The New Criterion
(Mobile Version)

January 1988 Volume 6, Number 5  

Features

Leaving the Party: the politics of Sterling Hayden
by Scott McConnell

A liberated woman
by Terry Teachout
On Rebecca West: A Life by Victoria Glendinning.

O’Keeffe in the capital
by Jed Perl

Wordsworth on Forty-second Street
by Bruce Bawer
On William Wordsworth & the Age of English Romanticism at the New York Public Library.

Special effects, special pleading
by Martha Bayles
On Beloved & earlier novels by Toni Morrison.


Poems

Annonciade
by Elizabeth Spires


Dance

Thanks for the memory: “Le Sacre” at the Joffrey
by Eva Resnikova


Art

Stuart Davis in his own time
by Karen Wilkin

Nadelman’s world
by Eric Gibson


Books

Brancusi, Brancusi
by Sidney Geist
A review of Brancusi by Radu Varia & Brancusi by Pontus Hultén, et al.

In the nature of the architect
by Thomas Hines
A review of Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright by Brendan Gill.

Death and the poet
by Robert Richman
A review of War Stories by Howard Nemerov.


Letters

Morality tales

Pollock and company
by Jed Perl

The academy vs. the canon