The New Criterion
(Mobile Version)

December 1992 Volume 11, Number 4  

Notes & Comments

Post-Soviet denials (continued)

Recordings by the million


Features

Aesthetics & ideology in
by Hilton Kramer

The treason of the intellectuals & “The Undoing of Thought”
by Roger Kimball

Hemingway unbound
by James Tuttleton
On Hemingway: A Life without Consequences by James R. Mellow.


Poems

The way the petals fell
by Richard Tillinghast

Old address book
by Robert Shaw

Sharing the score
by X.J. Kennedy

Julianne-julienne
by John Frederick Nims


Music

The new empty Glass
by Samuel Lipman
On The Voyage by Philip Glass.


Art

On Hellenistic sculpture
by Beryl Barr-Sharrar


Theater

Theater of academe
by Donald Lyons
On David Mamet’s Oleanna & Simon Gray’s The Holy Terror.


Fiction Chronicle

Literature & revolution
by Bruce Bawer
On Leviathan by Paul Auster, The Porcupine by Julian Barnes & other recent novels.


Books

Little Wilson & big God
by George Sim Johnston
A review of Against Religion & Jesus by A. N. Wilson.

Shakespeare as shaman
by C.H. Sisson
A review of Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being by Ted Hughes.

The magic begins
by John Szarkowski
A review of Out of the Shadows by Larry J. Schaaf.

Radical shtick
by James Bowman
A review of Rads by Tom Bates.


Notebook

In memoriam: Howard Nemerov, 1920-1991
by William Spiegelman