The New Criterion
(Mobile Version)

March 1996 Volume 14, Number 7  

Notes & Comments

Steinerisms revisited

Marketing multiculturalism


Features

Abstraction at the Guggenheim
by Hilton Kramer

An update on the culture wars
by Roger Kimball

Adam Smith, the sensible philosopher
by David Frum

No Greek & very little Latin: Classical verse in translation
by D.S. Carne-Ross


Poems

The 440
by Donald Hall

Letter to A.D. Hope
by Timothy Murphy

Verse
by Charles Tomlinson


Letter from Paris

Andreï Makine's poetics of nostalgia
by Katherine Knorr


Theater

Defects trumpeted as virtues
by Mark Steyn


Art

Paris as haven: 'Explorations in the City of Light'
by Mario Naves

Exhibition note
by Beryl Barr-Sharrar
On 'Pergamon: The Telephos Frieze from the Great Altar' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Exhibition note
by Roger Kimball
On Poussin: Works on Paper, Drawings from the Collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York


The Media

The press's naïve cynicism
by James Bowman


Books

Stealing history
by Donald Kagan

Sound & fury
by Brooke Allen

Paterfamilias
by Harvey Mansfield

Testament & will
by X.J. Kennedy

Shorter notice
by J. Duncan Berry
On The Villas of Pliny from Antiquity to Posterity by Pierre de la Rufinière du Prey

Shorter notice
by Ben Downing
On The Alphabetic Labyrinth: The Letters in History & Imagination by Johanna Drucker


Notebook

Tom: the making of 'The Glass Menagerie'
by William Jay Smith


Books

Gallumphing Back
by Guy Davenport
A review of Lewis Carroll: A Biography by Morton N. Cohen.