Index

The New Criterion

Volume 9

September 1990 – June 1991

Baer, William

  • Walking from Conimbriga (Poem), Sept., 54

Baker, Brock

  • Shorter notice of Family Sins by William Trevor (BOOKS), Oct., 82

Barr-Sharrar, Beryl

  • Polykleitos redivivus, on an exhibition of copies of works by the ancient Greek sculptor in Frankfurt am Rhein, Apr., 18

Bawer, Bruce

  • Willa Cather’s uncommon art, Sept., 44;
  • Shorter notice of Sur Plusiers Beaux Sujects: Wallace Stevens’ Commonplace Book edited by Milton J. Bates (BOOKS), Sept., 76;
  • A proliferation of Rabbits, on the “Rabbit” novels of John Updike, Oct., 1990, 30;
  • Shorter notice of American Poetry: Wildness & Domesticity by Robert Bly (BOOKS), Oct., 81;
  • Formal poetry in the land of the free, on Timothy Steele’s Missing Measures & related matters, Nov., 41;
  • Shorter notice of The Drummer of the Eleventh North Devonshire Fusiliers by Guy Davenport (BOOKS), Dec., 81;
  • Donald Barthelme & “la vie quotidienne,” Jan., 22;
  • Shorter notice of Continual Lessons: The Journals of Glenway Wescott 1937-1955 edited by Robert Phelps & Jerry Rosco (BOOKS), Jan., 82;
  • Sylvia Plath & the poetry of confession, Feb., 18;
  • The art of Ford Madox Ford, Mar., 33;
  • Notes from the surface, a review of American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (BOOKS), Apr., 56;
  • The Luther of science?, on The Alchymist’s Journal & other works by Evan S. Connell, June, 30

Blasing, Randy

  • Hardball (Poem), Apr., 33

Bowman, James

  • “Salmagundi”: the P is silent (NOTEBOOK), Apr., 74;
  • Hero, a review of Pericles of Athens & the Birth of Democracy by Donald Kagan (BOOKS), June, 63

Boyers, Robert

  • Irving Howe at seventy (Letter), Dec., 84

Branigan, J. Kevin

  • George Gissing (Letter), June, 80

Branyan, Richard H.

  • “The New Shostakovich” (Letter), June 1991, 79

Brooks, Cleanth

  • Walker Percy, 1916-1990 (NOTEBOOK), Sept., 82

Carduff, Christopher

  • Shorter notice of Pundits, Poets & Wits: An Omnibus of American Newspaper Columns edited by Karl E. Meyer (BOOKS), Sept., 80;
  • Shorter notice of Missing Pieces by Stanislaw Benski (BOOKS), Nov., 84;
  • Shorter notice of Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal (BOOKS), Dec., 83;
  • Shorter notice of In the Company of Writers by Charles Scribner, Jr. (BOOKS), Feb., 81;
  • Shorter notice of Wandering Ghost: The Odyssey of Lafcadio Hearn by Jonathan Cott (BOOKS), Mar., 84;
  • Shorter notice of Out of Step by Jonathan Yardley (BOOKS), Apr., 72;
  • Shorter notice of Author & Agent: Eudora Welty & Diarmuid Russell by Michael Kreyling (BOOKS), May, 80

Carne-Ross, D. S.

  • Is your translation really necessary?, on Homer in today’s English, Jan., 31

Davenport, Guy

  • Life, chance & Charles Darwin, a review of Charles Darwin: A New Life by John Bowlby (BOOKS), May 1991, 60

Davis, William Virgil

  • One year (Poem), Sept., 53

Di Piero, W. S.

  • Modern instances: the art of the Macchiaioli, Oct., 19

Drexel, John

  • Homecomings (Poem), June, 38

The Editors

  • Reply to Judy Weinperson (Letter), Sept., 88;
  • Reply to Paul Lauter (Letter), IX 4, Dec. 1990, 87

Epstein, Joseph

  • Reply to John Rodden (Letter), Sept., 86;
  • Selling Henry James, on teaching James to undergraduates at Northwestern University, Nov., 10;
  • Erich Heller, 1911–1990 (NOTEBOOK), Feb., 83;
  • Desmond MacCarthy’s familiar criticism, May, 16

Falcoff, Mark

  • Jacques Soustelle, 1912–1990 (NOTEBOOK), Oct., 84;
  • Literature & politics in Latin America, Dec., 26;
  • The historian’s craft, a review of Marc Bloch: A Life in History by Carole Fink (BOOKS), Mar., 77;
  • France between the lines, a review of My France by Eugen Weber (BOOKS), Apr., 63;
  • Orphans of utopia, on the 16th International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association in Crystal City, Va. (NOTEBOOK), June, 75

Frank, Elizabeth

  • (with Ruth Limmer) Louise Bogan & the Pulitzer (Letter), Dec., 84

Fromm, Gloria G.

