The New Criterion

Volume 3

September 1984 – June 1985

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Abel, Lionel

• A critic without a country, a review of An American Procession by Alfred Kazin (BOOKS), Oct., 81

Aitchison, James

• Notes from the hill (Poem), Feb., 44

Auchincloss, Louis

• “My dear blest Percy!” on Percy Lubbock (NOTEBOOK), May, 83

Baumann, Fred

• Jackson in the age of biography, a review of Andrew Jackson & the Course of American Democracy: 1833–1845 by Robert V. Remini (BOOKS), May, 69

Bawer, Bruce

• “A certain air of seriousness,” on the PBS book–discussion series First Edition (NOTEBOOK), Sept., 88;
• The “Pushcart Prize” story, on Bill Henderson & the Pushcart Press, Oct., 26;
• John Hawkes's fan club, a review of Humors of Blood & Skin: A John Hawkes Reader (BOOKS), Nov., 70;
• Guy Davenport: fiction à la Fourier, Dec., 8;
• The Eliot riddle, a review of T. S. Eliot: A Life by Peter Ackroyd (BOOKS), Jan., 55;
• The phenomenon of Allen Ginsberg, Feb., 1;
• Obsessed with poetry, a review of Letters of Delmore Schwartz edited by Robert Phillips & Randall Jarrell's Letters edited by Mary Jarrell (BOOKS), Mar., 65;
• Reply to Patrick O'Donnell (Letter), Mar., 91;
• Don DeLillo's America, Apr., 34;
• Louise Bogan's angry solitude, May, 25;
• Capote's children, June, 39

Berman, Ethel

• Lillian Hellman (Letter), Jan., 85

Blumenthal, Michael

• Winter solstice, 1983 (Poem), Jan., 37

Brooks, Cleanth

• William Empson: a tribute (NOTEBOOK), Sept., 84

Brown, Frederick

• Zola & Cézanne: the early years, Dec., 15

Buckland, Gail

• Photography & architecture: notes on a conference, on Photography & Architecture 1839 to the Present Day, a symposium at the National Gallery of Canada (PHOTOGRAPHY), Mar., 57

Cantor, Norman

• The real crisis in the humanities today, June, 28

Carswell, John

• Ivy Litvinov (Letter), Jan., 87

Chomsky, Noam

• Censorship & “20th–Century Culture” (Letter), Jan., 81

Conquest, Robert

• Ehrenburg's life, a review of Ilya Ehrenburg by Anatol Goldberg (BOOKS), Jan., 62

Coulette, Henri

• Correspondence (Poem), Jan., 34;
• Postscript (Poem), Jan., 35

Davis, Robert Gorham

• Stalinism then & now: an exchange (with Hilton Kramer), Nov., 1

Davison, Peter

• The face in the field (Poem), May, 38

Dempsey, Charles

• Christ made male, a review of The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art & in Modern Oblivion by Leo Steinberg (BOOKS), Dec., 71

Di Piero, W. S.

• The divine (Poem), May, 40

Disch, Thomas M.

• Apologia pro arte sua, a review of Selected Poems 1950–1982 by Kenneth Koch (BOOKS), May, 79

Downs, Rackstraw

• Henri Rousseau & the idea of the naïve, May, 15

Epstein, Joseph

• Henry James: assailed by the perceptions, on James in his letters, Nov., 30;
• The outrageous Mr. Wu, on Evelyn Waugh, Apr., 9

Gardner, James

• The eternal note of Salvatore Quasimodo, a review of Quasimodo's Complete Poems translated from the Italian by Jack Bevan (BOOKS), 1 June, 85

