The New Criterion
(Mobile Version)

October 1990 Volume 9, Number 2  

Notes & Comments

The new liberal orthodoxy

Rediscovering the New World

The Heath travesty of American literature


Features

Irving Howe at seventy
by Hilton Kramer

The truth about Simone de Beauvoir?
by Renee Winegarten

Modern instances: the art of the Macchiaioli
by W. S. Di Piero

A proliferation of Rabbits
by Bruce Bawer
On the “Rabbit” novels of John Updike.

The "Ring", the Metropolitan Opera, and James Levine
by Samuel Lipman


Poems

Lucky
by Theodore Weiss

Something kept
by Theodore Weiss

A ring of quail bones
by Brendan Galvin

Natural history
by Karl Kirchwey


Art

Classical fragments
by Jed Perl
On On Classic Ground: Picasso, Léger, de Chirico & the New Classicism 1910-1930 at the Tate Gallery.


Music

Janácek at the City Opera
by Dana Mack


Books

Lincoln's generals: Sherman and Grant in their memoirs
by James Tuttleton
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.

A Balanchine creation
by Moira Hodgson
A review of Holding On to the Air by Suzanne Farrell, with Toni Bentley.

Losing faith
by Paul Hollander
A review of Breaking with Communism: The Intellectual Odyssey of Bertram D. Wolfe edited by Robert Hessen.

Anti-Anglo attitudes
by Paul Johnson
A review of Blood, Class & Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies by Christopher Hitchens.

Shorter notice
by Lauren Weiner
Of Violet: The Story of the Irrepressible Violet Hunt by Barbara Belford.

Shorter notice
by Donald Lyons
Of Greek Fire: The Influence of Ancient Greece on the Modern World by Oliver Taplin.

Shorter notice
by Bruce Bawer
Of American Poetry: Wildness & Domesticity by Robert Bly.

Shorter notice
by Brock Baker
Of Family Sins by William Trevor.


Notebook

Jacques Soustelle, 1912–1990
by Mark Falcoff


Letters

Letters
Regarding Sidney Keyes and Walter Benjamin.