The New Criterion
(Mobile Version)

March 1990 Volume 8, Number 7  

Notes & Comments

Refurbishing the rhetoric of revolution
On Pierre Bourdieu’s essay History Dawns in the East in the TLS.

Presenting politics, not art
On An American Dialogue, a report by the National Task Force on Presenting & Touring the Performing Arts.

Beyond perfection at the Kimbell
On the proposed expansion of the Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth, Texas.

Onward and upward with the arts
On the performance art of Annie Sprinkle.


Features

In the footsteps of Sade
by Roger Kimball
On Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia.

David Smith: the sculptor and his drawings
by Karen Wilkin

Arnold Toynbee & his “nonsense book”
by Elie Kedourie

Fictions & fabrications in autobiography today
by James Tuttleton

The song of Thomas Kinsella
by Floyd Skloot


Poems

Worldling
by Elizabeth Spires

Uncle Grant
by Brad Leithauser


Music

A recital of Pollini’s
by Samuel Lipman


Art

Classics without commercials
by Jed Perl
On galleries showing non-contemporary work.


Books

Ruined squire
by Robert Richman
A review of The Collected Poems of Sidney Keyes edited by Michael Meyer.

A privileged man
by David Pryce-Jones
A review of Where Joy Resides: A Christopher Isherwood Reader edited by Don Bachardy & James P. White.

Young Winston’s salvation
by David Fromkin
A review of The Story of the Malakand Field Force & other early works by Winston Churchill.