The New Criterion
(Mobile Version)

January 1991 Volume 9, Number 5  

Notes & Comments

Affirmative-action book prizes
On the political agenda of certain National Book Award jurors.

The auction disasters
On the collapse of the contemporary-art market.


Features

“Tenured Radicals”: a postscript
by Roger Kimball

Walter Goldwater: a memoir
by Samuel Lipman

Donald Barthelme and “la vie quotidienne”
by Bruce Bawer

Is your translation really necessary?
by D.S. Carne-Ross
On Homer in today's English.

Titian’s daily practice
by Creighton Gilbert

Rebecca West: the fictions of fact and the facts of fiction
by Gloria G. Fromm


Poems

Nostos
by Rachel Hadas

Prescription change
by Eric Trethewey

Academic poem
by John Matthias

Another autumn
by C.H. Sisson


Art

Hip!? Hype!? Hooray!?
by Jed Perl
On Georg Baselitz, Carol Dunham & McDermott & McGough.


Theater

Circles
by Donald Lyons
On recent adaptations of Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle.


Music

Whiling away the hours
by Dana Mack
On the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Music for a While series.


Books

Portrait of a generation
by Norman Podhoretz
A review of Our Age by Noel Annan.

Weimar’s absent father
by Harold James
A review of Reminiscences & Reflections: A Youth in Germany by Golo Mann.

Mr. Burnshaw himself
by Robert Richman
A review of A Stanley Burnshaw Reader.

Who killed literature?
by D.G. Myers
A review of The Death of Literature by Alvin Kernan.

Shorter notice
by Lauren Weiner
Of A Chainless Soul: A Life of Emily Brontë by Katherine Frank.

Shorter notice
by Roger Kimball
Of Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America by Lucy R. Lippard.

Shorter notice
by Bruce Bawer
Of Continual Lessons: The Journals of Glenway Wescott 1937-1955 edited by Robert Phelps & Jerry Rosco.

Shorter notice
by Donald Lyons
Of After Bakhtin: Essays on Fiction & Criticism by David Lodge.


Notebook

German music in America and England
by Samuel Lipman