The New Criterion
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September 1986 Volume 5, Number 1  

Features

Anti-Communism and the Sontag circle
by Hilton Kramer

Killing moonlight: the Futurists in Venice
by W. S. Di Piero
On Futurismo & Futurismi at the Palazzo Grassi.

Becoming Elias Canetti
by Roger Kimball

Frits Lugt: a life in looking
by Creighton Gilbert

Salinger’s arrested development
by Bruce Bawer


Poems

Water music
by John Frederick Nims


Art

The School of Paris revisited
by Jed Perl


Music

The pupils of Clara Schumann and the uses of tradition
by Samuel Lipman


Theater

Beyond method acting
by Mimi Kramer
On the Jonathan Miller Long Day’s Journey into Night & other matters.


Books

The obsessions of Marguerite Duras
by Fernanda Eberstadt
A review of The Malady of Death, The Lover & The War by Marguerite Duras.

Unlike everyone else
by Robert Richman
A review of Less Than One by Joseph Brodsky.

Searching for Dorothy Parker
by Donna Rifkind
A review of The Late Mrs. Dorothy Parker by Leslie Frewin.


Letters

Richard Serra

The Boucher exhibition