The New Criterion
(Mobile Version)

May 1993 Volume 11, Number 9  

Notes & Comments

L'Affaire Derrida

Marian Anderson, 1897-1993


Features

Feeling sorry for Rosalind Krauss
by Roger Kimball
On Krauss’s book The Optical Unconscious.

Why should we read Joyce Cary?
by Bruce Bawer

“The Greek Miracle”: Classical sculpture at the met
by Beryl Barr-Sharrar

A defense of translation
by Martin Greenberg


Poems

The Indian student
by Louis Simpson

The poet's pipe
by Louis Simpson

A form of fulfillment
by Greg Williamson


Art

Booked
by Jed Perl
On The American Livre de Peintre at the Grolier Club & other exhibitions of artists’ books.

Exhibition note
by Eric Gibson
On Picasso & the Age of Iron at the Guggenheim Museum.


Theater

Shelley, Shaw & Broadway
by Donald Lyons
On revivals of The Cenci & Candida & other plays.


Music

The strange case of Charles Valentin Alkan
by James Penrose


The Media

Pursuits of happiness
by James Bowman
On The Wall Street Journal’s “No Guardrails” editorial & other matters.


Books

The great awakener
by Marc M. Arkin
A review of Jonathan Edwards by John E. Smith.

Improbable friendship
by Renee Winegarten
A review of Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence.

A vision in terry cloth
by David Klinghoffer
A review of Seaward by Brad Leithauser.

Resentful parasite
by Jeffrey Meyers
A review of Reflections on James Joyce: Stuart Gilbert’s Paris Journal.

The tongue of the Welsh
by Michael Glover
A review of Collected Poems by R. S. Thomas.

Acquaintance of poets
by Robert Richman
A review of Their Ancient Glittering Eyes by Donald Hall.

Shorter notice
by Christopher Carduff
Of Leonard & Virginia Woolf as Publishers by J. H. Willis, Jr.

Shorter notice
by Bruce Bawer
Of Delmore Schwartz & James Laughlin: Selected Letters edited by Robert Phillips.


Letters

Letters
Regarding Clement Greenberg.