The New Criterion
(Mobile Version)

October 1989 Volume 8, Number 2  

Notes & Comments

Hammer & sickle as cutting edge, or, Gorbasm in the art world

Spreading culture
On the launching of Public Culture magazine.

“The showbizification of the world”
On Stephen Sondheim’s appointment to the faculty of Oxford University.


Features

The contemporary sophist
by Roger Kimball
On Stanley Fish.

Frankenthaler and her critics
by Karen Wilkin

Graham Greene: the Catholic novels
by Bruce Bawer

Bicentennial blahs
by Jed Perl
On the Paris art scene circa 1989.


Poems

Tenure
by Henri Coulette

At the Spanish steps in Rome
by Jane Kenyon

Spring snow
by Jane Kenyon

When it stops
by Herbert Morris


Music

Marian Anderson: the diva from Philadelphia
by Samuel Lipman


Photography

Questions about the vernacular
by David H. Wright
On various exhibitions celebrating 150 years of photography.


Dance

Kirovmania in New York
by Eva Resnikova


Books

Made of Steiner stuff
by John Simon
A review of Real Presences by George Steiner.

The use of history
by Craig S. Lerner
A review of August 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

How would it look in English?
by C.H. Sisson
A review of The Art of Translation edited by Rosanna Warren.

Looking back at Caroline Gordon
by Lauren Weiner
A review of Close Connections: Caroline Gordon & the Southern Renaissance by Ann Waldron & Caroline Gordon by Veronica A. Makowsky.


Letters

Edith Wharton redux