The New Criterion
(Mobile Version)

February 1985 Volume 3, Number 6  

Features

The phenomenon of Allen Ginsberg
by Bruce Bawer

Einstein’s long march to Brooklyn
by Samuel Lipman

Dufy among the pattern painters
by Jed Perl

A catalogue raisonné for Arthur Dove
by Hilton Kramer


Poems

Villanelle at sundown
by Donald Justice

American scenes (1904)
by Donald Justice

Notes from the hill
by James Aitchison


Letter from Europe

The new Berio-Calvino opera
by Dana Mack
A review of Un Re in ascolto.


Theater

Stalemate in Cambridge
by Mimi Kramer
On the American Repatory Theater’s production of Samuel Beckett’s Endgame.


Dance

An American “Giselle”
by Eva Resnikova


Art

The small-scale paintings of Cavallino
by Creighton Gilbert

The Borofsky spectacle
by Eric Gibson


Books

The sins of the father
by Roger Kimball
A review of Home Before Dark by Susan Cheever.

Stodgy pudding
by Herb Greer
A review of English Journey by J. B. Priestley.

Fitzgerald tales
by Sonya Rudikoff
A review of James R. Mellow’s Invented Lives: F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.


Notebook

A crow for the Queen
by Robert Richman