Volume 1 Number 1. September 1982, Page 1
A note on The New Criterion
An inaugural statement from the founding editors of The New Criterion.
An inaugural statement from the founding editors of The New Criterion.
On the state of American literary culture.
Reflections on Old Berlin, translated from the German by Joachim Neugroschel.
On postmodernism and the institutionalization of the avant-garde.
On the editor of Scrutiny.
On the tradition and inspiration of Barbara Pym.
On the Thomas Eakins retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
On the history of American performances.
On the historical perspective of Calder’s notion of “drawing in space.”
On “New American Art Museums” at the Whitney.
A review of La cérémonie des adieux / Entretiens avec Jean-Paul Sartre (Folio t. 1805) (French Edition) by Simone De Beauvoir.
A review of American Journey by Richard Reeves.
A review of The Paintings of Arshile Gorky: A Critical Catalogue by Jim M. Jordan.
On the controversial representation of past and present.
On relationships between artists and reality.
William Arrowsmith on the discussion of Eliot’s poetry.
On Cobbett's ideas and influence.
On Ann Beattie’s characters and technique.
On “El Greco of Toledo” at the Prado, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., the Toledo Museum of Art, and the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts.
On endless re-recordings of masterpieces.
A review of “On the Road Conference” about the Beat Generation.
On a conference on Design at the Royal College of Art.
A review of The Art Presence by Sanford Schwartz.
A review of Pier Paolo Pasolini: Poems by Pier Paolo Pasolini. and Pasolini: A biography by Enzo Siciliano.
A review of Bollingen: An Adventure in Collecting the Past by William Mcguire.
On the history of American skyscrapers.
On Robert Graves & Laura Riding.
On the eruption of a new movement in art.
On William Gerhardie's life and legacy.
On the Milton Avery retrospective at the Whitney Museum.
On performances at the Metropolitan Opera.
On Glenn Gould's recording career.
On American International Style.
A review of Camus by Patrick Mccarthy.
A review of A Susan Sontag Reader by Susan Sontag.
A review of God's Grace: A Novel by Bernard Malamud.
On Edward Thomas's poetry.
Translated with an introduction by Paul Auster.
On the nature of literary criticism.
On writing and reading history.
On the forgotten movement obsessed with the beauty of industry.
On the nature of plastic arts.
On “Presences of Nature: British Landscape, 1780-1830” at Yale.
On the Berlin Philharmonic under Karajan in New York & California.
On the mystery of plots, language, and characters in modern literature.
On the Royal Shakespeare Company production of the musical Poppy.
A review of Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller by Judith Thurman.
A review of Mexican Cinema: Reflections of a Society by Carl J. Mora.
A review of Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England by John Putnam Demos.
A review of Bech Is Back by John Updike.
On Eastern European literature and conversations about its past and present.
On Robert Lowell's life and poetry.
On the Isabella Stewart Gardner collection.
On the letters of the de Montbourg family.
On American poetry.
On David Smith's life and sculptures.
A look at the history of classical recordings and the producers behind them.
A remembrance of the journalist.
On The Joke by Milan Kundera & other novels.
On the Francis W. Little house of Frank Lloyd Wright.
A review of John Singer Sargent by Carter Ratcliff.
A review of The Literary Underground of the Old Regime by Robert Darnton.
A review of “The Life of John Berryman”, by John Haffenden.
A review of Margin Of Hope: An Intellectual Autobiography by Irving Howe.
On Leslie Fiedler's legacy.
On East European literature.
On writer's isolation and alienation.
On the meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Baltimore.
On the American short story circa 1983.
A review of Musik im NS-Staat. by Fred K. Prieberg.
A review of Thomas Mann Diaries 1918-1939 by Thomas Mann.
A review of The History of Photography: From 1839 to the Present by Beaumont Newhall.
On the rootedness of Kiefer’s landscapes and Beuys’s drawings in German history.
On Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing.
On Edouard Manet’s life and paintings.
On Horowitz by Glenn Plaskin.
A review of Les Fleurs Du Mal by Charles Baudelaire.
A review of F. Scott Fitzgerald by Andre Le Vot.
On “The Vatican Collections” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
On the interpretations of Hamlet.
On a traveling exhibition for the American Modernist.
On music in Germany.
On Zubin Mehta's performance in New York.
A review of Ararat, by D. M. Thomas, The End of the World News, by Anthony Burgess, and Pilgermann, by Russell Hoban.
A review of Michelangelo: A Psychoanalytic Study of His Life and Images by Robert S. Liebert.
A review of Italian Journey: 1786-1788 by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.
On the retrospective at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
On Shakespeare & his literary forerunners, contemporaries & heirs.
On writing on writers.
On the artistic life in the Soviet Union.
On plays by Caryl Churchill, David Hare, and Julian Mitchell.
On Julio González’s style and sculptures.
On musical performances in New York City.
A review of The English world: History, Character, and People by Robert Blake.
A review of The Rare Art Traditions: The History of Art Collecting and Its Linked Phenomena Wherever These Have Appeared by Joseph Alsop.
A review of On Native Grounds: An Interpretation Of Modern American Prose Literature by Alfred Kazin.
On the precipitous collapse of the revived Vanity Fair.
On Henry Adams’s life and career.
On the relationships between the artists.
On Russian literature and culture.
On recent books and a career retrospective at the National Gallery of Art.
On the exhibition at the Tate Gallery.
On The Cradle Will Rock.
On art and politics.
A review of The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry by Blake Morrison.
A review of The Witness of Poetry by Czeslaw Milosz.
A review of Circa 1600 by S. J. Freedberg.