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Volume 11
September 1992 – June 1993

Aitchison, James

The inheritance (Poem), Nov., 41

Allen, Brooke

Panpipes & preppies, a review of The Secret History by Donna Tartt BOOKS, Oct., 65;
Decline & fall, a review of Evelyn Waugh: The Later Years by Martin Stannard (BOOKS), Nov., 61;
Reading Henry Green, a review of Surviving: The Uncollected Writings of Henry Green edited by Matthew Yorke (BOOKS), Mar., 61;
Red pencils, a review of Proofs by George Steiner (BOOKS), Apr., 65

Arkin, Marc M.

The great awakener, a review of Jonathan Edwards by John E. Smith (BOOKS), May, 59

Arrowsmith, William

see Eugenio Montale

Barr-Sharrar, Beryl

On Hellenistic sculpture (ART), Dec., 42;
“The Greek Miracle”: Classical sculpture at the Met, May, 18

Barth, R. L., Edgar Bowers & 19 other signatories

Henri Coulette (Letter), Nov., 80

Bawer, Bruce

That Sontag woman, on The Volcano Lover by Susan Sontag, Sept., 30;
Membership & memory, a review of Fidelity: Five Stories by Wendell Berry (BOOKS), Nov., 71;
Literature & revolution, on Leviathan by Paul Auster, The Porcupine by Julian Barnes & other recent novels (FICTION CHRONICLE), Dec., 51;
The world & Peter Taylor, on The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court & earlier story collections, Apr., 31;
Why should we read Joyce Cary?, May, 9;
Shorter notice of Delmore Schwartz & James Laughlin: Selected Letters edited by Robert Phillips (BOOKS), May, 78

Berry, J. Duncan

“Style”--or whatever, a review of Problems of Style by Alois Riegl (BOOKS), Apr., 71

Bowman, James

Too “true” to be good, a review of Whistling in the Dark by George Garrett (BOOKS), Sept., 79;
Shorter notice of A Nation of Victims by Charles J. Sykes (BOOKS), Nov., 77;
Radical shtick, a review of Rads by Tom Bates (BOOKS), Dec., 72;
Heroic failures: the “Malcolm X” phenomenon, Jan., 11;
Out of touch, a review of Intellect & Public Life by Thomas Bender (BOOKS), Feb., 75;
The flaying of America, a review of Culture of Complaint by Robert Hughes (BOOKS), Apr., 58;
Pursuits of happiness, on The Wall Street Journal’s “No Guardrails” editorial & other matters (THE MEDIA), May, 54;
Shadows & fog, on The New York Times’s “Children of the Shadows” series & other matters (THE MEDIA), June, 60

Brandow, Michael

“Space,” class, etc. at the New Museum, on In Transit at the New Museum of Contemporary Art (NOTEBOOK), Mar., 78

Brookhiser, Richard

Beyond the bandstand, a review of Charles Ives: “My Father’s Song” by Stuart Feder (BOOKS), Oct., 71

Carduff, Christopher

Fish-eating, whiskey, death & rebirth, on Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell, Nov., 12;
Shorter notice of Leonard & Virginia Woolf as Publishers by J. H. Willis, Jr. (BOOKS), May, 76

Carne-Ross, D. S.

From the baked bricks: the poem of Gilgamesh, a review of Gilgamesh by David Ferry (BOOKS), Sept., 68

Cassidy, Victor M.

Who was Wyndham Lewis?, June, 26

Chace, James

Conducting culture at Bard (Letter), Sept., 87

Cone, Edward T.

