The New Criterion
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November 1985 Volume 4, Number 3  

Features

Is it all right to read Somerset Maugham?
by Joseph Epstein

Memory & responsibility: Claude Lanzmann’s “Shoah”
by Ewa Kuryluk

Remembering “Parsifal”
by Samuel Lipman


Poems

The eye egg
by Donald Petersen

Smiling for Foggerson
by Donald Petersen

That door
by Donald Petersen

Solitary woman
by Donald Petersen

This not that
by Donald Petersen

0 degrees
by Elizabeth Spires


Photography

Academic Surrealism
by Jed Perl
On L’Amour fou: Photography & Surrealism at the Corcoran Gallery.


Architecture

Dartmouth’s Hood Museum
by Roger Kimball


Theater

And all their minds transfigured
by Mimi Kramer
On New York’s lack of a regular theater-going audience & other matters.


Art

Dim “horizons” at the Guggenheim
by Eric Gibson
On New Horizons in American Art.

Michelangelo and the Quattrocento
by James Gardner


Books

What is “humanism"?
by James Tuttleton
A review of Irving Babbitt: An Intellectual Study by Thomas R. Nevin.

Degas laid bare
by Eugenia Parry Janis
A review of Degas: His Life, Times & Work by Roy McMullen.

Feminism and literature
by Carol Iannone
A review of The New Feminist Criticism: Essays on Women, Literature & Theory edited by Elaine Showalter.


Letters

The new Whitney Museum

Correction