The New Criterion
(Mobile Version)

September 2002 Volume 21, Number 1  

Notes & Comments

Déjà–vu II
On the easing of marijuana restrictions in London

Déjà–vu I
On the recent re-issue of Frances FitzGerald’s Fire in the Lake.


Features

The power of James Burnham
by Roger Kimball
An essay on one of the greatest, and most underrated, political and social commentators of the twentieth century.

How good is the Kirov?
by Laura Jacobs
On the Kirov Ballet, occasioned by performances at the Met this summer.

The myth of
by Harvey Klehr
Re-evaluating the treatment of the volunteers of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.

American sublime
by Michael J. Lewis

Thomas Hardy & the warriors
by Jeffrey Meyers


Poems

The patient lookers
by Adam Kirsch

Indecision
by Adam Kirsch

42 up
by Adam Kirsch

Waking
by Adam Kirsch


Theater

Stoppard's “Utopia”
by Mark Steyn


Art

Summer at the MET
by Karen Wilkin


Music

Great conductors
by Jay Nordlinger
On the IMG Artists series Great Conductors of the 20th Century


The Media

The aristocracy of feelings
by James Bowman
On the idea of war as a result of emotions.


Books

Who's he?
by William F. Buckley Jr.
A review of Snobbery: The American Version by Joseph Epstein.

The sweetness of things
by David Pryce-Jones
A review of Trains of Thought, by Victor Brombert.

The Baroness Munchausen of sex
by Anthony Daniels
A review of The Sexual Life of Catherine M. by Catherine Millet, translated by Adriana Hunter.

Intellectual decadence
by Digby Anderson
A review of Discontents: Postmodern & Poscommunist , by Paul Hollander.

Two 'berds in the hand
by Ben Downing
A review of The Very Best of The Daily Telegraph Books of Obituaries , edited by Hugh Massingberd & Daydream Believer , by Hugh Massingberd.