The New Criterion

Volume 10

September 1991 – June 1992

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Allen, Brooke

• The old devil remembers, a review of Memoirs by Kingsley Amis (BOOKS) Oct., 60;
• Mr. Wu & Mrs. Stitch, a review of The Letters of Evelyn Waugh & Diana Cooper edited by Artemis Cooper (BOOKS) Jan., 69;
• Nasty & nice, a review of Will This Do? by Auberon Waugh (BOOKS) June, 77

Allen, Dick

• Homefront (Poem), Mar., 50

Arkin, Marc M.

• Song of himself: Harold Bloom on God, a review of The American Religion by Harold Bloom (BOOKS) May, 60

Auchincloss, Louis

• Pater & Wilde: aestheticism & homosexuality (NOTEBOOK) Oct., 77;
• Reply to Marcela Breton (Letter), Dec., 80

Baker, David

• The accident (Poem), June, 49

Baranczak, Stanislaw

• The voice ofsanity, a review of Open Letters: Selected Writings by Václav Havel (BOOKS) Sept., 152

Barnes, R. G.

• see Jorge Luis Borges

Bawer, Bruce

• Literary life in the 1990s, Sept., 53;
• Race & art: the career of James Baldwin, Nov., 16;
• Shorter notice of The Journals of John Cheever edited by Robert Gottlieb (BOOKS) Nov., 77;
• Columbia’s assault on the American novel, Dec., 20;
• Big & bad, on Harlot’s Ghost by Norman Mailer & The Runaway Soul by Harold Brodkey (FICTION CHRONICLE) Jan., 58;
• Reply to Donald Lazere (Letter), Feb., 78;
• A still, small voice: the novels of Penelope Fitzgerald, Mar., 33;
• Reply to Edward T. Chase (Letter), Mar., 79;
• Geniuses all the time, a review of The Portable Beat Reader edited by Ann Charters (BOOKS) Apr., 60;
• All that jazz, on Jazz & Playing in the Dark by Toni Morrison, May, 10;
• The living & the dead, on The Living by Annie Dillard & Paradise News by David Lodge (FICTION CHRONICLE) June, 63;
• Shorter notice of Wallace Stevens: The Plain Sense of Things by James Longenbach (BOOKS) June, 84

Bilson, Malcolm

• Old Mozart, old pianos (Letter), May, 84

Borges, Jorge Luis

• The art of poetry (Poem), translated from the Spanish by Robert Mezey, Dec., 35;
• Paris, 1856 (Poem), translated from the Spanish by Robert Mezey, Dec., 36;
• The cipher (Poem), translated from the Spanish by Robert Mezey with R. G. Barnes, Dec., 37;
• Milonga of Manuel Flores (Poem), translated from the Spanish by Robert Mezey, Dec., 38;
• The hourglass (Poem), translated from the Spanish by Robert Mezey with R. G. Barnes, Dec., 39;
• Epilogue (Poem), translated from the Spanish by Robert Mezey, Dec., 41

Bowman, James

• Modernism in all things, a review of The Birth ofthe Modern by Paul Johnson (BOOKS) Oct., 64;
• A lot of Fussell about nothing, a review of BAD, or, The Dumbing of America by Paul Fussell (BOOKS) Nov., 66;
• Assbackwards, a review of Time’s Arrow by Martin Amis (BOOKS) Dec., 66;
• Condescending to Columbus, on The Conquest of Paradise by Kirkpatrick Sale & other works (NOTEBOOK) Feb., 70;
• Apologies to Sidney, a review of Sir Philip Sidney by Katherine Duncan-Jones (BOOKS) Mar., 71;
• What was the question? a review of The Gates of Ivory by Margaret Drabble (BOOKS) May, 65;
• Fuss & featherweights, a review of Talents & Technicians by John W. Aldridge (BOOKS) June, 81

Breton, Marcela

• Aestheticism & homosexuality (Letter), Dec., 79

Brooks, Cleanth

• Braving time, a review of The Enemy’s Country by Geoffrey Hill (BOOKS) Feb., 58

Carduff, Christopher

• Shorter notice of In Search of the Present by Octavio Paz (BOOKS) Sept., 158;
• Il caso Lampedusa, Jan., 19;
• Shorter notice of Shade Those Laurels by Cyril Connolly, concluded by Peter Levi (BOOKS) Feb., 67;
• Shorter notice of Dear Departed by Marguerite Yourcenar (BOOKS) Mar., 75

Carne-Ross, D. S.