  • Rebecca West: the fictions of fact & the facts of fiction, Jan., 44

Galvin, Brendan

  • A ring of quail bones (Poem), Oct., 70

Gibson, Eric

  • Jennifer Bartlett & the crisis of public art (ART), Sept., 62;
  • Becoming Brancusi, on Brancusi: Masterpieces from Romanian Museums at the Gagosian Gallery (ART), Feb., 58;
  • Fool’s gold: Sigmar Polke & the alchemy of critics (ART), June, 48

Gilbert, Creighton

  • Titian’s daily practice, Jan., 37;
  • The sitter in history, a review of Rennaissance Portraits by Lorne Campbell (BOOKS), Feb., 67

Griffin, Walter

  • New Year’s Eve (Poem), Feb., 46

Hadas, Rachel

  • Nostos (Poem), Jan., 54

Hammond, Mary Stewart

  • Found poem on the coffee table (Poem), Sept., 55

Hilton, Tim

  • Shock of the Hughes, a review of The Shock of the New & Nothing if Not Critical by Robert Hughes (BOOKS), June, 69

Hodgson, Moira

  • A Balanchine creation, a review of Holding On to the Air by Suzanne Farrell, with Toni Bentley (BOOKS), Oct., 70

Hodgson, Moira

  • After Diaghilev, a review of The Ballets Russes by Vicente García-Márquez (BOOKS), Mar., 80

Hollander, Paul

  • Losing faith, a review of Breaking with Communism: The Intellectual Odyssey of Bertram D. Wolfe edited by Robert Hessen (BOOKS), Oct., 72

Hofstadter, Dan

  • The pear tree (Poem), Feb., 48

Hudgins, Andrew

  • Raking out the nest (Poem), Dec., 44;
  • Prayer for an ex-wife (Poem), Dec., 45

Iannone, Carol

  • Under African eyes, a review of Hopes & Impediments: Selected Essays by Chinua Achebe (BOOKS), Dec., 76

James, Harold

  • Weimar’s absent father, a review of Reminiscences & Reflections: A Youth in Germany by Golo Mann (BOOKS), Jan., 73

Jimenez, Walt

  • Walter Benjamin (Letter), Oct., 86

Johnson, Paul

  • Anti-Anglo attitudes, a review of Blood, Class & Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies by Christopher Hitchens (BOOKS), Oct., 77

Jordan, Barbara

  • Dirt road, Kilcoe, Cork (Poem), Dec., 46

Kimball, Roger

  • The contradictions of Terry Eagleton, Sept., 17;
  • Shorter notice of Courbet’s Realism by Michael Fried (BOOKS), Sept., 79;
  • Shorter notice of I. M. Pei by Carter Wiseman (BOOKS), Dec., 82;
  • “Tenured Radicals”: a postscript, Jan., 4;
  • Shorter notice of Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America by Lucy R. Lippard (BOOKS), Jan., 81;
  • The periphery vs. the center: the MLA in Chicago, Feb., 8;
  • The disaffected populist: Christopher Lasch on progress, on Lasch’s The True & Only Heaven, Mar., 9;
  • Moral homicide: illiberal education in America, on Illiberal Education by Dinesh D’Souza, Apr., 5;
  • Academic psychobabble, or Richard Sennett goes to town, on Sennett’s The Conscience of the Eye: The Design & Social Life of Cities, May, 9;
  • Shorter notice of The Oxford Book of Essays edited by John Gross (BOOKS), May, 79;
  • Fredric Jameson’s laments, June, 9

Kirchwey, Karl

  • Natural history (Poem), Oct., 51

Kozodoy, Neal

  • The Lady J, a review of The Book of J, translated from the Hebrew by David Rosenberg & interpreted by Harold Bloom (BOOKS), Nov., 70

