The New Criterion

Helprin, Mark

• An apparition of the Villa Doria Pamphili, Nov., 34

Himmelfarb, Gertrude Marriage & morals among the Victorians, Nov., 7;

Hofstadter, Dan

• A love of ruins: the art of Philip Pearlstein (ART), Dec., 50
• Painter-prince: the return of Anders Zorn, Jan., 26;
• The brevity of Juan Gris (ART), Feb.. 43;
• Paula Modersohn-Becker: artist into icon, Apr., 35

Hughes, Dorthy B.

• Hammett, a review of Hammet by William F. Nolan & Dashiell Hammett by Diane Johnson (BOOKS), Dec., 73

Johnson, Paul

• Tuchman’s folly, a review of The March of Folly by Barbara W. Tuchman (BOOKS), May, 73

Jones, Marnie

• Artful lying: novelists as biographers, Feb., 31

Jordy, William H.

• Aedicular modern: the architecture of Michael Graves (ARCHITECTURE), Oct., 43;
• The “big picture” in Philadelphia, on Design Since 1945 at the Philadephia Museum (DESIGN), Jan. . 47

Katz, Alex

• Fairfield Porter (Letter), Nov., 91

Kenyon, Jane

• High water (Poem), May, 50;
• Alone for a week (Poem), May, 51;
• Drink, eat, sleep (Poem), May, 52

Kimball, Roger

• Is life worth living?, a review of A Stroll with William James by Jacques Barzun (BOOKS), Oct., 70;
• Frank Stella at Harvard (The Norton Lectures) (NOTEBOOK), Dec., 86;
• Philosophizing at the Boston-Sheraton, on the meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division (NOTEBOOK), Feb., 81;
• From Kant to cant, a review of The Culture of Time & Space: 1880-1918 by Stephen Kern (BOOKS), Mar., 76

Knight, Christopher

• The emergence of MOCA: a new museum for Los Angeles, Apr., 6

Koch, Stephen

• The secret Kafka, Jan., 19

Kramer, Hilton

• “Partisan Review”: down the memory hole, Sept.. 1;
• The Malcolm Morley retrospective (ART), Sept., 71;
• The return of the nativist, on Grant Wood at the Whitney (ART), Oct., 58;
• Criticism endowed: reflections on a debacle, on the NEA fellowships for art critics, Nov., 1;
• Reply to John Yau (Letter), Nov., 92;
• Bloomsbury idols, on the revival of interest in the Bloomsbury Group, Jan., 1;
• The MLA centennial follies, Feb., 1;
• Waiting for Kynaston: an art chronicle, Mar., 1;
• Reply to Kenneth S. Friedman, Peter Plagens & Douglas Davis (Letter), Mar., 87;
• Professor Howe’s prescriptions, on Excellence: Theory & Practice in the Humanities, a speech by Irving Howe at the New York Public Library, Apr., 1;
• Turning back the clock: art & politics in 1984 (ART), Apr., 68;
• Bonnard in Paris, May, 1;
• Reproductions for the plebes: the Banfield proposal, on The Democratic Muse by Edward C. Banfield, June, 1;
• Reply to Helen Vendler (Letter), June, 96

Kramer, Mimi

• In search of the good Shepard, on True West, Fool for Love & other plays by Sam Shepard (THEATER), Oct., 51;
• ’morning, Marsha, on Marsha Norman’s ’night, Mother (THEATER), Nov., 56;
• Without feathers, on La Cage aux folles on Broadway (THEATER), Dec., 62;
• Marilyn, my Marilyn, on the musical Marilyn: An American Fable (THEATER), Jan., 57;
• Tennessee Williams & the fiddle in the wings, on the John Dexter production of The Glass Menagerie (THEATER), Feb., 52;
• The American Stoppard, more on Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing (THEATER), Mar., 50;
• Broadway goes to school, on Shirley Lauro’s Open Admissions (THEATER), Apr., 75;
• Que Seurat Seurat, on Sondheim & Lapine’s Sunday in the Park with George (THEATER), May, p.
• The greatest salesman of them all, on Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman & David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross (THEATER), June, 58

Kuryluk, Ewa

• Annals of the Polish avant-garde, on Présences Polonaises in Paris (NOTEBOOK), Oct. . 85

Lehman, David

• Hastening the decline of grammar, on Geoffrey Nunberg’s The Decline of Grammar in The Atlantic Monthly (NOTEBOOK), May, 82

Leithauser, Brad

• The fixed moment: the poetry of L.E. Sissman, Oct., 36
• Irresistible nobility, a review of The Aeneid of Virgil translated from the Latin by Robert Fitzgerald (BOOKS), Jan., 67;
• Floating light in Tokyo (Poem), Apr., 63

Lipman, Samuel

• The Philharmonic’s new horizons, Sept., 43;
• Funding the arts: who decides?, Oct., 1;
• The other Mahler, a review of Alma Mahler, Muse to Genius by Karen Monson (BOOKS), Nov., 64;
• To teach the administrators art (NOTEBOOK), Dec., 89;
• Music in partibus infidelium (The MLA centennial follies, Part 6, Feb., 9;
• Marilyn Horne’s great American songbook (NOTEBOOK), Feb., 85;
• Growing up with old records, Apr., 11;
• A note from the publisher, on the banning of Mimi Kramer from the “Third Night Press List” of the League of New York Theaters & Producers (THEATER), May, 65;
• Mme Pierre Monteux (NOTEBOOK), May, 88;
• The case of Ivo Pogorelich (MUSIC), June, 52

Lord, James

• Balthus: the curious case of the Count de Rola, Dec., 9

Marks, Emerson R.