• Pantagruelism for our time? Rabelais reconsidered, May, 33

Chase, Edward T.

• “Poetry & the Free Market” (Letter), Mar., 79

Dagen, Philippe

• Monsieur le comte: a visit with Balthus (NOTEBOOK) translated from the French by Erich Eichman, Dec., 75

Davis, Douglas

• “The Museum Transformed” (Letter), Feb., 79

Di Piero, W. S.

• Red roses (Poem), Nov., 55

Dynes, Wayne

• Authoritarian Marxism, a review of Citadel Culture by O.K. Werckmeister (BOOKS) Apr., 66

Eichman, Erich

• see Philippe Dagen

Epstein, Joseph

• Chamfort: an introduction, Sept., 99;
• Hazlitt’s passions, Nov., 33

Falcoff, Mark

• Carlos Fuentes discovers America, on Fuentes’s The Buried Mirror (NOTEBOOK) Apr., 77

Fromkin, David

• The importance of T.E. Lawrence, Sept., 86

Fromm, Gloria G.

• Introduction to “Letters of Dorothy Richardson,” Apr., 10
• See also Dorothy Richardson

Gibson, Eric

• Remaking Bearden (ART) Nov., 62

Gilbert, Creighton

• A celebrated age, on Circa 1492 in Washington (ART) Jan., 45

Gioia, Dana

• A poet’s poet, a review of A Donald Justice Reader: Selected Poetry & Prose (BOOKS) May, 68

Greenberg, Martin

• An individual publisher, a review of Kurt Wolff: A Portrait in Essays & Letters edited by Michael Ermarth (BOOKS) Feb., 61

Griffin, Walter

• In this suspect light (Poem), Oct., 46

Gurevich, David

• Shorter notice of The Goldin Boys by Joseph Epstein (BOOKS) Mar., 77

Hammond, Mary Stewart

• Heirlooms lost (Poem), Sept., 128

Hart, Jeffrey

• Near Wesley Lake, on the legacy of John Wesley, Mar., 20

Hollander, John

• Cissy’s song (Poem), Apr., 41

James, Harold

• Around the world in eighty days, a review of The Duel by John Lukacs (BOOKS) Oct., 70;
• The tiger & the young lady, a review of From Weimar to Auschwitz by Hans Mommsen (BOOKS) Apr., 68

Johnson, Frank

• British intellectuals in the Thatcher era, Sept., 75

Justice, Donald

• Banjo dog variations (Poem), Mar., 47

Kagan, Donald

• The human sources of history, a review of The Classical Foundations of Modern Historiography by Arnaldo Momigliano (BOOKS ) Mar., 67

Kenyon, Jane

• Windfalls (Poem), Oct., 42;
• In memory of Jack (Poem), Oct., 43

Kimball, Roger

• The legacy of Friedrich Nietzsche, Sept., 28;
• Cleanth Brooks & the New Criticism, Oct., 21;
• A very Sixties person: Peter Schjeldahl on art, Nov., 27;
• Clipper-Class classicism: Robert Venturi’s London adventure (ARCHITECTURE) Dec., 42;
• Francis Fukuyama & the end of History, Feb., 9;
• Shorter notice of John Nash by Michael Mansbridge (BOOKS) Feb., 68;
• A novelist who hunted the fox: Anthony Trollope today, Mar., 10;
• Elitist anti-elitism: Robert Venturi does Seattle, Apr., 4;
• “The present is history”: conducting culture at Bard, May, 4;
• Abolishing art at the Whitney, June, 4

