The New Criterion
(Mobile Version)

January 2000 Volume 18, Number 5  

Notes & Comments

Postscript to "sensation"
On Sensation: Young British Artists From the Saatchi Collection

Patterns of pedagogic abuse
On recent scandals in public education


Features

The perils of activism: Ken Saro-Wiwa
by Anthony Daniels

Willa Cather's "The Professor's House"
by Donald Lyons

A great, baggy monster: Rilke's Duino Elegies
by John Simon

The Saint-Saëns enigma
by R. J. Stove


Poems

Swans
by William Logan

Samphire
by William Logan

Deceit
by William Logan

The river
by William Logan


Theater

Stephen, Edna & the sheikh
by Mark Steyn
On Putting it Together, Dame Edna's Royal Tour & Corpus Christi


Art

Rethinking modernism
by Karen Wilkin
On Modernstarts: People, Places, Things, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York

Exhibition notes
by Mario Naves
Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth Century at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

Exhibition notes
by Daniel Kunitz
On Naum Gabo: Pioneer of Abstract Sculpture at PaceWildenstein, New York

Exhibition notes
by Daniel Kunitz
On Milton Avery: Edge of Abstraction, at Knoedler & Company, New York


Music

Small encomia
by Jay Nordlinger
On recent performances by Mitsuko Uchida, Emanuel Ax & Evgeny Kissin

Opera note
by Lawrence Johnson
On A View from the Bridge by William Bolcom at the Lyric Opera of Chicago


The Media

Superior soap opera
by James Bowman
On The Sopranos


Books

Howard's rendering
by Martin Greenberg
Review of Richard Howard's translation of Stendhal's The Charterhouse of Parma

Choreographed artifice
by Merlin James
Review of Balthus: A Biography by Nicholas Fox Weber

Emotional vampire
by Brooke Allen
Review of Illumination & Night Glare: The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers

Seeing is revealing
by Paul Dean
Review of The Bible and Its Rewritings by Piero Boitani

Without dogma
by Paula Friedman
Review of Reputation of the Tongue by William Logan