The New Criterion
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December 1997 Volume 16, Number 4  

Notes & Comments

Intellectual frontiers
Roger Bowen & The New York Times defend SUNY's Revolting Behavior & Subject to Desire conferences

Meanwhile, back at Yale . . .
More about the Bass grant & Western culture at Yale


Features

The marriage of Marx and Freud
by Roger Kimball
The fourth in a series titled Reflections on a cultural revolution

The blacklist as history
by Ron Radosh
On the fiftieth anniversary of the Hollywood blacklist

Nabokov in America
by Donald Lyons
On the three-volume Vladimir Nabokov published by the Library of America

Egon Schiele at MOMA
by Karen Wilkin


Poems

Brilliant
by Jessica Hornik

Mule
by Jonathan Musgrove

Broadcast
by Jonathan Musgrove


Theater

Muddled "marivaudage"
by Mark Steyn
On The Triumph of Love & other plays


Art

Persevering in paint: Steve Wheeler & Thomas Nozkowski
by Mario Naves


Dance

Computer games: Merce Cunningham at BAM
by Laura Jacobs


Music

Kurt Masur conducts Brahms
by James Penrose

Music note
by John Simon
On Opera & Politics: From Monteverdi to Menze by John Bokina

Music note
by David Mermelstein
On Manon by Jules Massenet, at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York


The Media

The morality of the wasteland
by James Bowman
On Ellen DeGeneres & the television as a perceived instrument of moral influence


Fiction Chronicle

Violating the cardinal rules
by Brooke Allen
Review of Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology edited by Paula Geyh, Fred G. Leebron & Andrew Levy


Books

Blasts from the past
by James Wolcott
Review of Underworld by Don DeLillo

Substitutes for truth
by Jenny Teichman
Review of Belief & Resistance: Dynamics of Contemporary Intellectual Controversy by Barbara Herrnstein Smith

Postwar solipsisms
by Tess Lewis
Reviews of The Reader by Bernhard Schlink, translated by Caro Brown Janeway & Last Trolley from Beethovenstraat by Grete Weil, translated by John Barret


Notebook

Letter from London: Charles Saatchi's YBAs
by David Cohen
On Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection at the Royal Academy of Arts, London