The New Criterion
(Mobile Version)

September 1999 Volume 18, Number 1  

Notes & Comments

The Pew's five-year plan for bureaucratizing the arts

Mega-museum vs. art museum


Features

Literary victimhood
by Anthony Daniels
Regarding victimhood and its literary cachet

Letters by Dawn Powell to Edmund Wilson
by Tim Page
Introduction by Tim Page; an excerpt from Selected Letters of Dawn Powell

Tchaikovsky at the millennium
by Laura Jacobs
On performances of Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty

Derek Mahon: exile & stranger
by Richard Tillinghast


Poems

Moses
by David Slavitt

Those who stay
by Neil Azevedo

Marco Polo
by Neil Azevedo


Theater

Desensitized beyond belief
by Mark Steyn
On Neil LaBute's Bash: Latter-Day Plays


Art

Sculpture in the Tuileries
by Karen Wilkin
On the sculpture installation in the Tuileries

Summer in the city's museums
by Mario Naves

Exhibition note
by Roger Kimball
On George Stubbs in the collection of Paul Mellon, at the Yale Center for British Art


Music

Valhalla by the Bay
by David Mermelstein
On Wagner's Ring, at the San Francisco Opera


Books

Supporting the indispensable
by Peter Coleman
Review of Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War by Frances Stonor Saunders

Oh, to be in England
by Brooke Allen
Review of Anglomania by Ian Buruma

Nubile savage
by Jeffrey Meyers
Review of True at First Light: A Fictional Memoir

Multicultural mishmash
by William Jay Smith
Review of The New Oxford Book of Children's Verse, edited by Neil Philip


Notebook

Sub specie aeternitatis: J.F. Powers 1917-1999
by John Derbyshire