Maritain at Princeton (Letter), Apr., 80

Cowling, Maurice

Joseph Needham & the history of Chinese science, Feb., 18

Crawley, Harriet

The hangman’s tale, on SS-3: The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, a film by Jan & Krystyna Kaplan (LETTER FROM PRAGUE), Sept., 55

Davenport, Guy

Idling into romance, a review of Salem Is My Dwelling Place: A Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Edwin H. Miller (BOOKS), Sept., 77;
Books into life, a review of The Double Life of Stephen Crane by Christopher Benfey (BOOKS), Oct., 68;
Nature’s design, a review of Faith in a Seed by Henry D. Thoreau (BOOKS), June, 79

Demetz, Peter

After the Velvet Revolution (LETTER FROM PRAGUE), Sept., 50

Epstein, Joseph

Maurice Baring & the good highbrow, Oct., 10;
The enduring V. S. Pritchett, on Pritchett’s Complete Collected Stories & Complete Collected Essays, Mar., 19;
A great good girl: Dreiser’s “Jennie Gerhardt,” June, 14

Falck, Colin

yes is a pleasant country, a review of E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1904-1962 edited by George J. Firmage (BOOKS), Dec., 69

Falcoff, Mark

The faithless Malraux, Nov., 30;
A life of his own, a review of Gerald Brenan by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy (BOOKS), June, 69

Fitzgerald, Penelope

The death of “Punch” (NOTEBOOK), Sept., 82;
“Really, one should burn everything,” a review of Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, 1940-1985 edited by Anthony Thwaite (BOOKS), Mar., 68

Foerster, Richard

Canto XIII (Poem), Feb., 46

Fromkin, David

The “I” of the storm, a review of The World Crisis by Winston S. Churchill (BOOKS), Feb., 61

Gibson, Eric

Exhibition note on Kandinsky & the American Avant-Garde, 1912-1950 at the Dayton Art Institute (ART), Jan., 51;
Exhibition note on Susan Rothenberg at the Hirshhorn Museum (ART), Apr., 55;
Exhibition note on Picasso & the Age of Iron at the Guggenheim Museum (ART), May, 43

Gilbert, Creighton

The distance of Mantegna, on Andrea Mantegna at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (ART), Oct., 47

Glover, Michael

Shorter notice of The Gonne-Yeats Letters, 1893-1938 edited by Anna MacBride White & A. Norman Jeffares (BOOKS), Feb., 78;
The tongue of the Welsh, a review of Collected Poems by R. S. Thomas (BOOKS), May, 71

Greenberg, Martin

Sentimental favorites, a review of The Granta Book of the American Short Story edited by Richard Ford (BOOKS), Sept., 74;
Introduction to “From the Mattress Grave: Three Late Poems by Heinrich Heine,” Mar., 43;
A defense of translation, on The Poetics of Translation by Willis Barnstone, May, 24.
See also Heinrich Heine

Gress, David

Dangerous liaisons, a review of Past Imperfect: French Intellectuals, 1944-1956 by Tony Judt (BOOKS), Jan., 63

Gross, Barry R.

Peter Singer (Letter), June, 88

Heffernan, Michael

The world of light (Poem), Jan., 42;
Magpies (Poem), Jan., 43

Heine, Heinrich

Der Scheidende (Poem), in German, with facing translation, His good-bye, by Martin Greenberg, Mar., 44;
Lass die heilgen Parabolen (Poem), in German, with facing translation, Enough with all the parables, by Martin Greenberg, Mar., 46;
Gedäctnisfeier (Poem), in German, with facing translation, Memorial service, by Martin Greenberg, Mar., 48

Herington, John

The song of the bow, a review of The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles’ “Philoctetes” by Seamus Heaney (BOOKS), Oct., 73

Herrick, William

Orwell & Spain (Letter), Feb., 80

Hornik, Jessica

Key in hand (Poem), Oct., 46

Hudgins, Andrew

Milton (Poem), Oct., 42;
Blue tree (Poem), Oct., 43;
Bright leaf (Poem), Jan., 44;
Dog pile (Poem), Jan., 45

Jarman, Mark

Unholy sonnets, I-IV (Poems), Apr., 40

Johnston, George Sim

Little Wilson & big God, a review of Against Religion & Jesus by A. N. Wilson (BOOKS), Dec., 59;
Friendship & devotion, a review of Exiles & Fugitives: The Letters of Jacques & Raïssa Maritain, Allen Tate & Caroline Gordon edited by John M. Dunaway (BOOKS), Feb., 65

Kennedy, X. J.

