The New Criterion

Volume 1

September 1982 – June 1983

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Adams, Michael Vannoy

• Sontag vs. Sontag, a review of A Susan Sontag Reader (BOOKS), Nov., 83

Agee, William C.

• Looking at Braque (ART), Feb., 51

Arrowsmith, William

• Eros in Terre Haute: T.S. Eliot’s “Lune de Miel,” Oct., 22

Auster, Paul

• Introduction to “Notebooks of Joseph Joubert,” Dec., 17.

Baranczak, Stanislaw

• The small, battered desk (The writer’s role: responses to Hortense Calisher’s “The Long, Shining Table”), Feb., 31;
• Hope against hope, a review of The Witness of Poetry by Czeslaw Milosz (BOOKS), June, 84

Barrett, William

• Alone with the page (The writer’s role: responses to Hortense Calisher’s “The Long, Shining Table”), Feb., 33

Blake, Patricia

• Max Hayward: a portrait, June, 25

Blinken, Donald M.

• The Rothko Case (Letter), May, 87

Brown, Frederick

• The last days of Jean-Paul Sartre a review of La Cérémonie des adieux by Simone de Beauvoir (BOOKS), Sept., 70;
• A family of ghosts, on the letters of the de Montbourg family, Jan., 35

Buckland, Gail

• Photographs & history, a review of The History of Photography from 1839 to the Present by Beaumont Newhall (BOOKS), Feb., 73;
• The art & life of Alfred Stieglitz, June, 47

Calisher, Hortense

• Enclosures: Barbara Pym, Sept., 53;
• William Gerhardie: a resurrection, Nov., 46;
• The long, shining table: writers in Eastern Europe, Jan., 1;
• Replies to Stanislaw Baranczak, William Barrett, Cynthia Ozick & Richard Wilbur (The writer’s role: responses to Hortense Calisher’s “The Long, Shining Table”), Feb., 39;
• Museums, June, 56

Canetti, Elias

• Berlin 1928 translated from the German by Joachim Neugroschel, Sept., 16

Cocking, J. M.

• Introduction to “Proust before ‘A la recherche’: selected letters, 1880-1903,”, Apr., 14

Cohen, Arthur A.

• Mann revealed, a review of Thomas Mann Diaries: 1918–1939 (BOOKS), Feb., 65

Crews, Frederick

• Pop goes the critic, on Leslie Fiedler, Feb., 1

Dempsey, Charles

• Michelangelo on the couch, a review of Michelangelo: A Psychoanalytic Study by Robert S. Liebert, M.D. (BOOKS), Apr., 72;
• Masters of rhetoric, a review of Circa 1600: A Revolution of Style in Italian Painting by S. J. Freedberg (BOOKS), June, 87

Downes, Rackstraw

• English landscapes, on Presences of Nature: British Landscape, 1780-1830 at Yale (ART), Dec., 57

The Editors

• A note on “The New Criterion,”, Sept., 1

Elizer, Elaine

• Mr. Ludwig goes to Moscow, on the Peter Ludwig collection of Soviet art (ART), May, 50

Epstein, Joseph

• The literary life today, Sept., 6;
• Reviewing & being reviewed, Dec., 32;
• Literary biography, May, 27

Evanier, David

• Fiction (Letter), June, 92

Falcoff, Mark

• Mexico at the movies, a review of Mexican Cinema by Carl J. Mora (BOOKS), Dec., 78

Gilbert, Creighton

• The Popes’ art, out on loan, on The Vatican Collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Apr., 1

Gilder, Joshua

• Down & out: the stories of Ann Beattie, Oct., 51;
• Spirits in the material world, on The Names by Don DeLillo, The Woods by David Plante & other new American novels (FICTION CHRONICLE), Dec., 88;
• Going east, on The Joke by Milan Kundera & other novels (FICTION CHRONICLE), Jan., 87;
• Less is less, on the American short story circa 1983 (FICTION CHRONICLE), Feb., 78;
• The end of the world, on Ararat by D. M. Thomas & other novels (FICTION CHRONICLE), Apr. 83

Greer, Herb

• Politics on stage, on David Hare’s A Map of the World & other recent London theater (LETTER FROM LONDON), June, 74

Gress, David

• The pride & prejudice of Fernand Braudel, Apr., 7

Grundberg, Andy

• John Berger & photography, Mar., 43

Hall, Donald

• New British poets a review of The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry edited by Blake Morrison & Andrew Motion (BOOKS), June, 81