Kramer, Hilton

  • The prospect before us, on the state of the arts in America circa 1990, Sept., 6;
  • Shorter notice of The Great Terror: A Reassessment by Robert Conquest (BOOKS), Sept., 77;
  • Irving Howe at seventy, Oct., 6;
  • Art, revolution & Kazimir Malevich, Nov., 7;
  • The Varnedoe debacle: MOMA’s new “Low,”on Kirk Varnedoe, the new Director of the Department of Painting & Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, and his exhibition High & Low: Modern Art & Popular Culture, Dec., 5;
  • Reply to Robert Boyers (Letter), Dec., 85;
  • The young Picasso, on A Life of Picasso, Vol. I by John Richardson, Feb., 4;
  • The assault on the museums, on special-interest demands on curatorship, Mar., 4;
  • Thinking about “The Forties,” on The Art of the Forties at MOMA, May, 4
  • Seurat, one hundred years later, June, 4

Lauter, Paul

  • “The Heath Anthology” (Letter), Dec., 87

Limmer, Ruth

  • (with Elizabeth Frank) Louise Bogan & the Pulitzer (Letter), Dec., 84

Limmer, Ruth

  • Rolfe Humphries: in the American grain, Apr., 23

Lipman, Samuel

  • Shorter notice of From Russia to the West by Nathan Milstein & Solomon Volkov (BOOKS), Sept., 78;
  • Reply to David Saemann (Letter), Sept., 87;
  • The “Ring,” the Metropolitan Opera & James Levine, IX 2, Oct. 1990, 40;
  • Weisgall’s marvelous “Six Characters” (MUSIC), Nov., 52;
  • Shorter notice of Conversations with Von Karajan by Richard Osborne (BOOKS), Nov., 83;
  • Rehearing yesterday’s violinists, Dec., 19;
  • Walter Goldwater: a memoir, Jan., 14;
  • German music in America & England (NOTEBOOK), Jan., 85;
  • Shostakovich decoded?, on The New Shostakovich by Ian MacDonald (MUSIC), Feb., 50;
  • Finding Cortot’s place (MUSIC), Mar., 59;
  • Sellars trumps Mozart, on the PBS telecasts of three Mozart operas produced by Peter Sellars (MUSIC), Apr., 37;
  • Reply to Donald F. McCabe (Letter), Apr., 80;
  • Mengelberg at the Philharmonic (MUSIC), May, 44;
  • Said’s music, on Musical Elaborations by Edward Said, June, 17

Lourie, Richard

  • The Polish particulars, a review of Breathing under Water & Other East European Essays by Stanislaw Baranczak (BOOKS), May, 75;
  • What have you taught me, Robert Lowell (Poem), June, 36

Lyons, Donald

  • Shake-down & stand-up, on John Guare’s Eight Degrees of Separation & Jules Feiffer’s Elliot Loves (THEATER), Sept., 65;
  • The history & lamentable comedy of Joseph Papp’s “Richard III” (THEATER), Oct., 56;
  • Shorter notice of Greek Fire: The Influence of Ancient Greece on the Modern World by Oliver Taplin (BOOKS), Oct., 80;
  • Chekhov at Yale, of the Oleg Yefremov production of Ivanov in New Haven (THEATER), Nov., 56;
  • A miser & a hypocrite, on recent New York productions of Molière’s The Miser & Tartuffe (THEATER), Dec., 48;
  • Circles, on recent adaptations of Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle (THEATER), Jan., 63;
  • Shorter notice of After Bakhtin: Essays on Fiction & Criticism by David Lodge (BOOKS), Jan., 83;
  • The interests of the Group, on Real Life Drama: The Group Theatre & America, 1931-1940 by Wendy Smith (THEATER), Feb., 62;
  • Q.D.L., on the literary criticism of Q. D. Leavis, Mar., 22;
  • Backstage with Odets, on the Roundabout Theater Company revival of The Country Girl (THEATER), Mar., 70;
  • Büchner, Ibsen & Mr. Wilson’s highchairs, on Jean Cocteau Repertory productions of plays by Büchner & Ibsen & the American Repertory production of the Robert Brustein/Robert Wilson When We Dead Awaken (THEATER), Apr., 42;
  • Henry IV; monologists III, on Shakespeare’s play at the Public Theater & three one-woman shows on Broadway (THEATER), May, 49;
  • A crown of withered parsley, on Miss Saigon & other Broadway fare (THEATER), June, 52

McCabe, Donald F.