Knorr, Katherine

• L’Etat culturel (LETTER FROM PARIS), Mar., 51

Kolakowski, Leszek

• Crime & punishment, Nov., 45

Kramer, Hilton

• Has success spoiled the art museum? Sept., 5;
• “Degenerate Art” & the war against modernism, Oct., 5;
• An Orwell for the Nineties? Nov., 4;
• Lincoln Kirstein & the “aesthetic” generation, Dec., 4;
• Stuart Davis at the Met, Jan., 4;
• Reply to Gerald Marzorati (Letter), Jan., 80;
• The criticism of André Levinson, Feb., 3;
• Reply to Douglas Davis (Letter), Feb., 79;
• Art & politics in the Vichy period, Mar., 4

Kristeller, Paul Oskar

• The humanists reassessed, a review of Defenders of the Text by Anthony Grafton (BOOKS) Nov., 69

Lazere, Donald

• Partisan passions (Letter), Feb., 77

Leithauser, Brad

• A footnote for Housman, Sept., 109

Lewis, Tess

• A poet & particularist, a review of On the Look-out by C.H. Sisson (BOOKS) Nov., 73;
• Shorter notice of Reading Old Friends by John Matthias (BOOKS) Apr., 75

Lipman, Samuel

• The culture ofclassical music today, Sept., 13;
• Gieseking’s incomparable Ravel & Debussy (MUSIC) Oct., 48;
• Music as a vocation, Dec., 8;
• Perahia in London & on disc (MUSIC) Jan., 49;
• Menuhin: the child, the genius, the man (MUSIC) Feb., 42;
• Old Mozart & the new past, Mar., 29;
• Egon Petri: the musician as virtuoso (MUSIC) Apr., 45;
• A tale of two orchestras, on the New York Philharmonic under Kurt Masur & the Vienna Philharmonic under Lorin Maazel (MUSIC) May, 44;
• Reply to Malcolm Bilson (Letter), May, 86;
• The crisis in concert programming, June, 23;
• The charms of Darius Milhaud (MUSIC) June, 61

Lyons, Donald

• Euripides in Paris, Shakespeare in London (THEATER) Sept., 131;
• Playwrights & tyrants, on Mikhail Bulgakov (THEATER) Oct., 57;
• Shorter notice of Le Syndrome de l’Opéra by Maryvonne de Saint Pulgent (BOOKS) Oct., 74;
• Shorter notice of Giordano Bruno & the Embassy Affair by John Bossy (BOOKS) Nov., 76;
• Smorgasbord, on Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa & other plays (THEATER) Dec., 52;
• Othertimes, otherwheres, on Arthur Miller’s The Crucible & other plays (THEATER) Jan., 54;
• Shorter notice of Virgil by David R. Slavitt (BOOKS) Jan., 77;
• By way of L.A., on Nick & Nora & other plays (THEATER) Feb., 54;
• A palpable miss, on Richard Nelson’s Two Shakespearean Actors (THEATER) Mar., 65;
• ’S wonderful; ’s marvelous; stinks, on Crazy for You & other plays (THEATER) Apr., 56;
• Schiller & other exhumations, on Friedrich Schiller’s Mary Stuart & other plays (THEATER) May, 54;
• Revived & well, on new productions of A Streetcar Named Desire & Guys & Dolls (THEATER) June, 57;
• Shorter notice of Ancient Sun, Modern Light by Marianne McDonald (BOOKS) June, 83

Mac Donald, Heather

• The Sobol report: multiculturalism triumphant, Jan., 9;
• Underdog & pony show: the Left convenes at Hunter College (NOTEBOOK) June, 86

Mallon, Thomas

• Our woman in Europe, a review of “These Sad But Glorious Days” by Margaret Fuller (BOOKS) Mar., 73

Mariani, Paul

• Variations on a theme by Justice (Poem), Sept., 127

Marzorati, Gerald

• George Orwell (Letter), Jan., 79

Matthias, John

• After years away (Poem), Jan., 34

Meyers, Jeffrey

• The omelet of A. MacLeish, a review of Archibald MacLeish by Scott Donaldson (BOOKS) May, 74;
• The dynamics of destruction, a review of The Interior Castle: The Art & Life of Jean Stafford by Ann Hulbert (BOOKS) June, 70