Geist, Sidney

• Cézanne's watercolors, Jan., 14

Gibson, Eric

• An Australian accent?, on new Australian painters at P.S. 1 (ART), Sept., 60;
• American still life (ART), Oct., 70;
• The art of George McNeil (ART), Nov., 57;
• Brice Marden's abstraction (ART), Dec., 62;
• The minimal & the magical, on the sculpture of Joel Shapiro & the collages of Romare Bearden (ART), Jan., 42;
• The Borofsky spectacle, on Jonathan Borofsky at the Whitney (ART), Feb., 70;
• The real Robert Morris? (ART), Mar., 55;
• Thinking about the Seventies, on Corrine Robbins's book The Pluralist Era: America Art 1968–1981 & the Hudson River Museum's exhibition A New Beginning: 1968–1978 (ART), May, 45;
• Expressionisms, on Francesco Clemente & others (ART), June, 66

Gilbert, Creighton

• Edgar Wind as man & thinker, Oct., 36;
• A printmaker & his themes, a review of The Prints of Lucas van Leyden & His Contemporaries by Ellen S. Jacobowitz & Stephanie L. Stepanek (BOOKS), Dec., 65;
• The small–scale paintings of Cavallino (ART), Feb., 66;
• Caravaggio & all the others, on The Age of Caravaggio at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (ART), Apr., 56

Greer, Herb

• Stodgy pudding, a review of English Journey by J.B. Priestley & English Journey by Beryl Bainbridge (BOOKS), Feb., 78;
• Welfare running dry, on cutbacks in British government support of the arts (LETTER FROM LONDON), May, 49

Grundberg, Andy

• Ansel Adams: the politics of natural space (PHOTOGRAPHY), Nov., 48;

Hall, Donald

• Deprivation's laureate, a review of Required Writing by Philip Larkin (BOOKS), Sept., 73;
• Merle Slocum's .22 (Poem), June, 57

Hall, Lee

• The passions of Hilla Rebay, a review of Hilla Rebay by Joan M. Lukach (BOOKS), Oct., 76

Hofstadter, Dan

• Millet in Boston, Sept., 34;
• The Beckmann retrospective: the early work, Oct., 17;
• Max Beckmann: the later work, Nov., 22

Jordy, William H.

• The Renaissance in New York: the buildings of McKim, Mead & White (ARCHITECTURE), Oct., 49;
• Robert Venturi & the decorated shed (ARCHITECTURE), May, 58;

Justice, Donald

• Children walking home from school through good neighborhood (Poem), Oct., 43;
• Villanelle at sundown (Poem), Feb., 41;
• American scenes (1904) (Poem), Feb., 42

Kenney, Richard

• Inertia (Poem), Nov., 46

Kenyon, Jane

• The painters (Poem), Oct., 44;
• The visit (Poem), Jan., 38;
• Sick at summer's end (Poem), Jan., 39;
• November calf (Poem), Jan., 40;
• After travelling (Poem), May, 37

Kimball, Roger

• Art & mystery, a review of The Arts without Mystery by Denis Donoghue (BOOKS), Sept., 76;
• The prosaic modern age, a review of In the Age of Prose: Literary & Philosophical Essays by Erich Heller (BOOKS), Nov., 78;
• “Art” for the Eighties?, on the Art for the '80s seminars at New York University (NOTEBOOK), Dec., 83;
• The sins of the father, a review of Home Before Dark: A Biographical Memoir of John Cheever by Susan Cheever (BOOKS), Feb., 73;
• The Motherwell retrospective, Mar., 31;
• Schopenhauer's world, a review of The Philosophy of Schopenhauer by Bryan Magee (BOOKS), Apr., 83;
• Heidegger at Freiburg, 1933, June, 9

Kramer, Hilton

• Who was Josephine Herbst?, Sept., 1;
• The life & death of Lillian Hellman, Oct., 1;
• Stalinism then & now: an exchange (with Robert Gorham Davis), Nov., 1;
• The “Primitivism” conundrum, on Primitivism in 20th–Century Art at MOMA, Dec., 1;
• Reply to Charles Turner & Ethel Berman (Letter), Jan., 85;
• A catalogue raisonné for Arthur Dove, Feb., 34;
• T. J. Clark & the Marxist critique of modern painting, Mar., 1;
• Kandinsky in Paris, Apr., 1;
• Marc Chagall, 1887–1985, May, 1;
• Reply to Ann Lee Morgan (Letter), May, 88

