The New Criterion

Volume 5 September 1986 – June 1987

• The mystery of genius, a review of A Ringing Glass: The Life of Rainer Maria Rilke by Donald Prater (BOOKS), Jan., 70;
• Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986, Oct., 16;

Gibson, Eric

• The Cones of Baltimore, on the biography Dr. Claribel & Miss Etta by Brenda Richardson (ART), Oct., 59;
• Homer & Sargent: Yankee honesty vs. cosmopolitan flair (ART), Feb., 58;
• Was Minimalist art a political movement?, on The Crux of Minimalism, a symposium at the School of Visual Arts (ART), May, 59;

Gilbert, Creighton

• Frits Lugt: a life in looking, Sept., 29;
• Little bronzes from Vienna, on Renaissance Master Bronzes from the Collection of the Kunst-historisches Museum in Washington, D.C. (ART), Nov., 62;
• High art from the desert, on Treasures of the Holy Land: Ancient Art from the Israel Museum at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (ART), Jan., 54;
• In Correggio country, on The Age of Correggio & the Carracci in Washington, D.C. (ART), May, 53;

Gress, David

• The fall of the idols, on the cultural life of postwar France, Dec., 10;
• Diagnosis of a “Kulturkampf,” on The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom, May, 24;

Grossman, Florence

• Wildflowers (Poem), Nov., 50;

Griffin, Walter

• Windfalls (Poem), Nov., 51;
• Planting bulbs in September (Poem), June, 39;

Hall, Donald

• The hardened reviewer, a review of The Complete Prose of Marianne Moore edited by Patricia Willis (BOOKS), Apr., 63;
• Words over Amos (Poem), June, 32;
• Waking the next morning (Poem), June, 33;

Hilton, Tim

• Frank Stella’s crisis, a review of Working Space by Frank Stella (BOOKS), Feb., 69

Hofstadter, Dan

• Sacred monster, on Ingres, Jan., 17;
• Van Gogh in Saint-Rémy & Auvers (ART), Mar., 53;

Holt, James C.

• Platonic relationships, a review of Acastos: Two Platonic Dialogues by Iris Murdoch (BOOKS), May, 81

Hooker, Gertrude S.

• Translating Montale (Letter), Feb., 83

Hudgins, Andrew

• Almost in love (Poem), Apr., 38;

Jordy, William H.

• The Machine Age revisited, on The Machine Age in America, 1918-1941 at the Brooklyn Museum (DESIGN) Feb., 44;
• Henry-Russell Hitchcock, 1903-1987 (NOTEBOOK), Apr., 79

Justice, Donald

• After school practice: a short story (Poem), Oct., 50;

Kendall, Elizabeth

• Mark Morris Superstar (Letter), Apr., 82

Kenyon, Jane

• September garden party (Poem), May, 46;
• After the dinner party (Poem), May, 47;
• Summer in the suburbs: 6:00 A.M. (Poem), May, 48;
• Letter to Alice (Poem), May, 50;

Ketcham, Diana

• “I am a whore”: Philip Johnson at eighty (ARCHITECTURE), Dec., 57;

Kimball, Roger

• Becoming Elias Canetti, Sept., 17;
• Art & architecture at the Equitable Center, Nov., 24;
• Academic selves, a review of Reconstructing Individualism edited by Thomas C. Heller, Morton Sosna, David E. Wellbery, et al. (BOOKS), Dec., 83;
• Sundays in the dark with the Whitney, on the lecture series Sundays at Six: Issues in Contemporary Art (NOTEBOOK), Jan., 83;
• Architecture redux, a review of Architecture, Anyone? by Ada Louise Huxtable (BOOKS), Mar., 70;
• Mountain mystifications, a review of The Spell by Hermann Broch (BOOKS), Apr., 73;
• Sartre resartus, a review of Sartre: A Life by Annie Cohen-Solal (BOOKS), May, 72;

Kramer, Hilton

• The two Henry Moores, Oct., 1;
• Clement Greenberg in the Forties, Jan., 1;
• The lowdown on Richard Gilman, Feb., 1;
• The Met’s 20th-century folly, on the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mar., 1;
• On the “Spiritual in Art” in Los Angeles, on The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985, Apr., 1;
• Reply to Helene MacLean (Letter), Apr., 88;
• The death of Andy Warhol, May, 1;
• The new Women’s museum in Washington, June, 1;