  • “The New Shostakovich” (Letter), Apr., 80

McDonald, Walter

  • Black wings wheeling (Poem), Apr., 32;
  • Leaving the middle years (Poem), June, 37

Mack, Dana

  • Janacek at the City Opera, on Christopher Keene’s production of From the House of the Dead (MUSIC), Oct., 60;
  • Evgeny Kissin at Carnegie Hall (MUSIC), Dec., 63;
  • Whiling away the hours, on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Music for a While series (MUSIC), Jan., 67;
  • For Mozart, poor Mozart, on the Mozart bicentennial in Vienna (NOTEBOOK), Mar., 85

Matthias, John

  • Academic poem (Poem), Jan., 56;
  • Not having read a single fairy tale (Poem), Feb., 47

Meyer, Michael

  • Sidney Keyes (Letter), Oct., 86

Meyers, Jeffrey

  • The Merton fieldmouse, a review of Edmund Blunden by Barry Webb (BOOKS), Apr., 60

Myers, D. G.

  • Who killed literature?, a review of The Death of Literature by Alvin Kernan (BOOKS), Jan., 78

Norris, Leslie

  • Borders (Poem), Nov., 49

NOTES & COMMENTS

  • In praise of “Survey,” Sept., 1;
  • A sign of the “Times,” on Michael Brenson’s essay Is “Quality” an Idea Whose Time Has Gone? in The New York Times, Sept, 2;
  • Red Seal survives, Sept., 3;
  • “The Yale Review” sentenced to death, IX 1, Sept. 1990, 4;
  • The new liberal orthodoxy, Oct., 1;
  • Rediscovering the New World, on the Columbus quincentennial & the music of the Americas, Oct., 2;
  • The Heath travesty of American literature, on The Heath Anthology of American Literature edited by Paul Lauter, Oct., 3;
  • A nostalgia for disaster, on the “unrealized promise” of Marxism for certain leftist writers, Nov., 1;
  • Making Cage a master, on the profile of John Cage on PBS’s American Masters series, Nov., 3;
  • After Cincinnati, Brooklyn gives us “the Unspeakable,” on Joseph Kosuth’s installation The Play of the Unspeakable at the Brooklyn Museum, Nov., 3;
  • Carnegie Hall at 100, Nov., 5;
  • Western civ at Yale?, on E Pluribus Unum, Donald Kagan’s address to the undergraduates at Yale College, Dec., 1;
  • Leonard Bernstein, 1918-1990, Dec., 3;
  • Affirmative-action book prizes, on the political agenda of certain National Book Award jurors, Jan., 1;
  • The auction disasters, on the collapse of the contemporary-art market, Jan., 2;
  • A farewell to decency, on “general standards of decency” & the NEA, Feb., 1;
  • The NEA & the states, on the congressionally mandated transfer of $12 million in annual NEA funds to state arts councils, Feb., 2;
  • “Practicing social change,” on the appointment of the feminist Gayatri Spivak to the English faculty of Columbia University, Mar., 1;
  • Exit MASS MOCA, on the failed plans for the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Mar., 2;
  • The NEA goes multicultural, on NEA staff training in “cultural diversity” & other matters, Apr., 1;
  • “White Male Writers” comes to Georgetown, on a course that teaches the works of Melville, Hawthorne, et al., as representative products of white American males, Apr., 2;
  • Next target, the art schools, on The New Art Examiner’s allegation that American art schools are guilty of “sexism, racism, and homophobia,” Apr., 3;
  • The outlook for the Barnes Foundation, May, 1;
  • Hate speech at Columbia, on Hate Speech, Sexual Harassment & Academic Freedom, a speech by Mari J. Matsuda at Columbia University, May, 2;
  • “Culture under Siege”—the politics of the Whitney Biennial, June, 1;
  • PC comes to music, on Richard Taruskin’s New York Times article dismissing Prokofiev’s music as a product of Stalinism, June, 2

Parker, Alan Michael

  • If steam is water’s memory (Poem), Dec., 47

Perl, Jed

  • Revaluating de Staël (ART), Sept., 57;
  • Classical fragments, on On Classic Ground: Picasso, Léger, de Chirico & the New Classicism 1910-1930 at the Tate Gallery (ART), Oct., 52;
  • New York stories, on Still Life Anthology at the Borgenicht Gallery, Robert Bermelin & other matters (ART), Nov., 62;
  • Romance, on Gabriel Laderman, Robert Kushner & Balthus (ART), Dec., 52;
  • Hip!? Hype!? Hooray!?, on Georg Baselitz, Carol Dunham & McDermott & McGough (ART), Jan., 59;
  • After the fall, meditations on the gallery season (ART), Feb., 55;
  • The neo-Baroque: Lipchitz & de Chirico (ART), Mar., 64;
  • Fauvists as tourists, on The Fauve Landscape at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (ART), Apr., 47;
  • Tradition-conscious, on Melissa Meyer, William Bailey, Philip Pearlstein & others (ART), May, 55;
  • Stuffed, on Mike Kelley at the Hirshhorn (ART), June, 45

