The New Criterion
(Mobile Version)

November 1996 Volume 15, Number 3  

Notes & Comments

Legislating history
On Governor Pataki's legislation regulating the teaching of the Irish Potato Famine as deliberately caused by the British

Nothing sacred
On Andres Serrano's jacket art for the reissue of Richmond Lattimore's translation of the New Testament

''The eclipse of listening''
On Roger Scruton's essay in “The future of the European past” series


Features

The eclipse of listening
by Roger Scruton
The third in a series on “The future of the European past,”

David Denby goes to school
by Roger Kimball
On Great Books by David Denby

Degas in Chicago
by Hilton Kramer
On Degas: Beyond Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago

La Tour in Washington
by Karen Wilkin
On an exhibition of the artist's work at the National Gallery of Art, Washington


Poems

Etude on a music stand
by Wyatt Prunty

Night squall
by David Mason

Ferns
by Dick Allen


Theater

Politics & the "Pinteresque"
by Mark Steyn
On Ashes to Ashes & other plays


Art

Portraits & spells: the mad genius of Antonin Artaud
by John Simon
On an exhibition of Artaud's artwork at the Museum of Modern Art, New York

Later visions: “Giorgio de Chirico & America,”
by Mario Naves
On the exhibition at the Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, New York


The Media

The spin election
by James Bowman
On the presidential debates


Fiction Chronicle

Scheherazade's exhaustion
by Brooke Allen
On with the Story by John Barth, After Rain by William Trevor & The Night in Question by Tobias Wolff


Books

Losing Virgil
by John Herington
Review of Virgil in English edited by K. W. Gransden

John Gray's big idea
by Daniel Silver
Review of Isaiah Berlin by John Gray

Author? Author?
by Paul Dean
On Shakespeare's “Edward III” edited by Eric Sams

Semper fidelis
by J. Duncan Berry
Review of Gottfried Semper: Architect of the Nineteenth Century by Harry Francis Mallgrave


Notebook

Dumas “fils”
by Louis Auchincloss