The New Criterion
(Mobile Version)

February 1996 Volume 14, Number 6  

Notes & Comments

A sign of the times

And down in New Haven


Features

Nora Sayre: a progressive 'Journey'
by Hilton Kramer

The qualities of Robert Musil
by Roger Kimball

Vermeer in Washington
by Karen Wilkin

The hunter Gracchus
by Guy Davenport


Poems

Emily's courtship
by Robert McDowell

Vandalism
by Judith Baumel


Theater

Death of the author
by Mark Steyn


Dance

Mark Morris at BAM
by Laura Jacobs


Art

Christopher Wilmarth
by Mario Naves


Music

Janacek & the Norman Conquest
by John Simon

Two extraordinary pianists
by James Penrose


The Media

Smoke gets in your eyes
by James Bowman


Books

The body politic
by Richard Selzer

Canned laughs
by Mark Steyn

Old stories & new
by Robert Richman