The New Criterion
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November 1983 Volume 2, Number 3  

Features

Criticism endowed: reflections on a debacle
by Hilton Kramer
On the NEA fellowships for art critics.

Marriage and morals among the Victorians
by Gertrude Himmelfarb

Who is Gabriel Fielding?
by Frances Taliaferro

Zola: the father’s tale
by Frederick Brown

An apparition of the Villa Doria Pamphili
by Mark Helprin

Herman Melville
by Walker Percy


Art

Art and urbanity: the Manet retrospective
by Jed Perl


Theater

'morning, Marsha
by Mimi Kramer
On Marsha Norman’s ’night, Mother.


Books

The other Mahler
by Samuel Lipman

Two poets
by Robert Richman
A review of The Kingfisher by Amy Clampitt & The Sacrifice by Frank Bidart.

A naked Wolfe
by Bruce Bawer
A review of The Autobiography of an American Novelist by Thomas Wolfe.

Do letters kill?
by Tom Paulin
A review of A Colder Eye: The Modern Irish Writers by Hugh Kenner.


Fiction Chronicle

Will Raymond Carver please be quiet, please?
by Erich Eichman
On Cathedral by Raymond Carver.


Letters

Fairfield Porter

Flaubert

Malcolm Morley