The New Criterion
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September 1996 Volume 15, Number 1  

Notes & Comments

Judgment is forced upon us by experience
On the fifteenth anniversary of The New Criterion

Poetry & tradition
On poetry & poetry criticism in The New Criterion

The future of the European past
On the inauguration of a series of articles concerning the future of Europe's history & culture


Features

Ancient ghosts stir
by David Pryce-Jones
The first in a series on “The future of the European past,”

Reflections on the history of “Partisan Review”
by Hilton Kramer
On A Partisan Century: Political Writings from Partisan Review edited by Edith Kurzweil

The killing of History: why relativism is wrong
by Roger Kimball
On The Killing of History by Keith Windschuttle

Mistaken identities
by John O'Sullivan
On the politics of identity

The multicultural Muse
by John Simon
On The Best American Poetry 1996 edited by Adrienne Rich

Women & politics: Madame de Genlis
by Renee Winegarten
On the career of the writer, teacher & activist

Mark Twain: more “tears and flapdoodle”
by James Tuttleton
On Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Comprehensive Edition

The drawing room comedy of Iris Murdoch
by Brooke Allen
On the author's work & a new novel, Jackson's Dilemma

Homer, Hopper & the critics
by Michael J. Lewis
On recent exhibitions of these artists' work & Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography by Gail Levin


Poems

Two poems by Jules Laforgue
by Louis Simpson

The return
by Frederick Morgan

In transit
by Frederick Morgan

The clock
by Frederick Morgan

The Traveler's calendar
by Daniel Mark Epstein

Equinox at Newport Farms
by Daniel Mark Epstein

“In heaven it is always autumn”
by Elizabeth Spires


Theater

The imposture of Martin Guerre
by Mark Steyn
On Martin Guerre & other plays


Art

“The realest thing I had ever done”: Andrew Forge in New Haven
by Karen Wilkin
On a retrospective of the artist's work at the Yale Center for British Art

Is there Meret beyond the teacup?
by Mario Naves
On Meret Oppenheim at the Guggenheim Museum, New York


Dance

Figures in the carpet
by Laura Jacobs
On the state of the arabesque in recent dance


The Media

Joe Klein's tangled web
by James Bowman
On Primary Colors & subsequent controversies


Books

Recasting virtue
by Hadley Arkes
Review of Machiavelli's Virtue by Harvey C. Mansfield

Empedocles at Dover
by Paul Dean
Review of A Life of Matthew Arnold by Nicholas Murray

Expert testimony?
by Marc M. Arkin
Review of Law's Stories: Narrative & Rhetoric in the Law edited by Peter Brooks & Paul Gewirtz

Pevsner's paradox
by J. Duncan Berry
Review of Building Paris: Architectural Institutions & the Transformation of the French Capital, 1830-1870 by David Van Zanten

The terrible teens
by Diana West
Review of Teenagers: An American History by Grace Palladino

Shorter notice
by Donald Lyons
On A Greek-English Lexicon. Ninth Edition, with a Revised Supplement, 1996 compiled by Henry George Liddell & Robert Scott

Shorter notice
by Daniel Kunitz
Review of Dylan Thomas: His Life & Work by John Ackerman


Notebook

George Mackay Brown, 1921-1996
by Robert Richman
On the life & work of the Scottish poet