The New Criterion
(Mobile Version)

February 1987 Volume 5, Number 6  

Features

The lowdown on Richard Gilman
by Hilton Kramer

Matisse: into the Twenties
by Jed Perl

“The Common Pursuit” in New York
by James Atlas
A review of Simon Gray’s play.

Martin Amis on America
by Bruce Bawer
A review of The Moronic Inferno by Martin Amis.

The future of Times Square: the Portman portent
by Susan Woldenberg


Poems

Opera
by Herbert Morris


Design

The Machine Age revisited
by William H. Jordy


Dance

Grow old along with me!
by Eva Resnikova
On David Gordon and the Pick Up Company.


Art

Homer and Sargent: Yankee honesty vs. cosmopolitan flair
by Eric Gibson


Books

The golden boy of Surrealism
by Renee Winegarten
On René Crevel.

Frank Stella’s crisis
by Tim Hilton
A review of Working Space by Frank Stella.

Impatient faith
by Robert Richman
A review of Daily Horoscope

Keeping the Sabbath
by Donna Rifkind
A review of Chaim Grade’s My Mother’s Sabbath Days, translated by Channa Kleinerman Goldstein and Inna Hecker Grade.


Notebook

Kitchen video culture
by Michael Brandow


Letters

Translating Montale
by William Jay Smith

The Cone sisters
by Margaret Scolari Barr