The New Criterion
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March 1987 Volume 5, Number 7  

Features

The Met’s 20th-century folly
by Hilton Kramer

Vladimir Nabokov: ardor and art
by Fernanda Eberstadt
A review of Andrew Field's biography of Vladimir Nabokov.

The Orsay experience
by James Lord
On the Musée d’Orsay.

What is “modern” poetry?
by Bruce Bawer
A review of A History of Modern Poetry by David Perkins.


Poems

Landscape
by William Virgil Davis

Eastern Neck Island
by Elizabeth Spires

The celestial
by Elizabeth Spires

The two old ladies of September
by W. S. Di Piero

An old New England graveyard
by Peter Filkins

On yielding to whim
by Charles Martin


Dance

Love American-style
by Eva Resnikova
On Peter Martins's Les Petits Riens and Ecstatic Orange.


Music

Schnabel redivivus
by Samuel Lipman


Art

Van Gogh in Saint-Rémy and Auvers
by Dan Hofstadter

Jottings along the way
by Jed Perl


Books

Rothward bound
by Donna Rifkind
A review of The Counterlife by Philip Roth.

Indi(c)ting Bernard Berenson
by Michael M. Thomas
A review of Artful Partners by Colin Simpson.

Architecture redux
by Roger Kimball
A review of Architecture, Anyone? by Ada Louise Huxtable.

Tales from the other side
by Stephen Schwartz
A review of The Opposing Shore by Julien Gracq.


Notebook

Night comes to the Field Museum
by Victor M. Cassidy


Letters

Rewriting American literary history
by James Tuttleton