Pevear, Richard (& Larissa Volokhonsky)

  • The new “Karamazov” (Letter), June, 78

Phillips, Robert

  • Visiting the Gregorys, a memoir of Horace Gregory & Marya Zaturenska, Sept., 24;
  • Reply to Louis Simpson (Letter), Nov., 88;
  • Reply to William Jay Smith (Letter), Feb., 87

Podhoretz, Norman

  • Portrait of a generation, a review of Our Age by Noel Annan (BOOKS), Jan., 70

Resnikova, Eva

  • Making omelettes, on the Japanese modern-dance company Sankai Juku (DANCE), Nov., 68
  • Don’t worry, be happy, on Mark Morris’s L’Allegro, Il Penseros ed Il Moderato (DANCE), Dec., 60

Richman, Robert

  • Epaulets & decorations, a review of Collected Earlier Poems & The Transparent Man by Anthony Hecht (BOOKS), Sept., 73;
  • Want list, a review of The Want Bone by Robert Pinsky (BOOKS), Dec., 70;
  • Mr. Burnshaw himself, a review of A Stanley Burnshaw Reader (BOOKS), Jan., 76;
  • Shorter notice of Robert Graves: The Years with Laura by Richard Perceval Graves (BOOKS), Feb., 80;
  • Shorter notice of Journals by Herman Melville (BOOKS), Mar., 83;
  • At a tangent, a review of Selected Poems, 1966-1987 by Seamus Heaney (BOOKS), Apr., 65

Rifkind, Donna

  • Katherine Anne Porter & the uses of fiction, Nov., 22;
  • Victorians’ secrets, a review of Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt (BOOKS), Feb., 77

Rodden, John

  • Orwell’s reputation (Letter), Sept., 86

Rosenthal, Deborah

  • Themes & variations: the art of Burgoyne Diller, Dec., 36;
  • Catching up to the past: Popova at MOMA, May, 27;
  • Shorter notice of Mondrian: Flowers by David Shapiro (BOOKS), June, 71

Rudich, Vasily

  • Dostoevsky’s idiom, a review of the Pevear & Volokhonsky translation of The Brothers Karamazov (BOOKS), Mar., 73

Rudich, Vasily

  • Russian classics, a review of The Cambridge History of Russian Literature edited by Charles A. Moser (BOOKS), May, 64;
  • Fundamentals of Soviet civilization, a review of Soviet Civilization: A Cultural History by Andrei Sinyavsky (BOOKS ), June, 58;
  • Reply to Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky (Letter), June 79

Saemann, David

  • Sir Colin Davis (Letter), Sept., 87;
  • Poetry workshops (Letter), Feb., 87

Salter, Mary Jo

  • Art lesson (Poem), Apr., 34;
  • Icelandic almanac (Poem), May, 40;
  • Lullaby for a daughter (Poem), May, 43;
  • Lament (Poem), May, 43

Schmertz, Mildred F.

  • Gordon Bunshaft, 1909-1990 (NOTEBOOK), Nov., 85

Schneider, Franz

  • Brecht & Döblin (Letter), Apr., 79

Scruton, Roger

  • The philosophical hedonist: Arthur C. Danto on art, a review of Encounters & Reflections by Arthur C. Danto (BOOKS), Sept., 69

Simon, John

  • François Truffaut: saved by the cinema, on Truffaut in his letters, Sept., 35;
  • The amoral superman: Bertolt Brecht in his letters, Dec., 9;
  • The condescending smile of the supreme enchanter, on Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years by Brian Boyd, Feb., 35;
  • Reply to Franz Schneider (Letter), Apr., 79

Simpson, Louis

  • Mark Strand & the Pulitzer (Letter), Nov., 88;
  • The cabin (Poem), Dec., 42

Sisson, C. H.

