The New Criterion
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February 2000 Volume 18, Number 6  

Notes & Comments

Oh, the poor, innocent child!
On Schools Are Not The Answer, James Traub's New York Times Magazine article

The Smithsonian of sex
On plans for a New York Museum of Sex.


Features

Little god, big Wilson
by Roger Kimball
On God's Funeral by A. N. Wilson

Hazlitt & Wordsworth: the language of poetry
by Martin Greenberg
On Hazlitt's adversarial relationship with Wordsworth.

W. Somerset Maugham: the pleasures of a master
by Anthony Daniels


Poems

Little porch at night
by Gibbons Ruark

Reading David Ferry's poems
by Rachel Hadas

On the other hand
by Rachel Hadas


Letters

Muddling through in Bosnia
by Stephen Schwartz
On the situation in Sarajevo


Theater

Two cheers for the middlebrow
by Mark Steyn
On The Cradle Will Rock & Amadeus


Art

Two views of Caravaggio
by Karen Wilkin

Exhibition notes
by Daniel Kunitz
On Angelo Ippolito: A Selection of Paintings and Works on Paper at the New York Studio School & Alfred H. Maurer: Aestheticism to Modernism at Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York

Exhibition note
by Daniel Kunitz
On Alfred H. Maurer: Aestheticism to Modernism, at Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York


Architecture

Fantasy island
by Francis Morrone
On New York: A Documentary Film, directed by Ric Burns


Music

The great ghastly
by David Mermelstein
On The Great Gatsby, at the Metropolitan Opera

A tale of two prodigies
by Jay Nordlinger
On recent performances by Joshua Bell and Anne-Sophie Mutter


The Media

Against linguistic libertarianism
by James Bowman


Books

He told us so
by David Pryce-Jones
Review of Reflections on a Ravaged Century by Robert Conquest

Clear, affecting, subtle
by Brooke Allen
Review of The Rose Garden by Maeve Brennan

Vast deception
by Paul Hollander
Review of See No Evil: Literary Cover-ups and Discoveries of the Soviet Camp Experience by Dariusz Tolczyk