The New Criterion
(Mobile Version)

March 1997 Volume 15, Number 7  

Notes & Comments

The bureaucratic superhighway
On computer literacy & education

Accentuating the negative
On an article in the London Sunday Times on vicars who can't remember the Ten Commandments


Features

The real stuff of history
by Keith Windschuttle
The seventh in a series on The future of the European past

Elegance in mourning: George Braque in London
by Hilton Kramer
On the show of late works at the Royal Academy of Arts

Who was David Stove?
by Roger Kimball
On the Australian philosopher & his work

Spanish notebook
by Renee Winegarten
On the arts in post-Franco Spain


Poems

Two poems by Léon-Paul Fargue
by Louis Simpson
Translated by and with an introduction from Louis Simpson


Letter from Berlin

German farewells
by Christian Caryl
On the current German self-image & cinema


Theater

A lose-lose proposition
by Mark Steyn
On the August Wilson/Robert Brustein debate


Art

Giambattista Tiepolo at the Met
by Karen Wilkin

Romare Bearden at the Whitney
by Mario Naves


The Media

Lionizing the networks
by James Bowman
On ABC's coverage of the Food Lion story


Books

Thoroughly Modern Burchfield
by John Simon
Review of The New Fowler's Modern English Usage edited by R. W. Burchfield

Brilliantly frivolous
by Brooke Allen
Review of Diaries. Volume I: 1939-1960 by Christopher Isherwood

Not so innocent eyes
by William Logan
Review of Exchanging Hats: Paintings by Elizabeth Bishop

Shorter notice
by Louis Galdieri
On The Odyssey translated by Robert Fagles

Shorter notice
by David Yezzi
On Ibsen's Brand, translated by Geoffrey Hill