The New Criterion
(Mobile Version)

November 1991 Volume 10, Number 3  

Notes & Comments

The academic Left strikes back

Art and politics, “Klinghoffer”-style


Features

An Orwell for the Nineties?
by Hilton Kramer

New light on Corot
by Karen Wilkin

The career of James Baldwin
by Bruce Bawer

A very Sixties person: Peter Schjeldahl on art
by Roger Kimball

Hazlitt's passions
by Joseph Epstein

Crime and punishment
by Leszek Kolakowski


Poems

from Bringing in the Selves
by Leslie Norris

Working out
by Louis Simpson

Red roses
by W. S. Di Piero


Letters

Visual culture
by Jed Perl


Art

Remaking Bearden
by Eric Gibson


Books

A lot of Fussell about nothing
by James Bowman
A review of BAD, or, The Dumbing of America by Paul Fussell.

The humanists reassessed
by Paul Oskar Kristeller
A review of Defenders of the Text by Anthony Grafton.

A poet and particularist
by Tess Lewis
A review of On the Look-out by C.H. Sisson.

Shorter notice
by Donald Lyons
On John Bossy's account of Giordano Bruno.

Shorter notice
by Bruce Bawer
On the journals of John Cheever.


Notebook

Leland Bell, 1922-1991
by Jed Perl