  • Another autumn (Poem), Jan., 58;
  • The writer & the Word, a review of Incarnation: Contemporary Writers on the New Testament edited by Alfred Corn (BOOKS), Feb., 75

Smith, William Jay

  • Rewarded journeys, a review of Secret Destinations: Selected Poems 1977-1988 by Charles Causley (BOOKS), Nov., 80;
  • Poems for young people (Letter), Feb., 87;
  • More poems for young people (Letter), Apr., 79

Solomon, Deborah

  • Barnett Newman’s big ideas, Mar., 17;
  • The art of the deal, a review of Betty Parsons: Artist, Dealer, Collector by Lee Hall (BOOKS), June, 66

Spires, Elizabeth

  • The awakening (Poem), Mar., 54;
  • The summer of Celia (Poem), Mar., 56;
  • The unfeminine flower (Poem), Mar., 57;
  • Good Friday. Driving westward. (Poem), Mar., 58

Symons, Julian

  • Capacities for invention, a review of Joseph Conrad: A Biography by Jeffrey Meyers (BOOKS), May, 68

Tanenhaus, Sam

  • Racconti italiani, a review of Name & Tears & Other Stories: Forty Years of Italian Fiction edited & translated by Kathrine Jason (BOOKS), Feb., 72

Teichman, Jenny

  • Love on the couch, a review of Love & Its Place in Nature: A Philosophical Interpretation of Freudian Psychoanalysis by Jonathan Lear (BOOKS), May, 72

Tracy, Walter

  • Shorter notice of Frederic Goudy by D. J. R. Bruckner (BOOKS), May, 78

Trethewey, Eric

  • Prescription change (Poem), Jan., 55

Tuttleton, James W.

  • Lincoln’s generals: Sherman & Grant in their memoirs, a review of The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman edited by Charles Royster & Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs & Selected Letters edited by Mary Drake McFeely & William S. McFeely (BOOKS), Oct., 63;
  • Arrogance & the canons of historical scholarship, a review of The Arrogance of Faith: Christianity & Race in America from the Colonial Era to the 20th Century by Forrest G. Wood (BOOKS), Dec., 66;
  • A solitary soul: the career of Kate Chopin, Apr., 12;
  • Quisling criticism: the case of Paul de Man, a review of Signs of the Times: Deconstruction & the Fall of Paul de Mann by David Lehman (BOOKS), Apr., 50;
  • Shorter notice of The Man Who Was Mark Twain by Guy Cardwell (BOOKS), June, 72

Vine, Richard

  • Reply to Walt Jimenez (Letter), Oct., 87

Volokhonsky, Larissa (& Richard Pevear)

  • The new “Karamazov” (Letter), June, 78

Wattenmaker, Richard J.

  • Maurice Prendergast at the Whitney, Nov., 33

Weiner, Lauren

  • Shorter notice of Violet: The Story of the Irrepressible Violet Hunt by Barbara Belford (BOOKS), Oct., 79; .P Weiner, Lauren Shorter notice of A Chainless Soul: A Life of Emily Brontë by Katherine Frank (BOOKS), Jan., 80;
  • Shorter notice of A Writer’s Reality by Mario Vargas Llosa (BOOKS), Apr., 71

Weinperson, Judy

  • Veritas? (Letter), Sept., 87

Weiss, Theodore

  • Lucky (Poem), Oct., 47;
  • Something kept (Poem), Oct., 49

Wilkin, Karen

  • Memoria in aeternum: Hans Hoffmann at the Whitney, Sept., 10;
  • Making sport of modern art, a review of A Fine Disregard: What Makes Modern Art Modern by Kirk Varnedoe (BOOKS), Nov., 75;
  • Abstract Expressionism revisited, on recent exhibitions of paintings by Willem de Kooning, Clyfford Still & Adolph Gottlieb, Feb., 28;
  • The young Old Master: Van Dyck in Washington, Mar., 47;
  • Delacroix at the Met, June, 23

Wilson, Robley, Jr.

  • The lesson (Poem), Sept., 56

Winegarten, Renee

  • The truth about Simone de Beauvoir?, Oct., 10;
  • Alexandre Dumas: fact & fiction, May, 32;
  • Théâtre du printemps (LETTER FROM PARIS), June, 40

Wiseman, Carter

  • Shorter notice of Classical Architecture by Robert Adam (BOOKS), June, 73

Woodward, Richard B.

  • Photo story, a review of W. Eugene Smith: Shadow & Substance: The Life & Work of an American Photographer by Jim Hughes (BOOKS), Dec., 73