The New Criterion
(Mobile Version)

September 1983 Volume 2, Number 1  

Features

“Partisan Review”: down the memory hole
by Hilton Kramer

Ralph Ellison and a literary “ancestor”: Dostoevsky
by Joseph Frank

The mystery of Terpsichore: Balanchine, Stravinsky and “Apollo”
by Eva Resnikova

The case of Roy Campbell
by Robert Richman

The Philharmonic’s new horizons
by Samuel Lipman

The two Flauberts
by David Paul


Theater

Shakespeare, Joe’s contemporary
by Mimi Kramer


Art

Holbein’s visit to America
by Creighton Gilbert

The Malcolm Morley retrospective
by Hilton Kramer


Books

Melville as social realist
by Michael Vannoy Adams
A review of Subversive Genealogy: The Politics & Art of Herman Melville by Michael Paul Rogin.

Semiotics and murder
by Barry Schwabsky
A review of The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco.

The Romantic agony
by Anita Brookner
A review of Géricault: His Life & Work by Lorenz Eitner.


Letters

Fairfield Porter
by Clement Greenberg