Kramer, Mimi

• Making something out of nothing, on David Rabe's Hurlyburly (THEATER), Sept., 50;
• Whoring after self–respect, a review of Class by Paul Fussell (BOOKS), Sept., 64;
• A winter's tale, on Ted Tally's Terra Nova (THEATER), Oct., 62;
• Reactionary Papp, on the Joseph Papp Henry V (THEATER), Nov., 61;
• What's so great about the RSC?, on the Royal Shakespeare Company in New York (THEATER), Dec., 52;
• Making Whoopi, on Whoopi Goldberg on Broadway (THEATER), Jan., 49;
• Stalemate in Cambridge, on the Robert Brustein/ American Repertory Theater production of Samuel Beckett's Endgame (THEATER), Feb., 52;
• Kundera & his master, on Milan Kundera's Jacques & His Master (THEATER), Mar., 46;
• Performance pieces, on State of Mind/State of the Union, a “performance piece” by Political Art Documentation/Distribution (NOTEBOOK), Mar., 80;
• Semi–detached theater, a Broadway round–up (THEATER), Apr., 62;
• The comic dance, on Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues & other comedies (THEATER), June, 72

Kuryluk, Ewa

• Vienna in Venice, on Vienna in the Age of the Secession, 1885–1918 at the Palazzo Grassi (ART), Sept., 55

Leithauser, Brad

• A noisy sleeper (Poem), May, 33;
• A noisy sleeper (Poem), May, 33;
• At Greg's (Poem), June, 59

Lipman, Samuel

• Ivy Litvinov: the commissar's wife, Sept., 15;
• Cultural policy: whither America, whither government?, Nov., 7;
• Stravinsky's “Rake,” City Opera's progress (MUSIC), Nov., 53;
• Pops in Portland, “Elektra” in San Francisco (MUSIC), Dec., 47;
• Copland's world, Jan., 1;
• Steinway on the block, on CBS 's decision to sell its Steinway & Sons pianomaking subsidiary (NOTEBOOK), Jan., 75;
• Reply to John Carswell (Letter), Jan., 88;
• “Einstein”'s long march to Brooklyn, on Philip Glass & Robert Wilson's Einstein on the Beach at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Feb., 15;
• Live from the Met, on the Metropolitan Opera telecasts (MUSIC), Apr., 47;
• Jarrett joins the Bach parade (MUSIC), May, 41;
• Lenny on our minds, on Leonard Bernstein, June, 1

Logan, William

• To the honourable committee (Poem), Apr., 45

Lord, James

• Sartre & Giacometti: words between friends, June, 45

Mack, Dana

• The new Berio–Calvino opera (Un Re in ascolto) (LETTER FROM SALZBURG), Feb., 47

Mariani, Paul

• Cleaning out the cellar (Poem), Nov., 42

Morgan, Ann Lee

• Arthur Dove (Letter), May, 87

Morris, Herbert

• Sackets Harbor, 1866 (Poem), Sept., 41;
• Boardwalk (Poem), Dec., 37

Norris, Leslie

• The hawk climbs (Poem), Nov., 44;
• Hudson's geese (Poem), Mar., 44;

O'Donnell, Patrick

• John Hawkes's fan club (Letter), Mar., 90

Paramonov, Boris

• Margaret Mitchell in the Soviet Union translated from the Russian by Jane Bobko, Jan., 7

Pasternak, Alexander

• Summer at Obolenskoye translated from the Russian by Anne Pasternak Slater, Mar., 9

Paul, David

• Avant–garde assortment, a review of The Innocent Eye by Roger Shattuck (BOOKS), Apr., 71

