The New Criterion
(Mobile Version)

May 1989 Volume 7, Number 9  

Features

Art, anarchism & Félix Fénéon
by Hilton Kramer

The year that changed everything: 1968
by David Gress


Music

Toscanini and the love of great music
by Samuel Lipman
On Understanding Toscanini by Joseph Horowitz.


Features

States of grace: the novels of William Maxwell
by Bruce Bawer

The “ecstasy” of Jean Baudrillard
by Richard Vine


Poems

As birds reviving from the cold will sing
by Peter Sacks

The lake
by Maria Flook

Elegy at summer’s end
by Joe Bolton

On a woman of spirit who taught both piano and dance
by Donald Justice


Art

How simple everything could be!
by Jed Perl
On The Pastoral Landscape: The Legacy of Venice & the Modern Vision at the Phillips Collection & the National Gallery.

Looking at Warhol
by Eric Gibson

The figurative Fifties
by Dan Hofstadter


Books

Is modernism the enemy? The case of Mies van der Rohe
by Roger Kimball
A review of Architects of Fortune: Mies van der Rohe & the Third Reich by Elaine S. Hochman.

Remembering India
by David Pryce-Jones
A review of Thy Hand, Great Anarch! by Nirad C. Chaudhuri.

Games computers play
by David Gurevich
A review of Hence by Brad Leithauser.


Notebook

How not to speak for the humanities
by D.G. Myers
On the pamphlet Speaking for the Humanities by George Levine for the American Council of Learned Societies.