), Nov., 72;

Myers, D. G.

  • The canonization of Susan Warner (NOTEBOOK), Dec., 73;
  • Reply to Richard Ohmann & Donald Lazere (Letter), Mar., 88;
  • Reply to Victor Strandberg (Letter), Apr., 83;
  • How not to speak for the humanities, on the pamphlet Speaking for the Humanities by George Levine for the American Council of Learned Societies (NOTEBOOK), May, 85;

Neusner, Jacob

  • Reconstructing de Man (Letter), Sept., 85

Norris, Leslie

  • Decoys (Poem), Feb., 45;

Ohmann, Richard

  • “Politics of Letters” (Letter), Mar., 86

Padhi, Bibhu

  • Migratory cranes near Lake Chilka (Poem), Apr., 37

Pankey, Eric

  • Homage (Poem), Apr., 40;
  • After the burial (Poem), Apr., 41

Perl, Jed

  • All around the town, a gallery round-up (ART), Sept., 50;
  • Hockney’s people (ART), Oct., 59;
  • Announcements, on gallery announcements & catalogues (ART ), Nov., 50;
  • A dissent on Kiefer, Dec., 14;
  • International episode: the 1988 Carnegie Inter-national (ART), Jan., 59;
  • Master Courbet, on Courbet Reconsidered at the Brooklyn Museum, Feb., 36;
  • Autumn alphabet, a gallery round-up (ART), Mar., 42;
  • Reply to William Rubin & Peter Schjeldahl (Letter), Mar., 85;
  • They do it their way, on the “Englishness” of English art (LETTER FROM LONDON), Apr., 56;
  • Reply to Christopher Knight (Letter), Apr., 83;
  • How simple everything could be!, on The Pastoral Landscape: The Legacy of Venice & the Modern Vision at the Phillips Collection & the National Gallery (ART), May, 53;
  • Keeping the faith, on the talented & untrendy among today’s easel painters (ART), June, 45;

Phillips, Robert

  • The black swan at Schloss Benrath (Poem), Feb., 42;

Prunty, Wyatt

  • The bed (Poem), Apr., 39

Pryce-Jones, David

  • Remembering India, a review of Thy Hand, Great Anarch! by Nirad C. Chaudhuri (BOOKS), May, 77

Resnikova, Eva

  • Slaughter on Columbus Avenue: the American Music Festival (DANCE), Sept., 60;
  • A vanity affair, on Cynthia Gregory & Fernando Bujones’s Together! (DANCE), Dec., 55;
  • After the ball: “Cotillon” at the Joffrey (DANCE), Jan., 65;
  • The inside dope on Ballet Theatre, on the book Private View by John Fraser (DANCE), Feb., 56;
  • Black & blue on Broadway, on the tap-dance revue Black & Blue (DANCE), Apr., 60;

Richman, Robert

  • The poetry of Robert Graves, a review of Robert Graves: The Assault Heroic by Richard Perceval Graves & Collected Poems by Robert Graves (BOOKS), Oct., 66;
  • Between decorum & abandon, a review of Morning Run by Jonathan Galassi & Poems: New & Selected by Frederick Morgan (BOOKS), Feb., 68;
  • The “Collected” Philip Larkin, Apr., 5;
  • At the intersection of art & life, a review of Poetry & the World by Robert Pinsky & The Government of the Tongue by Seamus Heaney (BOOKS), June, 68;

Rifkind, Donna

  • Hunger artist, a review of Passage from Home by Isaac Rosenfeld & Preserving the Hunger: An Isaac Rosenfeld Reader edited by Mark Schechner (BOOKS), Nov., 75;

Rubin, William

  • A dissent on Kiefer (Letter), Mar., 84

Sacks, Peter

  • As birds reviving from the cold will sing (Poem), May, 49

Schjeldahl, Peter

  • A dissent on Kiefer (Letter), Mar., 84;

Shoemaker, Jack

  • “Forbidden Territory” (Letter), Apr., 84

Sisson, C. H.

  • Yeats revisited, a review of The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Vol. I: The Poems edited by Richard J. Finneran (BOOKS), June, 61;

Skloot, Floyd

  • Still life without father (Poem), Mar., 38;
  • The bow (Poem), Mar., 39;

Smith, William Jay

  • A locket for Emily Dickinson (Poem), June, 36;

Solomon, Deborah

  • Daddy dearest, a review of Night Studio by Musa Mayer & Memoir of a Modernist’s Daughter by Eleanor Munro (BOOKS), Sept., 72;
  • Reply to William Corbett (Letter), Nov., 78;
  • Reply to Robert Storr (Letter), Dec., 79;
  • The hidden legacy of Anne Ryan (ART), Jan., 53;
  • Reply to Lawrence Campbell (Letter), Jan., 79;
  • The resurrection of Man Ray, Mar., 22;
  • The drama of Madame Lebrun, a review of Memoirs by Madame Vigée Lebrun (BOOKS), June, 74;

Spires, Elizabeth

  • Victoriana: gold mourning pendant with an eye painted on ivory (Poem), Sept., 41;
  • Rosa Tacchini (Poem), Sept., 43;

Storr, Robert

  • Remembering Philip Guston (Letter), Dec., 79

Strandberg, Victor

  • Susan Warner’s canonization (Letter), Apr., 83

Strehlke, Carl

  • Brandon Sienese storytellers (Letter), June, 87

Sutton, Denys

  • Rodin in the round, a review of Rodin: A Biography by Frederic V. Grunfeld (BOOKS), Oct., 80;

Teachout, Terry

  • A touch of class, on the novels of Kingsley Amis, Nov., 8;
  • Father Babbitt’s flock, a review of Wheat That Springeth Green by J. F. Powers (BOOKS), Jan., 69;
  • Down & out in British Columbia, a review of George Orwell: A Reassessment edited by Peter Buitenhuis & Ira B. Nadel (BOOKS), Mar., 79;

Tuttleton, James W.

  • Becoming a literary cuss, a review of Mark Twain’s Letters, Vol. I: 1853-;1866 edited by Edgar Marquess Branch, et al.(BOOKS), Oct., 73;
  • The feminist takeover of Edith Wharton, Mar., 6;
  • Politics & art in the criticism of F. O. Matthiessen, June, 4;
  • Reply to Annette Zilversmit & Marion Mainwaring (Letter), June, 86;

Vine, Richard

Wade, Sidney

  • Championship ballroom dancing (Poem), June, 38

Weiner, Lauren

  • Outside looking in, a review of Forbidden Territory: The Memoirs of Juan Goytisolo, 1931–1956 (BOOKS), Dec., 69;
  • Israelis & discontents, a review of Five Seasons by A. B. Yehoshua (BOOKS), Apr., 78;
  • Reply to Jack Shoemaker (Letter), Apr., 84;

Wilborn, William

  • The gift (Poem), Oct., 45

Wilkin, Karen

  • Georges Braque at the Guggenheim (ART), Oct., 52;
  • Boccioni’s future: a retrospective, Nov., 18;
  • Paris & the Impressionists, a review of Impressionism: Art, Leisure & Parisian Society by Robert L. Herbert (BOOKS), Mar., 63;
  • Refiguring the Guggenheim, on Refigured Painting: The German Image 1960–1988 (ART), June, 51;

Winegarten, Renee

  • Romain Rolland & political kitsch, Jan., 7;

Wood, James N.

  • Are our museums adrift?, June, 27

Zilversmit, Annette

  • Feminists & Edith Wharton (Letter), June, 83