Perl, Jed

• Watteau in Washington, Sept., 27;
• Photography & art, a review of American Photography: A Critical History 1945 to the Present by Jonathan Green (BOOKS), Oct., 87;
• Van Gogh at the Met, Dec., 30;
• On collecting (NOTEBOOK), Jan.,
• Reply to Sir Francis Watson (Letter), Jan., 86;
• Dufy among the pattern painters, Feb., 25;
• The representational impulse: painting in New York 1960–1985, on Nine Realist Painters Revisited: 1963–1984 at the Schoelkopf Gallery, Apr., 20;
• Correction (Letter), May, 87;
• Matisse, June, 19;
• Art & April in New York, a gallery round–up (ART), June, 64

Petersen, Donald

• Early & late (Poem), Oct., 45

Porter, Peter

• Does a rake go to a brothel to sing? (Poem), Oct., 46

Resnikova, Eva

• An American “Giselle,” by the Dance Theatre of Harlem (DANCE), Feb., 62

Richman, Robert

• A public poet, a review of Children in Exile by James Fenton (BOOKS), Sept., 80;
• Finding a voice, a review of Each Leaf Shines Separate by Rosanna Warren (BOOKS), Nov., 83;
• Who's afraid of Tom Wolfe?, on a Tom Wolfe lecture on modern art sponsored by the Whitney (NOTEBOOK), Jan., 78;
• A crow for the Queen, on the appointment of Ted Hughes as England's Poet Laureate (NOTEBOOK), Feb., 90

Rudikoff, Sonya

• Fitzgerald tales, a review of Invented Lives: F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald by James R. Mellow (BOOKS), Feb., 83;
• The deeds & words of Ivy Compton–Burnett, a review of Ivy by Hilary Spurling (BOOKS), Apr., 75

Rumens, Carol

• In Westgate Garden (Poem), Jan., 36

Sampson, Geoffrey

• Censoring “20th–Century Culture”: the case of Noam Chomsky, Oct., 7;
• Reply to Noam Chomsky (Letter), Jan., 84

Shapiro, Alan

• Vine (Poem), June, 56

Shaw, Peter

• Civilization & its malcontents: responses to “Typee,” Jan., 23

Spires, Elizabeth

• Two shadows (Poem), Apr., 43;
• Street scene (Poem), Apr., 44

Stevens, Mark

• Learning from Leavis, Nov., 16

Thaw, E. V.

• A forgotten Golden Age, on Danish Painting in Washington, DC, (ART), Jan., 46

Turner, Charles

• Lillian Hellman (Letter), Jan., 84

Tuttleton, James W.

• The American Corinne, a review of The Letters of Margaret Fuller edited by Robert N. Hudspeth (BOOKS), Dec., 68;
• Hawthorne's “secret,” a review of Hawthorne's Secret: An Un–Told Tale by Philip Young (BOOKS), Jan., 66;
• American literary radicalism in the Twenties, Mar., 16;
• Reply to Philip Young (Letter), Mar., 89;
• The adventures of Martin Green, May, 7

Ulmer, James

• Ease (Poem), Mar., 41;
• Daily bread (Poem), Mar., 42

Watson, Sir Francis

• Watteau in Washington (Letter), Jan., 85

Wellek, René

• Literary modern?, a review of A Genealogy of Modernism by Michael H. Levenson (BOOKS), May, 76;
• Humanist & scholar, a review of Tributes: Interpreters of our Cultural Tradition by E. H. Gombrich (BOOKS), Dec., 79;
• Empson the moralist, a review of Using Biography by William Empson (BOOKS), June, 88;

Young, Philip

• Hippique Buddha, a review of The Confessions of a Harvard Man by Harold Stearns (BOOKS), Dec., 77;
• Hawthorne's secret (Letter), 7, Mar., 89

Young, Vernon

• Strindberg's ghosts, a review of August Strindberg by Olof Lagercrantz (BOOKS), Mar., 71

Zilles, Luke

• A question (Poem), Mar., 43