The New Criterion
(Mobile Version)

September 1987 Volume 6, Number 1  

Features

Is the symphony orchestra dead?
by Samuel Lipman

Talking heads: the novels of Saul Bellow
by Bruce Bawer

The happy critic: Arthur Danto in “The Nation”
by Hilton Kramer

The academy debates the canon
by Roger Kimball
On Literary Theory & the Curriculum, a symposium at Yale.

Mondrian in theory and practice
by Kermit Champa


Poems

The beds
by Elizabeth Spires

In Rousseau’s jungles
by Michael J. Rosen


Dance

Dutch treat
by Eva Resnikova
On Jiri Kylián’s Netherlands Dance Theater.


Art

The shows must go on
by Jed Perl
On the Whitney Biennial of 1987 & other shows.


Letter from Washington

Booksellers at play
by Martha Bayles
On the American Booksellers Association convention for 1987.


Books

Saving Rupert Brooke
by Gloria G. Fromm
A review of The Neo-Pagans: Rupert Brooke & the Ordeal of Youth by Paul Delany.

The collecting life
by Denys Sutton
A review of The Havemeyers by Frances Weitzenhoffer.

Old, new, buried, blue
by Donna Rifkind
A review of Family Skeletons by Henrietta Garnett.


Notes & Comments

Black Mountain comes to Bard
by Robert Richman
On the symposium Poetry at Black Mountain College.