The New Criterion
(Mobile Version)

May 1998 Volume 16, Number 9  

Notes & Comments

The Dodo's revenge
On the Pulitzer Prizes

The Hudson Review at 50

Modern Painters R.I.P.
Comments occasioned by the New York issue of Modern Painters


Features

The project of rejuvenilization
by Roger Kimball
The ninth in a series titled Reflections on a cultural revolution

The sense of Gertrude Stein
by Donald Lyons
On the two-volume Gertrude Stein published by the Library of America, edited by Catharine R. Stimpson & Harriet Chessman

An early dissident: Madame de Staël
by Renee Winegarten
On the French activist & writer Anne Louise Germaine Necker, Mme. de Staël


Poems

The old burial ground
by William Logan

The disappearance of Saint-Exupéry
by John Foy

Herr X says
by Martin Greenberg
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem with matching translations from Martin Greenberg

From father I get my physique
by Martin Greenberg
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem with matching translation from Martin Greenberg


Theater

Camping up fascism
by Mark Steyn
On Cabaret & other plays


Art

Prud'hon at the Metropolitan
by Karen Wilkin
On Pierre-Paul Prud’hon at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

An ongoing viability
by Mario Naves
On recent exhibitions by Chuck Close & other painters


Music

Alicia de Larrocha at Carnegie Hall
by Alexander Coleman
On a recent performance by the Spanish pianist

Concert note
by David Mermelstein
On the recital by Ian Bostridge at Hertz Hall, Berkeley, California

Concert note
by Lawrence Johnson
On Bryn Terfel, at Symphony Center, Chicago.


The Media

Sorry about that
by James Bowman
On Clinton's “contrition tour”


Fiction Chronicle

Creating a Führer
by Brooke Allen
On The Smithsonian Institution by Gore Vidal & Making History by Stephen Fry


Books

Southern literature reconstructed
by Richard Tillinghast
Review of The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology edited by William L. Andrews et al.

Radical moderation
by Marc Arkin
Review of Beyond All Reason: The Radical Assault on Truth in American Law by Daniel A. Farber & Suzanna Sherry

Proved upon the pulse
by Eric Ormsby
Review of Keats by Andrew Motion


Notebook

Lionel Trilling in the classroom
by Jeffrey Hart