The New Criterion
(Mobile Version)

April 1999 Volume 17, Number 8  

Notes & Comments

Product placement
On brand names in textbooks

Deviant child
On the mainstreaming of pornography


Features

History repeating itself: liberalism and foreign policy
by Robert Kagan
The eighth in a series titled The betrayal of liberalism

“No other book”: Randall Jarrell's criticism
by Brad Leithauser

Eça de Queirós
by Alexander Coleman
On the influential Portuguese novelist

Max Beckmann & the school in Paris
by Karen Wilkin
Review of Beckmann and Paris, at the Saint Louis Art Museum


Poems

Three prayers of Telémakhos
by William Coleman


Theater

No business like show business
by Mark Steyn
Review of Annie Get Your Gun


Art

An observer of charms & hurts: Dosso of Ferrara
by Creighton Gilbert
On Dosso Dossi, Court Painter in Renaissance Ferrara


The Media

The women come & go
by James Bowman
On self-concept in the media


Fiction Chronicle

Illustrations of inertia & compromise
by Brooke Allen
Reviews of Amsterdam by Ian McEwan, The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden & Charlotte Gray: A Novel by Sebastian Faulks


Books

New prose for old
by Joseph Epstein
On The New Oxford English Book of Prose, edited by John Gross

Prosody atrocities
by Robert Richman
Review of All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and Versification by Timothy Steele

Bunk & braggadocio
by Ben Downing
On Lord Byron's Jackal by David Crane

Book notes
by Christopher Carduff
On The Way of the World: From the Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the Twenty-first Century by David Fromkin, Under Gemini by Isabel Bolton & Zarafa by Michael Allen


Notebook

Repeating the old lies
by Jeffrey Meyers
On conflicting accounts of the Spanish Civil War