Himmelfarb, Gertrude

• William Cobbett: “an English episode,”, Oct., 42;
• Who now reads Macaulay?, Dec., 41;
• “The Englishness of England,” a review of The English World edited by Robert Blake (BOOKS), May, 64;
• Reply to George Spater (Letter), May, 92

Hofstadter, Dan

• Sargent’s Edwardians, a review of John Singer Sargent by Carter Ratcliff (BOOKS), Jan., 68;
• (ART), Mar., 64

Huxtable, Ada Louise

• The tall building artistically reconsidered, Nov., 1

Jordy, William H.

• The new museum, on New American Art Museums at the Whitney (ARCHITECTURE), Sept., 61;
• Neutra & the International Style (ARCHITECTURE), Nov., 69;
• The sculpture of Joel Shapiro (ART), Dec. 54;
• The “Little house” at the Metropolitan, on the Francis W. Little house of Frank Lloyd Wright (ARCHITECTURE), Jan., 56;
• “I am alone”: Le Corbusier, bathrooms & airplanes, Apr., 41

Joubert, Joseph

• Notebooks of Joseph Joubert selected & translated from the French by Paul Auster, Dec., 17

Kramer, Hilton

• Postmodern: art & culture in the 1980s, Sept., 36;
• The Eakins retrospective (ART), Sept., 66;
• Where art intersects with life, a review of The Art Presence by Sanford Schwartz (BOOKS), Oct., 74;
• Signs of passion: the new expressionism, Nov., 40;
• “Images of America”: the Precisionists, Dec., 48;
• David Smith in Washington (ART), Jan., 62;
• A marginal “life,” a review of A Margin of Hope by Irving Howe (BOOKS), Jan., 82;
• Dwight Macdonald, 1906–1982 (NOTEBOOK), Jan., 91;
• The Morton Schamberg retrospective (ART), Apr., 50;
• Fairfield Porter: an American classic, May, 1;
• Reply to Michael C. D. Macdonald (Letter), May, 92;
• “Vanity Fair”: an autopsy, June, 1;
• “The Essential Cubism” in London (ART), June, 63

Kramer, Mimi

• Opium & empire, on the Royal Shakespeare Company production of the musical Poppy (LETTER FROM LONDON), Dec., 66;
• No time for comedy, on Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing (THEATER), Mar., 56;
• Hamlet undone, on productions of Hamlet by Joseph Papp & Jonathan Miller (THEATER), Apr., 55;
• Want in the midst of “Plenty” (THEATER), May, 55

Krystal, Arthur

• Novel of the apes, a review of God’s Grace by Bernard Malamud (BOOKS), Nov., 87

Langbaum, Robert

• The price of distinction, a review of Isak Dinesen by Judith Thurman (BOOKS), Dec., 71

Leithauser, Brad

• Metrical illiteracy, Jan., 41;
• The “complete” Elizabeth Bishop, Mar., 36

Lilla, Mark

• Among the philosophers, on the meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Baltimore (NOTEBOOK), Feb., 86

Lipman, Samuel

• American opera: honors & performances (MUSIC), Sept., 57;
• Stravinsky: re-recording history (MUSIC), Oct., 57;
• Opera appreciation, Metropolitan-style (MUSIC), Nov., 63;
• Glenn Gould (NOTEBOOK), Nov., 91;
• Berlin on two coasts, on the Berlin Philharmonic under Karajan in New York & California (MUSIC), Dec., 60;
• Getting on the record, on three pioneers of early music-recording (MUSIC), Jan., 47;
• The real Vladimir Horowitz?, on Horowitz by Glenn Plaskin (MUSIC), Mar., 48;
• Room on the podium?, on the status of the music director in America (NOTEBOOK), Apr., 89;
• PBS flogs the arts (NOTEBOOK), May, 80;
• Blitzstein’s cradle (MUSIC), June, 68

Lord, James

• Giacometti & Picasso: chronicle of a friendship, June, 16

Lynn, Kenneth S.

• Act one, a review of On Native Grounds (Fortieth Anniversary Edition) by Alfred Kazin (BOOKS), May, 72

Macdonald, Michael C. D.

• Dwight Macdonald (Letter), May, 91

Mack, Dana

• Music in Naziland, a review of Musik im NS-Staat by Fred K. Prieberg (BOOKS), Feb., 57

Masheck, Joseph

• Calder’s no-fault “Circus” (NOTEBOOK), Sept., 87

Mellow, James R.

