The New Criterion
(Mobile Version)

February 1983 Volume 1, Number 6  

Features

Pop goes the critic
by Frederick Crews

Mark Rothko and the Rothko case: notes, memories, observations
by John Bernard Myers

The small, battered desk (The writer’s role: responses to Hortense Calisher’s “The Long, Shining Table”)
by Stanislaw Baranczak

Alone with the page (The writer’s role: responses to Hortense Calisher’s “The Long, Shining Table”)
by William Barrett

Against prophets with honor (The writer’s role: responses to Hortense Calisher’s “The Long, Shining Table”)
by Cynthia Ozick

At a certain remove (The writer’s role: responses to Hortense Calisher’s “The Long, Shining Table”)
by Richard Wilbur

Replies to Stanislaw Baranczak, William Barrett, Cynthia Ozick & Richard Wilbur (The writer’s role: responses to Hortense Calisher’s “The Long, Shining Table”)
by Hortense Calisher


Music

Wagner: writing the wrongs
by Philip Winters


Art

Looking at Braque
by William C. Agee


Books

Music in Naziland
by Dana Mack
A review of Musik im NS-Staat by Fred K. Prieberg.

Mann revealed
by Arthur A. Cohen
A review of Thomas Mann Diaries: 1918–1939.

Photographs and history
by Gail Buckland
A review of The History of Photography from 1839 to the Present by Beaumont Newhall.


Fiction Chronicle

Less is less
by Joshua Gilder
On the American short story circa 1983.


Notebook

What was Vanity Fair?
by Deborah Trustman

Among the philosophers
by Mark Lilla
On the meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Baltimore.