The New Criterion
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November 1986 Volume 5, Number 3  

Features

Rewriting the history of American literature
by James Tuttleton
On the work of Lawrence Buell & Sacvan Bercovitch.

A peculiarly dark utopian: H. G. Wells
by Brad Leithauser

Art & architecture at the Equitable Center
by Roger Kimball

The mystery of Theodore Dreiser
by Joseph Epstein


Poems

The carpenter
by Daniel Mark Epstein

Composition in neutral tones
by Patricia Clark

Daughters denying the dreams of their father
by David Bergman

Work
by Luke Zilles

Wildflowers
by Florence Grossman

Windfalls
by Florence Grossman


Music

The Met’s failed Walküre
by Samuel Lipman


Art

The sketchbooks of Picasso
by Jed Perl

Little bronzes from Vienna
by Creighton Gilbert
On Renaissance Master Bronzes from the Collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Washington, D.C.


Fiction Chronicle

All in the family
by Bruce Bawer
On The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt, The Beet Queen by Louise Erdrich & other recent American fiction.


Books

Doomed poet
by David Paul
A review of The Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire.

Benjamin’s Moscow
by René Wellek
A review of Moscow Diary by Walter Benjamin.

The “monster” myth
by Robert Richman
A review of Robert Frost Himself by Stanley Burnshaw.