Sharing the score (Poem), Dec., 36;
Orphan asylum, a review of Collected Poems, 1953-1993 by John Updike (BOOKS), Apr., 62

Kimball, Roger

Logic, love & unbearable pity: the private Bertrand Russell, on The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell, Volume I: The Private Years, 1884-1914 edited by Nicholas Griffin, Sept., 12;
How not to write about art, on The Turning Point by April Kingsley, Oct., 4;
The treason of the intellectuals & “The Undoing of Thought,” on The Undoing of Thought by Alain Finkielkraut, Dec., 10;
Exhibition note on Egypt’s Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III & His World at the Kimbell Art Museum (ART), Jan., 52;
The perversions of M. Foucault, on The Passion of Michel Foucault by James Miller, Mar., 10;
The first half of Muriel Spark, on Spark’s memoir Curriculum Vitae, Apr., 9;
Exhibition note on Max Ernst at MOMA (ART), Apr., 56;
Feeling sorry for Rosalind Krauss, on Krauss’s book The Optical Unconscious, May, 4;
Betraying a legacy: the case of the Barnes Foundation, on an exhibition of French paintings at the National Gallery, Washington, June, 9

Klinghoffer, David

Gestures of return, a review of Days of Obligation by Richard Rodriguez (BOOKS), Mar., 70;
A vision in terry cloth, a review of Seaward by Brad Leithauser (BOOKS), May, 65

Kramer, Hilton

Dispersing a museum collection (The new Guggenheim “galaxy”: I), Sept., 4;
Reflections on Matisse, on Henri Matisse: A Retrospective at MOMA, Nov., 5;
Aesthetics & ideology in “The Great Utopia,” on The Great Utopia: The Russian & Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915-1932 at the Guggenheim Museum, Dec., 5;
Mary McCarthy & company, on Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy & Her World by Carol Brightman, Jan., 5;
Poetry & the silencing of art, on Can Poetry Matter? by Dana Gioia, Feb., 4;
Clement Greenberg & the Cold War, on Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays & Criticism, volumes 3 & 4 edited by John O’Brian, Mar., 4;
Endangered tradition, a review of The Rise & Fall of the Man of Letters by John Gross (BOOKS), Mar., 76;
Henry James & the life of art, Apr., 5;
Reply to John O’Brian (Letter), May, 80;
Myths of the Fifties, on The Fifties by David Halberstam, June, 5

Lewis, Tess

Shorter notice of On Clowns & October, 8 O’Clock by Norman Manea (BOOKS), Oct., 76;
Seasons of belief, a review of What Remains & The Author’s Dimension by Christa Wolf (BOOKS), Apr., 74

Lipman, Samuel

The cry from the orchestras, on The Financial Condition of Symphony Orchestras, a report by the American Symphony Orchestra League, Sept., 23;
On seeing “Capriccio,” on the PBS telecast of the Richard Strauss opera (MUSIC), Nov., 42;
The new empty Glass, on Philip Glass’s opera The Voyage at the Met (MUSIC), Dec., 38;
Music “Behind the Scenes,” on the PBS arts education series (NOTEBOOK), Jan., 77;
Mitsuko Uchida at Carnegie Hall (MUSIC), Feb., 49;
Leon Botstein attempts to save music (MUSIC), Apr., 44;
To Washington by moonbeam, a review of Leaving Town Alive by John Frohnmayer (BOOKS), June, 76

Logan, William

After a line by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Poem), Oct., 44

