The New Criterion
(Mobile Version)

January 1998 Volume 16, Number 5  

Notes & Comments

God Decentralized
On The New York Times Magazine’s special December 7 issue on religion

Privileging the contemporary
On the expansion of the Museum of Modern Art, New York


Features

The liberal capitulation
by Roger Kimball
Being the fifth in a series titled“Reflections on a cultural revolution,”

Telling lies about history: “The Fifties” on television
by Hilton Kramer
On the series directed by Alex Gibney & Tracy Dahlby, based on the book of the same title by David Halberstam

The destruction of Paris
by Katherine Knorr
On recent developments in Paris architecture & their harmful effects on the city.

Our debts to English history
by Keith Windschuttle
On Hope & Glory: Britain 1900–1990 by Peter Clarke & A Monarchy Transformed: Britain 1603–1714 by Mark Kishlansky, two of the eight volumes in the Penguin History of Britain


Poems

1998
by Harvey Shapiro

Toward an anniversary
by Randy Blasing

Work station
by Richard Tillinghast

One wind
by Steve Kronen


London journal

Europhiles & "Little Englanders"
by Roger Scruton
On English Common Law & the European Union


Theater

Luvvies' Labor lost
by Mark Steyn
On the Labor government’s cuts to theater funding


Art

Richard Diebenkorn at the Whitney
by Mario Naves

Exhibition notes
by Karen Wilkin
On Ten Paintings by Paul Cézanne Formerly in the Auguste Pellerine Collection at Sotheby’s, New York

Exhibition note
by Hilton Kramer
On Stanley Spencer: An English Vision at the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.


Music

Chicago's new sound
by Lawrence Johnson
On the opening concert at Chicago’s Symphony Center

Concert note
by David Mermelstein
On Pelléas et Mélisande by Claude Debussy at the War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco

Concert note
by James Penrose


The Media

Flipping our Whigs
by James Bowman
On “The Fifties,” The Kennedy Center Honors &Paul Simon’s Capeman


Books

Horace transplanted
by D.S. Carne-Ross
Review of The Odes of Horace translated by David Ferry

Back in the loop
by Francis Morrone
Review of The Architects & the City: Holabird & Roche of Chicago by Robert Bruegmann

The irony of it all
by Marc Arkin
Review of Modern American Religion by Martin M. Marty

Abiding questions
by Paul Dean
Review of The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets by Helen Vendler & Shakespeare’s Sonnets edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones


Notebook

Peddler's diary
by Mordecai Richler
On the author’s recent book tour