The New Criterion
(Mobile Version)

October 1999 Volume 18, Number 2  

Notes & Comments

Boycott the SAT
On affirmative action and the Educational Testing Service

PBS &hearts DNC
On the political neutrality of Public Broadcasting


Features

Remembering Milovan Djilas
by David Pryce-Jones
On the Yugoslav anti-Communist

Abstraction in America: the first generation
by Hilton Kramer
On Marsden Hartley and Arthur Dove

A craving for reality: T.S. Eliot today
by Roger Kimball
On Eliot's reputation & influence

Women & politics: Madame Roland
by Renee Winegarten

A universal region: the fiction of Eudora Welty
by Brooke Allen
Upon the publication of the Library of America edition


Poems

The New Parnassians
by Ben Downing

The Civil Wars
by Ben Downing

Tempocide
by Ben Downing

Untitled
by Paul Kane


London journal

Stunts & consequences
by John Gross
An update on the culture wars in Britain


Theater

Transatlantic notes
by Mark Steyn
British theater in New York & London


The Media

Stupidity at work
by James Bowman
On censorship, Francine Prose & Jedediah Purdy


Books

Puritans & destiny
by Keith Windschuttle
Review of The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America

A tragic figure
by E.V. Thaw
Review of From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky

Saturated with the word
by Marc Arkin
Review of American Sermons: The Pilgrims to Martin Luther King, Jr., edited by Michael Warner

Poseur poser
by Stephen Schwartz
Reviews of Shadows, Fire, Snow: The Life of Tina Modotti by Clarkson N. Potter & Tina Modotti: A Life by Pino Cacucci

The conquering zero
by John Derbyshire
Review of The Nothing That Is by Robert Kaplan


Notebook

The triumph of Nirad Chaudhuri
by Christopher Carduff