The New Criterion
(Mobile Version)

January 1985 Volume 3, Number 5  

Features

Copland’s world
by Samuel Lipman

Margaret Mitchell in the Soviet Union
by Boris Paramonov
Translated from Russian by Jane Bobko.

Cézanne’s watercolors
by Sidney Geist

Civilization and its malcontents: responses to “Typee”
by Peter Shaw


Poems

Correspondence
by Henri Coulette

Postscript
by Henri Coulette

In Westgate Garden
by Carol Rumens

Winter solstice, 1983
by Michael Blumenthal

The visit
by Jane Kenyon

Sick at summer’s end
by Jane Kenyon

November calf
by Jane Kenyon


Art

The minimal and the magical
by Eric Gibson
On the work of Joel Shapiro and Romare Bearden.

A forgotten Golden Age
by E.V. Thaw
On “Danish Painting: The Golden Age” at the National Gallery, London.


Theater

Making Whoopi
by Mimi Kramer
On Whoopi Goldberg’s self-titled Broadway performance.


Books

The Eliot riddle
by Bruce Bawer
A review of Peter Ackroyd’s T. S. Eliot: A Life.

Ehrenburg’s life
by Robert Conquest
A review of Ilya Ehrenburg by Anatol Goldberg.

Hawthorne’s “secret”
by James Tuttleton
A review of Hawthorne’s Secret by Philip Young.


Notebook

On collecting
by Jed Perl

Steinway on the block
by Samuel Lipman

Who’s afraid of Tom Wolfe?
by Robert Richman


Letters

Censorship & “20th-Century Culture”
by Noam Chomsky

Lillian Hellman
by Hilton Kramer

Watteau in Washington
by Jed Perl

Ivy Litvinov
by Samuel Lipman