The New Criterion
(Mobile Version)

May 1997 Volume 15, Number 9  

Notes & Comments

A baneful influence
On the death of Allen Ginsberg

PEN's iron curtain
ON PEN's refusal to release materials to Susan Sontag's biographer (Carl Rollyson)


Features

The postmodern assault
by Hilton Kramer
Being the ninth in a series on “The future of the European past,”

C.J. Herington: an homage
by Roger Kimball

Revisionist lust: the Smithsonian today
by Heather Mac Donald


Letter from Moscow

Letter from Moscow
by Christian Caryl
On Russia's present culture & troubles


Poems

The legend
by John Haines


Theater

Stonewall Jackson slept here
by Mark Steyn
On Stonewall Jackson's House & Play On!


Art

The Glory of Byzantium at the Met
by Karen Wilkin

A daughter of Dada: Hannah Höch at MOMA
by Mario Naves


Dance

Misha: impossible
by Laura Jacobs
On Mikhail Baryshnikov & White Oak Dance Project at BAM


The Media

Religion or merely kooky?
by James Bowman
On the reporting of the Heaven's Gate suicides


Nonfiction Chronicle

Devouring love
by Brooke Allen
On The Kiss by Kathyrn Harrison, The Shadow Man by Mary Gordon & The Architect of Desire by Suzannah Lessard


Books

Against the old clichés,
by Anne Applebaum
Review of Europe: A History by Norman Davies

Idylls of old Newark
by James Tuttleton
Review of American Pastoral by Philip Roth

Mr. Warren's profession
by Richard Tillinghast
Review of Robert Penn Warren by Joseph Blotner

Empson's only heir?
by Paul Dean
Review of Essays in Appreciation by Christopher Ricks