The New Criterion
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March 1986 Volume 4, Number 7  

Features

Modernism and its enemies
by Hilton Kramer
On Fredric Jameson, Roger Starr, Daniel Bell et al.

Politics, politics, politics — the PEN Congress in New York
by Roger Kimball

The Saatchi Collection, or, a generation comes into focus
by Sanford Schwartz


Poems

The barrel organ
by Daniel Mark Epstein
From “Homage to Mallarmé”.

Old times
by Daniel Mark Epstein
From “Homage to Mallarmé”.

Piano lessons: a memoir of the Thirties
by Donald Justice


Art

Hayter’s line & Golub’s message
by Jed Perl


Theater

Aunt Dan and Wally
by Mimi Kramer
On Wallace Shawn’s Aunt Dan & Lemon.


Music

A great Spanish pianist
by Samuel Lipman
On Ricardo Viñes.


Books

Getting Stoned
by Bruce Bawer
A review of Children of Light by Robert Stone.

“A singular institution”
by Sonya Rudikoff
A review of Enlarging the Change by Robert Fitzgerald.

Access to the past
by Donna Rifkind
A review of Gentlemen in England by A. N. Wilson.


Letters

Marxism, Princeton & Lawrence Stone