Lyons, Donald

On the superiority of European methods, on Lermontov’s Bal masque at the Comédie Française & other European productions (THEATER), Sept., 59;
Sex, the Sixties & Camille Paglia, on Sex, Art & American Culture by Camille Paglia, Oct., 37;
Aeschylus in Brooklyn, on Ariane Mnouchkine’s Les Atrides at the Park Slope Armory (THEATER), Nov., 53;
Theater of academe, on David Mamet’s Oleanna & Simon Gray’s The Holy Terror (THEATER), Dec., 48;
Doing it wrong, on the National Actors Theatre production of The Seagull & other plays (THEATER), Jan., 53;
Catullus: the poet as lover & scourge, a review of Catullus by Charles Martin (BOOKS), Feb., 56;
Saints & sinners, on revivals of O’Neill’s Anna Christie & Shaw’s Saint Joan (THEATER), Mar., 56;
Shelley, Shaw & Broadway, on revivals of The Cenci & Candida & other plays (THEATER), May, 45;
The trouble with “Angels,” on Angels in America, Bergman’s Peer Gynt & three one-acts by Thornton Wilder (THEATER), June, 56

McCann, Kathleen

From the Tiger’s claw, on the Romantic in painting, Oct., 28

Mac Donald, Heather

Anti-familiar essays, a review of No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays by Ellen Willis (BOOKS), Jan., 69

Mallon, Thomas

Scrappy days, a review of H. L. Mencken: My Life as Author & Editor edited by Jonathan Yardley (BOOKS), Jan., 73

Mansfield, Harvey C.

The great Edmund Burke, on The Great Melody by Conor Cruise O’Brien, Nov., 8

Meyers, Jeffrey

Resentful parasite, a review of Reflections on James Joyce: Stuart Gilbert’s Paris Journal (BOOKS), May, 68

Montale, Eugenio

“Scendendo qualche volta . . .” (Poem), in Italian, with facing translation, “At times, climbing down . . .” by William Arrowsmith, June, 39;
“Giunge a volte, repente . . .” (Poem), in Italian, with facing translation, “Suddenly, at times, there comes . . .” by William Arrowsmith, June, 42;
Incontro (Poem), in Italian, with facing translation, Encounter, by William Arrowsmith, June, 44

Murray-Brown, Jeremy

A footnote to Yalta, Oct., 20;
Shorter notice of Cinema & Soviet Society, 1917-1953 by Peter Kenez (BOOKS), Nov., 78

Nims, John Frederick

Julianne-julienne (Poem), Dec., 37

Norris, Leslie

Bridal Veil Falls, early winter (Poem), Jan., 39

Notes & Comments

Post-Soviet denials, on I. F. Stone’s alleged links to the KGB, Sept., 1;
“Illiberal Education,” on Dinesh D’Souza’s book (René Wellek), Sept., 3;
The Dutch bid a tearful farewell to art welfare, on changes in Holland’s state arts funding, Oct., 1;
John Cage, 1912-1992, Oct., 2;
Allan Bloom, 1930-1992, Nov., 1;
Post-Soviet denials (continued), on the “absolution” of Alger Hiss, Dec., 1;
Recordings by the million, on the classical-music holdings of the former Soviet archives, Dec., 3;
Mrs. Cheney’s departure, on Lynne V. Cheney’s resignation as chairman of the NEH, Jan., 1;
Lincoln Center (continued), on Jane Moss, the Center’s new director of programming, Jan., 3;
Politics & sex at the MLA, on the 1992 presidential address by Houston A. Baker, Jr., Feb., 1;
The Hoving follies, on Making the Mummies Dance by Thomas Hoving, Feb., 3;
Matisse or Mapplethorpe: does it make any difference?, on Arthur Danto’s reflections on Matisse in The Nation, Mar., 1;
Do we exaggerate?, a catalogue of recent examples of politicized academic gibberish, Mar., 3;
The Sixties revolution & its legacy, on The Dream & the Nightmare by Myron Magnet, Apr., 1;
L’Affaire Derrida, on Jacques Derrida’s attempts to block publication of Richard Wolin’s book The Heidegger Controversy, May, 1;
Marian Anderson, 1897-1993, May, 3;
Is art free expression?, on a recent panel discussion on art and free speech at MOMA, June, 1;
Hegemony unmasked, on the MLA’s book Redrawing the Boundaries (James W. Tuttleton), June, 3

O’Brian, John

Clement Greenberg (Letter), May, 80

Ozick, Cynthia

What Henry James knew, on James’s The Awkward Age, Jan., 17

Penrose, James F.