Mezey, Robert

• Introduction to “Six Poems by Jorge Luis Borges,” Dec., 32
• See also Jorge Luis Borges

Morgan, Frederick

• After Shen Zhou (Poem), Sept., 124;
• Dolores (Poem), Sept., 125;
• Hypatia (Poem), May, 40;
• “I called up Myrtis from the dead . . .” (Poem), May, 42

Norris, Leslie

• from “Bringing In the Selves” (Poem), Nov., 52;
• A carol for my wife (Poem), Jan., 33;
• Spitfire (Poem), Feb., 37

Notes & Comments

• The counter-revolution abroad, the cultural revolution at home, Sept., 1;
• Post-Communist radicalism & the cultural revolution, Oct., 1;
• The Everyman aura, Oct., 2;
• The academic Left strikes back, Nov., 1;
• Art & politics, “Klinghoffer”-style, Nov., 2;
• “Oh, happy day” I, Dec., 1;
• “Oh, happy day” II, Dec., 1;
• The PC line on censorship, Dec., 2;
• The NEA & arts education, Jan., 1;
• Anything goes, Jan., 2;
• A strategy ofdenial, Feb., 1;
• One cheer for Robert Hughes, Mar., 1;
• The artifice business, Mar., 3;
• The mess at the NEA, Apr., 1;
• A Pulitzer for liberal piety, May, 1;
• Deutsche Grammophon’s “All-Star Cards,” May, 2;
• Sexual politics at MIT, June, 1;
• The NEA comes to the Metropolitan, June, 2

O’Brien, Darcy

• Marxism & the young (Letter), Feb., 79

Paradiso, Kathleen

• The mark ofthe She-Bear, Oct., 27

Parker, Alan Michael

• Two suns (Poem), Feb., 39

Perl, Jed

• A tale ofthree cities, on The 1920s: Age ofthe Metropolis in Montreal (ART) Sept., 136;
• Hélion’s optimism (ART) Oct., 52;
• Visual culture (LETTER FROM JERUSALEM) Nov., 56;
• Leland Bell, 1922-1991 (NOTEBOOK) Nov., 79;
• Dis\modern, on Dis\locations at MOMA (ART) Dec., 46;
• Amateurs & others, on Thrift Store Paintings & other shows (ART) Jan., 37;
• By the month, a gallery round-up (ART) Feb., 49;
• Rescued, on Gay Block’s Rescuers ofthe Holocaust (PHOTOGRAPHY) Apr., 52;
• Breakthrough, idyll, icon, allegory, on Allegories of Modernism at MOMA & other shows (ART) May, 48;
• Irreconcilable differences, a gallery round-up (ART) June, 51

Plagens, Peter

• Peter Schjeldahl (Letter), Dec., 80

Putnam, Thomas

• Cummings & Gaston Lachaise (Letter), May, 88

Radosh, Ronald

• Jon Wiener’s pop Marxism, Mar., 43

Reidel, James

• Homage to Ralph Blakelock (Poem), June, 47

Rice, William

• Enterprising explicators, a review of Academic Capitalism & Literary Value by Harold Fromm (BOOKS) Apr., 73

Richardson, Dorothy

• Letters of Dorothy Richardson selected, with an introduction, by Gloria G. Fromm, Apr., 10

Richman, Robert

• Shorter notice of One ofthe Dangerous Trades by Peter Davison (BOOKS) Sept., 159;
• Footholds in reality, a review of Selected Poems by Derek Mahon (BOOKS) Feb., 64

Ricks, Christopher

• The art & faith of Gerard Manley Hopkins, a review of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Robert Bernard Martin (BOOKS) Sept., 142

Rifkind, Donna

• Natives ofthe James family, a review of The Jameses by R.W.B. Lewis (BOOKS) Dec., 69

Rosenthal, Deborah

• Abstraction then & now, or, thoughts on drawing from the Morgan Beatus, Feb., 24

