The New Criterion
(Mobile Version)

May 1987 Volume 5, Number 9  

Features

The death of Andy Warhol
by Hilton Kramer

The confinement of free verse
by Brad Leithauser

Out of Eden: on Alberto Giacometti
by W. S. Di Piero

Diagnosis of a Kulturkampf
by David Gress
On Allan Bloom's Closing of the American Mind.

Glenway Wescott 1901-1987
by Bruce Bawer


Poems

September garden party
by Jane Kenyon

After the dinner party
by Jane Kenyon

Summer in the suburbs: 6:00 A.M.
by Jane Kenyon

Letter to Alice
by Jane Kenyon

An explanation of the dolby system
by David R. Slavitt

Concentration
by Peter Davison


Art

In Correggio country
by Creighton Gilbert
On The Age of Correggio at the National Gallery.

Was Minimalist art a political movement?
by Eric Gibson


Dance

Rebel without a cause
by Eva Resnikova


Letter from Europe

The profits of subsidy
by Matt Wolf
On Trevor Nunn and Peter Hall.


Books

Sartre resartus
by Roger Kimball
A review of Annie Cohen-Solal's Sartre biography.

Literary landscape
by Leon Edel
A review of The Sixth Continent by Iain Finlayson.

Platonic relationships
by James C. Holt
A review of Acastos by Iris Murdoch.


Letters

Vladimir Nabokov
by Fernanda Eberstadt