The New Criterion
(Mobile Version)

April 1985 Volume 3, Number 8  

Features

Kandinsky in Paris
by Hilton Kramer

The outrageous Mr. Wu
by Joseph Epstein
On Evelyn Waugh.

The representational impulse: painting in New York 1960-1985
by Jed Perl

Don DeLillo’s America
by Bruce Bawer
A review of White Noise.


Poems

Two shadows
by Elizabeth Spires

Street scene
by Elizabeth Spires

To the honourable committee
by William Logan


Music

Live from the Met
by Samuel Lipman


Art

Caravaggio and all the others
by Creighton Gilbert


Theater

Semi-detached theater
by Mimi Kramer
On recent Broadway plays.


Books

Avant-garde assortment
by David Paul
A review of The Innocent Eye by Roger Shattuck.

The deeds and words of Ivy Compton-Burnett
by Sonya Rudikoff
A review of Ivy: The Life of I. Compton-Burnett by Hilary Spurling.

Schopenhauer’s world
by Roger Kimball
A review of The Philosophy of Schopenhauer by Bryan Magee.