The New Criterion
(Mobile Version)

October 2000 Volume 19, Number 2  

Notes & Comments

False advertising

A worthy enterprise

Does race exist?


Features

The genius of Wodehouse
by Roger Kimball
A consideration of the author, occasioned the commencement of the publication of the first uniform series of Wodehouse books.

Proust regained
by Daniel Mark Epstein
A consideration of the life and work of Marcel Proust.

The Marianne Mynah: the myth of Marianne Moore
by William Jay Smith

Successes just missed: the career of Hector Berloiz
by James Penrose


Poems

Phryne
by Robert Conquest

Chalet
by Robert Conquest

In the act
by Robert Conquest


Letters

A certain exhaustion
by Stephen Schwartz


Theater

Go and Spoon no more
by Mark Steyn
On Where Everything is Everything, by Stephen Spoonamore; The Two Noble Kinsmen, by John Fletcher & William Shakespeare & A Busy Day, by Fanny Burney.


Art

Rudy Burckhardt, 1914-1999
by Karen Wilkin
A memorial for the photographer, filmmaker & painter.


Music

Seattle's new "Ring"
by Patrick J. Smith


The Media

The mote & the beam
by James Bowman
Bush, Gore & the unexamined journalists.


Books

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
by Jenny Teichman
A review of A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation, by Peter Singer & Singer and His Critics, edited by Dale Jamieson.

Orpheus in Hell
by Alexander Coleman
A review of Composers of the Nazi Era: Eight Portraits, by Michael H. Kater.

The maiden phoenix
by Paul Dean
A review of Elizabeth I: Collected Works, edited by Leah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller & Mary Beth Rose.

Faking O'Neill
by Herb Greer
A review of Eugene O’Neill: Beyond Mourning and Tragedy, by Stephen A. Black.