The New Criterion
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November 1984 Volume 3, Number 3  

Features

Stalinism then and now: an exchange
by Hilton Kramer

Cultural policy: whither America, whither government?
by Samuel Lipman

Learning from Leavis
by Mark Stevens

Max Beckmann: the later work
by Dan Hofstadter

Henry James: assailed by the perceptions
by Joseph Epstein
On James in his letters.


Poems

Cleaning out the cellar
by Paul Mariani

The hawk climbs
by Leslie Norris

Inertia
by Richard Kenney


Photography

Ansel Adams: the politics of natural space
by Andy Grundberg


Music

Stravinsky's “Rake,” City Opera's progress
by Samuel Lipman


Art

The art of George McNeil
by Eric Gibson


Theater

Reactionary Papp
by Mimi Kramer
On the Joseph Papp Henry V.


Books

John Hawkes’s fan club
by Bruce Bawer
A review of Humors of Blood & Skin: A John Hawkes Reader.

The prosaic modern age
by Roger Kimball
A review of In the Age of Prose: Literary & Philosophical Essays by Erich Heller.

Finding a voice
by Robert Richman
A review of Each Leaf Shines Separate by Rosanna Warren.