The New Criterion
(Mobile Version)

May 1996 Volume 14, Number 9  

Notes & Comments

"Redbaiting" reconsidered
On Gary Wills's & Nicholas von Hoffman's recent articles on American Communism


Features

''Diversity,'' ''cultural studies'' & other mistakes
by Roger Kimball
On the science wars & other matters

"The Innocents Abroad" or the new pilgrim's progress
by Mordecai Richler

The drop too much: Emerson's eccentric circle
by James Tuttleton

Death fugues: the poems of Paul Celan
by John Simon


Poems

Lily in autumn
by William Jay Smith

Prayer for our daughters
by Mark Jarman

Viollet-le-Duc
by David Gelernter


Theater

"Rent" subsidy
by Mark Steyn


Art

Between Paris & the shtetl: Marc Chagall at the Jewish Museum
by Mario Naves


Music

New performances of Schumann
by James Penrose


The Media

Some heroes of our time
by James Bowman


Fiction Chronicle

Intellects & addicts
by Brooke Allen


Books

What the devil said
by Tess Lewis

Cooper & son
by Richard Brookhiser

A minor Augustan
by Donald Lyons

Luminous particulars
by Robert Richman