The strange case of Charles Valentin Alkan (MUSIC), May, 49

Perl, Jed

Through a blighted landscape, on the paintings of Pat Adams & Shirley Jaffe (ART), Sept., 64;
Curators & Indians, on Art of the American Indian Frontier at the National Gallery of Art, Washington (ART), Oct., 53;
Chagall’s theater, on Marc Chagall & the Jewish Theater at the Guggenheim SoHo (ART), Nov., 46;
An American in Paris, on Ellsworth Kelly: The Years in France, 1948-1954 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington (ART), Jan., 46;
Getting emotional, on the paintings of Lisa Zwerling & Joan Snyder (ART), Feb., 52;
The gatherers, on assemblage (ART), Mar., 50;
From Tung Ch’i-ch’ang’s China to David Ross’s Manhattan, on The Century of Tung Ch’i-ch’ang at the Metropolitan Museum of Art & the 1993 Whitney Biennial (ART), Apr., 50;
Booked, on The American Livre de Peintre at the Grolier Club & other exhibitions of artists’ books (ART), May, 37;
What there was to see, on recent exhibitions of paintings by Joan Mitchell, Paul Resika & others (ART), June, 48

Petersen, Donald

Star teller (Poem), Sept., 42

Phillips, Robert

The Schwartz-Laughlin letters (Letter), June, 90

Prunty, Wyatt

Cousins, brothers, sisters (Poem), Jan., 41

Rand, Paul

Object lessons, a review of The Evolution of Useful Things by Henry Petroski (BOOKS), Feb., 68

Richman, Robert

Spaced out, a review of The Rabbiter’s Bounty & The Boys Who Stole the Funeral by Les Murray (BOOKS), Oct, 61;
Mute, gilded howling, a review of A Gilded Lapse of Time by Gjertrud Schnackenberg (BOOKS), Feb., 71;
Acquaintance of poets, a review of Their Ancient Glittering Eyes by Donald Hall (BOOKS), May, 73

Ricks, Christopher

Samuel Johnson in his letters, on The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volumes I-III, edited by Bruce Redford, Sept., 38

Rosenthal, Deborah

A transparent world: the notebooks of Paul Klee, Jan., 33

Rutenberg, Alan

Far & away, a review of Loneliness & Time by Mark Cocker (BOOKS), June, 81

Ryan, Fortune

Conducting culture at Bard (Letter), Sept., 88

Schmertz, Mildred F.

Disfiguring a landmark (The new Guggenheim “galaxy”: II), Sept., 8

Schwartz, Stephen

The tragedy of Yugoslavia (Letter), Oct., 78

Shaw, Robert B.

Old address book (Poem), Dec., 33;
Getting farsighted (Poem), Dec., 34

Shomer, Enid

Seeing cousins after many years (Poem), Nov., 38

Silber, John

Acne on the Left, lepers on the Right, a review of Politics by Other Means by David Bromwich (BOOKS), Nov., 58

Simon, John

Affirmative-action “Bartlett’s,” on Justin Kaplan’s edition of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, Nov., 23;
He said, she said, a review of The New York Public Library Book of 20th-Century American Quotations & The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 4th Edition (BOOKS), Jan., 67

Simpson, Louis

The Indian student (Poem), May, 33;
The poet’s pipe (Poem), May, 35

Sisson, C. H.