Kramer, Mimi

• Beyond method acting, on the Jonathan Miller Long Day’s Journey into Night & other matters (THEATER), Sept., 67

Laing, Alastair

• The Boucher exhibition (Letter), Sept., 92

Leithauser, Brad

• A peculiarly dark utopian: H. G. Wells, Nov., 13;

Leithauser, Brad

• The confinement of free verse, May, 4;

Levin, Phillis

• Rilke’s Nightfall (Poem), Oct., 51

Lipman, Samuel

• The pupils of Clara Schumann & the uses of tradition (MUSIC), Sept., 60;
• Zeroing in on Karajan (MUSIC), Oct., 52;
• The Met’s failed “Walküre” (MUSIC), Nov., 52;
• The Berlin Philharmonic without Karajan (MUSIC), Dec., 52;
• Reply to Jerrold Northrop Moore (Letter), Dec., 92;
• A dissent on Menotti (MUSIC), Jan., 49;
• Schnabel “redivivus,” on CD reissues of early Artur Schnabel recordings (MUSIC), Mar., 49;
• Sad thoughts on Walter Busterkeys, a.k.a. Liberace (MUSIC), Apr., 43;
• James Huneker & America’s musical coming-of-age, June, 4

Lord, James

• The Orsay experience, on the new Musée d’Orsay in Paris, Mar., 19

Mack, Dana

• Remembering Mischa Elman, Dec., 24;
• Thomas Bernhard (Letter), Apr., 88;

MacLean, Helene

• Religion & the intellectuals (Letter), Apr., 87

Martin, Charles

• On yielding to whim (Poem), Mar., 44

Millard, Charles W.

• Vulgarity, novelty & politics in contemporary art, Oct., 34

Miller, Stephen

• Vladimir Nabokov (Letter), May, 86

Moore, Jerrold Northrop

• Clara Schumann’s pupils (Letter), Dec., 91

Morris, Herbert

• Opera (Poem), Feb., 37;

Nims, John Frederick

• Water music (Poem),Sept., 48

Paul, David

• Doomed poet, a review of The Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire (BOOKS), Nov., 78;
• A voice outside (Poem), June, 40;
• Montana cat (Poem), June, 41;
• What have you done with your life? (Poem), June, 42

Perl, Jed

• The School of Paris revisited (ART), Sept., 52;
• Retro madness, on Carroll Dunham (ART), Oct., 67;
• The sketchbooks of Picasso (ART), Nov., 58;
• At the beginning of the season, on Rainer Fetting & others (ART), Dec., 65;
• Matisse: into the Twenties, on Henri Matisse: The Early Years in Nice, 1916-1930 in Washington, DC, Feb., 6;
• Jottings along the way, on Anne Truitt, Jonathan Silver & others (ART), Mar., 57;
• The pictures & passions of Leland Bell (ART), Apr., 57;
• Paul Klee now, June, 28;
• Jasper’s seasons, on Jasper Johns’s The Seasons (ART), June, 56;

Prescott, Theodore

• Professor Kuspit comes to rural Pennsylvania, on Donald Kuspit’s Weiner Lecture at Dickinson College (NOTEBOOK), June, 83;

Radosh, Ronald

• “But today the struggle”: Spain & the intellectuals, on anthologies of writing on the Spanish Civil War, Oct., 5;

Resnikova, Eva

• Naughty but nice, on Michael Clark & Company (DANCE), Dec., 71;
• Mark Morris Superstar (DANCE), Jan., 59;
• Grow old along with me!, on David Gordon & the Pick Up Company (DANCE), Feb., 53;
• Love American-style, on two new works by Peter Martins for the New York City Ballet (DANCE), Mar., 45;
• Innocents from abroad, on Maguy Marin’s Cinderella (DANCE), Apr., 55;
• Reply to Elizabeth Kendall, Barry Alterman, Charles France & Arlene Croce (Letter), Apr., 84;
• Rebel without a cause, on Eliot Feld & the Feld Ballet (DANCE), May, 65;
• Ground control, on the Laura Dean Dance Company (DANCE), June, 43;