Rudich, Vasily

• Keepers of the flame: the recovery of Russian literature, Oct., 10

Salter, Mary Jo

• The heart is slow to learn, on Edna St. Vincent Millay, Apr., 23

Samaras, Nicholas

• Angiogram (Poem), June, 45

Schjeldahl, Peter

• Schjeldahl on Schjeldahl (Letter), Jan., 80

Shapiro, Harvey

• How it ended (Poem), Oct., 47;
• Meditation on a Brooklyn bench (Poem), Apr., 43;
• When the spirit (Poem), Apr., 44

Shomer, Enid

• On Jekyll Island (Poem), Oct., 44

Simon, John

• Rimbaud, the anarchic demiurge, Sept., 61;
• Connoisseur of madness, addict ofsuicide, a review of Anne Sexton by Diane Wood Middlebrook (BOOKS) Dec., 58;
• Other people’s music: Corigliano at the Met, Feb., 16;
• Fire & ice: Aulis Sallinen’s “Kullervo,” May, 18

Simpson, Louis

• On the neglect ofpoetry in the United States, Sept., 81;
• Working out (Poem), Nov., 54;
• A bayman (Poem), Apr., 38

Sisson, C. H.

• The soul of a saint, a review of Saint Augustine: Confessions translated from the Latin by Henry Chadwick (BOOKS) Oct., 68;
• To a garden asleep (Poem), Feb., 40;
• Sonnet (Poem), Feb., 41

Smith, William Jay

• Love letter to a language, a review of An Essay on French Verse by Jaques Barzun ( BOOKS) Sept., 145

Symons, Julian

• War & pieces, a review of Writers on World War II edited by Mordecai Richler (BOOKS) Jan., 73

Teachout, Terry

• The “politics” of Anthony Powell, May, 24;
• Shorter notice of Fortunate Lives by Robb Forman Dew (BOOKS) June, 82

Tillinghast, Richard

• Brian Friel: transcending the Irish national pastime, Oct., 35;
• Manhattan, deconstructing (Poem), May, 43;
• Rebecca West & the tragedy of Yugoslavia, June, 12

Toynton, Evelyn

• Shorter notice of The Impossible H.L. Mencken edited by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (BOOKS) Jan., 77

Tuttleton, James W.

• Simon Schama, Francis Parkman & the writing of history, Sept., 39;
• Shorter notice of The Reader’s Companion to American History edited by Eric Foner & John A. Garraty (BOOKS) Apr., 74;
• William Dean Howells & the practice of criticism, June, 28

Ulmer, James

• The kite (Poem), June, 48

Vine, Richard

• Foucault’s gay science, a review of Michel Foucault by Didier Eribon (BOOKS) Jan., 64

Wauk, John

• Shorter notice of Signposts in a Strange Land by Walker Percy (BOOKS) Oct., 74

Weiner, Lauren

• Shorter notice of The Campaign by Carlos Fuentes (BOOKS) Jan., 76;
• The great Galician novel, a review of The House of Ulloa by Emilia Pardo Bazán (BOOKS) May, 71

Weintraub, J.

• They hissed the tenor!, Feb., 31

Wilkin, Karen

• Ad Reinhardt at MOMA, Sept., 117;
• New light on Corot, Nov., 9;
• Géricault: the ideal & the real, Dec., 13;
• The big top & beyond: Calder at the Whitney, Jan., 27;
• “Woman” & Gaston Lachaise (ART) Mar., 56;
• The political Delacroix, a review of Eugène Delacroix: Prints, Politics & Satire by Nina Maria Athanassoglou-Kallmyer (BOOKS) May, 78;
• Rude & real: Courbet in his letters, June, 38

Winegarten, Renee

• Dusty answer: the case of Drieu La Rochelle, Apr., 30;
• Diderot’s puzzles, a review of “This Is Not a Story” & Other Stories by Denis Diderot, translated from the French by P.N. Furbank (BOOKS) June, 73

Wiseman, Carter

• Stern vs. Kahn in Preppieland (ARCHITECTURE) Mar., 62

Zilles, Luke

• Happy (Poem), June, 50