Shakespeare as shaman, a review of Shakespeare & the Goddess of Complete Being by Ted Hughes (BOOKS), Dec., 63

Skloot, Floyd

Currents (Poem), Feb., 47

Slavitt, David R.

Scordatura (Poem), Oct., 45

Solonche, J. R.

Over there (Poem), Feb., 44

Spiegelman, Willard

In memoriam: Howard Nemerov, 1920-1991 (NOTEBOOK), Dec., 76

Steele, Timothy

Anecdote of the sugar bowl (Poem), Nov., 40

Stepanchev, Stephen

A look at the moon (Poem), Feb., 45

Szarkowski, John

The magic begins, a review of Out of the Shadows: Herschel, Talbot & the Invention of Photography by Larry J. Schaaf (BOOKS), Dec., 66

Tanenhaus, Sam

Shorter notice of Left Letters: The Culture Wars of Mike Gold & Joseph Freeman by James D. Bloom (BOOKS), Oct., 75

Teachout, Terry

You don’t say, on Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities five years later (RECONSIDERATIONS), Jan., 57

Teichman, Jenny

Flights of the enchanter, a review of Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals by Iris Murdoch (BOOKS), Jan., 60;
The false philosophy of Peter Singer, Apr., 25;
Reply to Barry R. Gross & Ernest van den Haag (Letter), June, 89

Tillinghast, Richard

Reply to Stephen Schwartz (Letter), Oct., 79;
The way the petals fell (Poem), Dec., 31;
“They were as good as we were”: the stories of William Trevor, Feb., 10;
A politicized Plath, a review of The Haunting of Sylvia Plath by Jacqueline Rose (BOOKS), Mar., 74;
Top of the 11th, top of the order, a review of The Museum of Clear Ideas by Donald Hall (BOOKS), June, 84

Tuttleton, James W.

Twain’s brevities, a review of Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays edited by Louis J. Budd (BOOKS), Nov., 65;
Hemingway unbound, on Hemingway: A Life without Consequences by James R. Mellow, Dec., 23;
Back to the Sixties with Spindoctor Graff, on Beyond the Culture Wars by Gerald Graff, Mar., 28;
Hegemony unmasked (NOTES & COMMENTS), June, 3;
Through a glass darkly, a review of A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki (BOOKS), June, 65

van den Haag, Ernest

Peter Singer (Letter), June, 88

Wade, Sidney

Serenade in faded green (Poem), Feb., 42

Weiner, Lauren

Metropolitan life: the novels of Dawn Powell, Feb., 33

Wellek, René

“Illiberal Education” (NOTES & COMMENTS), Sept., 3

Wilkin, Karen

Art after Warhol, a review of Beyond the Brillo Box by Arthur C. Danto (BOOKS), Oct., 57;
Two American Cubists, on Suzy Frelinghuysen & George L. K. Morris at the Williams College Museum of Art (ART), Nov., 49;
Lo Spagnoletto: Jusepe de Ribera at the Met, Dec., 17;
Exhibition note on Masterworks from the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (ART), Jan., 50;
Forever young: Frédéric Bazille, on Frédéric Bazille: Prophet of Impressionism at the Brooklyn Museum, Feb., 28;
From the workshop of Torres-Garcãa, on El Taller Torres-Garcãa: The School of the South & Its Legacy at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Apr., 17;
Honoré Daumier: public & private, on Daumier Drawings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, June, 21

Williamson, Greg

A form of fulfillment (Poem), May, 36 Winegarten, Renee Camus today, Mar., 35;
Improbable friendship, a review of Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence (BOOKS), May, 62

Wiseman, Carter

Prerogatives of genius, a review of Frank Lloyd Wright by Meryle Secrest (BOOKS), Nov., 69;
Shorter notice of Bernard Maybeck: Visionary Architect by Sally B. Woodbridge (BOOKS), Feb., 79

Wojahn, David