Richman, Robert

• Unlike everyone else, a review of Less Than One by Joseph Brodsky (BOOKS), Sept., 84;
• The “monster” myth, a review of Robert Frost Himself by Stanley Burnshaw (BOOKS), Nov., 85;
• The poetry of Robert Bly, Dec., 37;
• Impatient faith, a review of Daily Horoscope by Dana Gioia (BOOKS), Feb., 71;

Rifkind, Donna

• Searching for Dorothy Parker, a review of The Late Mrs. Dorothy Parker by Leslie Frewin (BOOKS), Sept., 87;
• The other brothers, a review of Biography of Broken Fortunes: Wilkie & Bob, Brothers of William, Henry & Alice James by Jane Maher (BOOKS), Dec., 78;
• Worlds apart, on The Afternoon Sun by David Pryce-Jones & A Misalliance by Anita Brookner (FICTION CHRONICLE), Jan., 78;
• Keeping the Sabbath, a review of My Mother’s Sabbath Days by Chaim Grade (BOOKS), Feb., 74;
• Rothward bound, a review of The Counterlife by Philip Roth (BOOKS), Mar., 63;
• Casting away, a review of Foe by J. M. Coetzee (BOOKS), Apr., 66;
• Isn’t it romantic?, a review of Mary Shelley by Muriel Spark (BOOKS), June, 68;

Rosenstock, Laura

• Richard Serra (Letter), Sept., 91

Ruark, Gibbons

• Larkin (Poem), Jan., 47;
• At the graves in memory (Poem), June, 37;
• Wayside flowers on the Hazel Brae (Poem), June, 38

Schwartz, Stephen

• Tales from the other side, a review of The Opposing Shore by Julien Gracq (BOOKS), Mar., 73

Shapiro, Harvey

• Last things (Poem), Apr., 42;
• Curtains (Poem), Apr., 42;

Shlaes, Amity

• Thomas Bernhard & the German literary scene, Jan., 26

Simpson, Louis

• Another boring story (Poem), Dec., 50;
• Trouble (Poem), June, 34;

Slavitt, David R.

• An explanation of the dolby system (Poem), May, 51

Smith, William Jay

• The storm & all: a new look at Montale, a review of The Storm & Other Things by Eugenio Montale, translated from the Italian by William Arrowsmith (BOOKS), Oct., 71;

Smith, William Jay

• Reply to Gertrude S. Hooker (Letter), Feb., 86;
• Reply to William Arrowsmith (Letter), June, 88;
• A face (Poem), Dec., 49;
• Eastern Neck Island (Poem), Mar., 38;
• The celestial (Poem), Mar., 39;

Strout, Cushing

• Harry Houdini (Letter), Dec., 90

Teachout, Terry

• Wishing for a Wellsian world, a review of H. G. Wells: Deperately Mortal by David C. Smith (BOOKS), Dec., 73;

Thomas, Michael M.

• Indi(c)ting Bernard Berenson, a review of Artful Partners—Bernard Berenson & Joseph Duveen by Colin Simpson (BOOKS), Mar., 66

Tuttleton, James W.

• Rewriting the history of American literature, on the work of Lawrence Buell & Sacvan Bercovitch, Nov., 1;
• Edmund Wilson: the author at sixty, a review of The Fifties by Edmund Wilson (BOOKS), Jan., 63;
• Reply to Sacvan Bercovitch (Letter), Mar., 83;
• American writers & the British muse, a review of Atlantic Double-Cross by Robert Weisbuch (BOOKS), Apr., 69;
• Literary free play at Rutgers, a review of The Renewal of Literature by Richard Poirier (BOOKS), June, 63;

Ulmer, James

• For my grandfather (Poem), Oct., 49;

Wade, Sidney

• Gas (Poem), Dec., 47;

Weiss, Theodore

• A Parisian air (Poem), Oct., 45;
• Widow-watching (Poem), Oct., 47;

Wellek, René

• Benjamin’s Moscow, a review of Moscow Diary by Walter Benjamin (BOOKS), Nov., 83

Winegarten, Renee

• The golden boy of Surrealism, a review of Difficult Death by René Crevel (BOOKS), Feb., 66

Woldenberg, Susan

• The future of Times Square: the Portman portent, Feb., 27

Wolf, Matt

• The profits of subsidy, on Peter Hall & Trevor Nunn (LETTER FROM LONDON), May, 67

Zilles, Luke

• Work (Poem), Nov., 49;