The New Criterion
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April 1997 Volume 15, Number 8  

Notes & Comments

The Cold War and the closet or, How to review a book The New Yorker wants to kill
On Sidney Blumenthal's review of Whittaker Chambers: A Biography

Speaking of Sydney Blumenthal...
On the media attack on Radical Son by David Horowitz


Features

Present-tense culture
by Mark Steyn
The eighth in a series on “The future of the European past,”

The age of the émigrés,
by Hilton Kramer
On Exiles & Emigrés: The Flight of European Artists from Hitler at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

The distinguished professor
by Roger Kimball
On Jane Gallop & her book Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment

Edwin Muir's journey
by Robert Richman
On the Scottish poet & his work


Poems

A visit to Manafon
by William Virgil Davis

A truce
by John Clarke

June night
by John Clarke


Art

William de Kooning late paintings
by Mario Naves
On the exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York


Photography

The way Olmsted saw
by Francis Morrone
On Viewing Olmsted: Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander & Geoffrey James at the Equitable Gallery, New York


Music

Juilliard plays Stravinsky
by Alexander Coleman
On the Juilliard Symphony's performance at Alice Tully Hall, New York

The Tallis Scholars in New York
by Charles Doersch
On a performance at St. Ignatius Loyola, New York


The Media

Ken Burns does Jefferson
by James Bowman
On the PBS series Thomas Jefferson directed by Mr. Burns


Books

Recovering Washington
by James Tuttleton
Review of George Washington: Writings edited by John Rhodehamel

Cicerones in a minefield
by Hugh Lloyd-Jones
On The Oxford Classical Dictionary edited by Simon Hornblower & Antony Spawforth

Satyr & family man
by Guy Davenport
Review of Augustus John: The New Biography

Such talents, such a mess
by Jeremy Murray-Brown
Review of Charlie Chaplin & His Times by Kenneth S. Lynn

Shorter notice
by Roger Kimball
On The Paintings of Paul Cézanne: A Catalogue Raisonné by John Rewald

Shorter notice
by Brooke Allen
On The Letters of Nancy Mitford & Evelyn Waugh edited by Charlotte Mosley