The New Criterion
(Mobile Version)

January 1993 Volume 11, Number 5  

Notes & Comments

Ms. Cheney's departure

Lincoln Center (continued)


Features

Mary McCarthy & company
by Hilton Kramer
On Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy & Her World by Carol Brightman.

Heroic failures: the “Malcolm X” phenomenon
by James Bowman

What Henry James knew
by Cynthia Ozick

A transparent world: the notebooks of Paul Klee
by Deborah Rosenthal


Poems

Bridal Veil Falls, early winter
by Leslie Norris

Cousins, brothers, sisters
by Wyatt Prunty

The world of light
by Michael Hefferman

Bright leaf
by Andrew Hudgins

Dog pile
by Andrew Hudgins


Art

An American in Paris
by Jed Perl
On Ellsworth Kelly: The Years in France, 1948-1954 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.

Exhibition note
by Karen Wilkin
On Masterworks from the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Exhibition note
by Eric Gibson
On Kandinsky & the American Avant-Garde, 1912-1950 at the Dayton Art Institute.

Exhibition note
by Roger Kimball
On Egypt's Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III & His World" at the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth.


Theater

Doing it wrong
by Donald Lyons
On the National Actors Theatre production of The Seagull & other plays.


Reconsiderations

You don't say
by Terry Teachout
On Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities five years later.


Books

Flights of the enchanter
by Jenny Teichman
On Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals by Iris Murdoch.

He said, she said
by John Simon
A review of The New York Public Library Book of 20th-Century American Quotations & The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 4th Edition.

Scrappy days
by Thomas Mallon
A review of My Life as Author & Editor by H.L. Mencken.


Notebook

Music “Behind the Scenes”
by Samuel Lipman