• Jung & company a review of Bollingen: An Adventure in Collecting the Past by William McGuire (BOOKS), Oct., 81;
• Fact into fiction, a review of F. Scott Fitzgerald by André Le Vot (BOOKS), Mar., 83

Myers, John Bernard

• Mark Rothko & the Rothko case: notes, memories, observations, Feb., 10;
• Reply to Donald M. Blinken (Letter), May, 90

Nisbet, Robert

• Tocqueville revisited a review of American Journey by Richard Reeves (BOOKS) Sept., 76;
• Grub Street to revolution, a review of The Literary Underground of the Old Regime by Robert Darnton (BOOKS), Jan., 74

Ozick, Cynthia

• Against prophets with honor (The writer’s role: responses to Hortense Calisher’s “The Long, Shining Table”), Feb., 33

Paul, David

• The art of translation, a review of Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal translated from the French by Richard Howard (BOOKS), Mar., 77;
• The Bard & company, on English Renaissance drama, May, 8

Perl, Jed

• Modern painting & “reality,”, Oct., 18

Petersen, Donald

• The legacy of Robert Lowell, Jan., 9

Podhoretz, John

• Thinking big, a review of Bech Is Back by John Updike (BOOKS), Dec., 84

Podhoretz, Norman

• F. R. Leavis: a revaluation, Sept., 43;
• Podhoretz, Norman Camus & his critics, a review of Camus by Patrick McCarthy (BOOKS) Nov., 74
• Henry Adams: the “powerless” intellectual in America, June, 6

Prokosch, Frederic

• Voices: a memoir, Mar., 10

Proust, Marcel

• Proust before “A la recherche”: selected letters, 1880-1903 edited by Philip Kolb & translated from the French by Ralph Manheim, with an introduction by J. M. Cocking, Apr., 14

Richman, Robert

• In search of Edward Thomas, Dec., 1

Rosand, David

• El Greco’s brush (ART), Oct., 65

Schwartz, Sanford

• The Avery retrospective (ART) Nov., 55;
• Anselm Kiefer, Joseph Beuys & the ghosts of the Fatherland, Mar., 1

Scruton, Roger

• Reflections on a candlestick, on a conference on Design at the Royal College of Art (LETTER FROM LONDON), Oct., 70

Seymour-Smith, Martin

• “The Free Love Corner,” on Robert Graves & Laura Riding, Nov., 26

Shaw, Peter

• The possessed, a review of Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft & the Culture of Early New England by John Putnam Demos (BOOKS), Dec., 81

Shils, Edward

• Lewis Mumford: on the way to the New Jerusalem, May, 38

Smith, Patrick J.

• Opera in Germany (MUSIC), Apr., 64

Spater, George

• Cobbett & the Reform Act (Letter), May, 92

Stark, Andy

• The Beat convention (NOTEBOOK), Oct., 84

Sutton, Denys

• Collecting art a review of The Rare Art Traditions by Joseph Alsop (BOOKS), May, 68

Thaw, E. V.

• The art of the catalogue, a review of The Paintings of Arshile Gorky by Jim M. Jordan & Robert Goldwater (BOOKS), Sept., 82

Trustman, Deborah

• What was “Vanity Fair”? (NOTEBOOK) Feb., 84

Tucker, William

• The González exhibition (ART), May, 45

Volk, Mary Crawford

• Painting at Fenway Court, on the Isabella Stewart Gardner collection, Jan., 30

Warman, Jerzy

• “The Interrogation” interrogated: the fate of a Polish film, Oct., 1

West, Philip

• American orchestras (Letter), June, 92

Wilbur, Richard

• At a certain remove (The writer’s role: responses to Hortense Calisher’s “The Long, Shining Table”), Feb., 37

Winters, Philip

• Wagner: writing the wrongs (MUSIC), Feb., 41

Young, Vernon

• Twilight in Italy a review of Poems by Pier Paolo Pasolini & Pasolini: A Biography by Enzo Siciliano (BOOKS), Oct., 78;
• Worst Possible Ordeal, a review of The Life of John Berryman by John Haffenden (BOOKS), Jan., 79;
• The skull of Raphael, a review of Goethe’s Italian Journey translated from the German by W. H. Auden & Elizabeth Mayer (BOOKS), Apr., 76