• The spoken word (Letter), Jan., 33

Mellow, James R.

• Victorian love affair, a review of Austin & Mabel: The Amherst Affair & Love Letters of Austin Dickinson & Mabel Loomis Todd edited by Polly Longsworth (BOOKS), May, 78

Montale, Eugenio

• Per album (Poem) in Italian, with facing translation, For an album, by Jonathan Galassi, June. 46;
• L’evoluzione biologica . . . (Poem) in Italian, with facing translation, Biological evolution . . ., by Jonathan Galassi, June, 46;
• La vita in prosa (Poem) in Italian, with facing translation, La vie en prose, by Jonathan Galassi, June, 48;
• Non occorrono tempi lunghi (Poem) in Italian, with facing translation, It doesn’t take a long time, by Jonathan Galassi, June, 48

Nieman, Tom

• A passionate critic, a review of The Air-Line to Seattle by Kenneth S. Lynn (BOOKS), Feb., 74

Nisbet, Robert

• Goodbye to all that, a review of A Personal History by A. J. P. Taylor (BOOKS), Jan., 74

Ozick, Cynthia

• Cyril Connolly & the groans of success, Mar., 21

Paul, David

• The two Flauberts, Sept., 54;
• Reply to Francis Steegmuller (Letter), Nov., 91;
• Meandering with Montaigne, a review of Montaigne’s Travel Journal translated from the French by Donald M. Frame (BOOKS), Mar., 70;
• Relativities: pages from a notebook, May, 31

Paulin, Tom

• Do letters kill?, a review of A Colder Eye: The Modern Irish Writers by Hugh Kenner (BOOKS), Nov., 82;
• Reply to Emerson R. Marks (Letter), Jan., 83

Percy, Walker

• Herman Melville, Nov., 39

Perl, Jed

• Art & urbanity: the Manet retrospective (ART), Nov., 43;
• Picasso’s finale, on Picasso: The Last Years, 1963-1973 at the Guggenheim, Mar., 28;
• Balthus in New York, May, 7

Petersen, Donald

• Certain vers librists (Poem), Apr., 65;
• Clearing the shelf (Poem), Apr., 66;
• Unity in distress (Poem), May, 48;
• The moon man (Poem), May, 49

Plagens, Peter

• Art criticism (Letter), Mar., 85

Resnikova, Eva

• The mystery of Terpsichore: Balanchine, Stravinsky & “Apollo,” Sept., 22

Resnikova, Eva

• Balanchine musagète, a review of Balanchine’s Ballerinas by Robert Tracy, with Sharon DeLano (BOOKS), Feb., 70

Richman, Robert

• The case of Roy Campbell, Sept., 29;
• Two poets, a review of The Kingfisher by Amy Clampitt & The Sacrifice by Frank Bidart (BOOKS), Nov., 72;
• Auden remembered (NOTEBOOK), Dec.. 92;
• “The battle it was born to lose”: the poetry of Geoffrey Hill, Apr., 22

Rudikoff, Sonya

• Forster in letters, a review of Selected Letters of E. M. Forster, Vol. I edited by Mary Lago & P. N. Furbank (BOOKS), Jan., 70

Salander, Lawrence B.

• Clement Greenberg (Letter), Jan.. 83

Schwabsky, Barry

• Semiotics & murder, a review of The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (BOOKS), Sept., 79

Selden, Ruth

• Heinrich von Kleist (Letter), Mar., 88

Sisson, C. H.

• The broken willow (Poem), May, 53

Sisson, C. H.

• The otter (Poem), May, 54

Smith, Patrick J.

• Messiaen at the Opéra (MUSIC), Feb. . 58

Smith, William Jay

• Introduction to Thorkild Bjørnvig’s “The Pact: My Friendship with Isak Dinesen,” Oct.  15

Sonnenberg, Ben

• Philosophy as/and/of literature (Letter), Mar., 88

Stankiewicz, Andrzej J.

• Poetry & power (Letter), Dec. . 95

Stark, Andy

• Talking politics, talking art, on The Political Content of Art, a symposium at the School for Visual Arts (NOTEBOOK), Jan., 79

Steegmuller, Francis

• Flaubert (Letter), Nov., 91

Taliaferro, Frances

• Who is Gabriel Fielding?, Nov., 18

Thaw, E. V.

• Pursuing the marginal, a review of The Forger’s Art edited by Denis Dutton (BOOKS), Oct.  74

Tolstoy, Nikolai

• Saying no to life, a review of Tolstoy & Gandhi, Men of Peace by Martin Green (BOOKS), Dec., 67

Vendler, Helen

• Name-calling (Letter), June, 94

Wagoner, David

• Coming home late with the bad young man (Poem), June, 50
• On motel walls (Poem), June, 51

Wellek, René

• Destroying literary studies, Dec., 1
• Trial & tribulation, a review of Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1849-1859 by Joseph Frank (BOOKS), Feb., 77;
• Dostoevsky’s carnival, a review of Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics by Mikhail Bakhtin (BOOKS), June, 89

Williams, Norman

• First skaters, Perkins Pier (Poem), May . 55

Yau, John

• Malcolm Morley (Letter), Nov., 92

Young, Vernon

• The skin of his teeth, a review of The Enthusiast: A Life of Thornton Wilder by Gilbert A. Harrison (BOOKS), Jan., 61;
• The bells of Calanda, a review of My Last Sigh: The Autobiography of Luis Buñuel (BOOKS), Feb., 64;
• Sailing toward Poland, a review of Joseph Conrad: The Three Lives by Frederick R. Karl & Joseph Conrad: A Chronicle by Zdzislaw Najder (BOOKS), June, 82