The New Criterion
(Mobile Version)

October 1995 Volume 14, Number 2  

Notes & Comments

Bowdlerizing the Bible


Features

Mondrian & mysticism
by Hilton Kramer
On “Piet Mondrian: 1872–1944” seen first at the Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague (December 18, 1994–April 30, 1995), then at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (June 11–September 4, 1995) and on view at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, from October 1, 1995, through January 23, 1996.

Duchamp & his legacy
by Hilton Kramer
On The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp by Jerrold Seigel.

Mr. Dennett's dangerous idea
by Phillip E. Johnson
On Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life by Daniel C. Dennett.

The sensational Miss Alcott
by James Tuttleton
On Louisa May Alcott's sensational novels.

Peabody's Athenauem
by Daniel Mark Epstein
On Baltimore's George Peabody Library.

Imperial Berlin revisited
by William Jay Smith
On cultural memory in modern Germany.


Poems

Rain
by Frederick Morgan

Nothing
by Frederick Morgan

Elegy
by William Logan

Swans
by Charles Tomlinson


Theater

Art & tyranny in London
by Mark Steyn
On The Hothouse at the Chichester Festival Theatre, Taking Sides at the Criterion, Zenobia at the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Communicatin Doors at the Gielgud.


Art

The native & the new
by Mario Naves
On “Affinities and Influences: Native American Art and American Modernism”, on view at the Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey.


Music

Paul Hindemith: a centenary cenotaph
by John Simon
On Paul Hindemith's Mathis der Maler at New York City Opera.


The Media

Taking the Nineteenth
by James Bowman
On the blinkered outlook of modern feminists.


Fiction Chronicle

Introverts and émigrés
by Brooke Allen
On The Collected Stories of Evan S. Connell and The Stories of Vladimir Nabakov edited by Dmitri Nabakov.


Books

Feminist fatale
by Christina Hoff Sommers

Sutherland rides again
by Louis Auchincloss

Kingdom & exile
by Renee Winegarten

Quintessence of Quine
by Jenny Teichman


Notebook

In memoriam: Edward Shils, 1910-1995
by H.R. Trebor-Roper
In memoriam: Edward Shils, 1910-1995