The New Criterion

Volume 6

September 1987 – June 1988

Agee, William C.

• The year of John Chamberlain (ART), Nov., 49;
• “Helga” & other problems, on Andrew Wyeth’s “Helga” paintings, Georgia O’Keeffe & other matters (ART), Apr., 47;
• Demuth at the Whitney, June, 41;

Allen, Dick

• The familiar (Poem), Oct., 50;

Allen, James Sloan (& Joseph W. Polisi)

• Music & the good life: an exchange (with Samuel Lipman), June, 1

Alter, Robert

• The academy vs. the canon (Letter), Jan., 80

Atlas, James

• The men of 1914, a review of Makers of the New: The Revolution in Literature, 1912-1939 by Julian Symons (BOOKS), Mar., 66

Auchincloss, Louis

• The novelist in letters, a review of The Letters of Edith Wharton edited by R. W. B. Lewis & Nancy Lewis (BOOKS), May, 68;

Baker, Brock

• H. E. Bates, storyteller, a review of A Month by the Lake & Other Stories by H. E. Bates (BOOKS), Mar., 72;
• Empire, the novel, a review of Empire by Gore Vidal (BOOKS), Apr., 86;

Barringer, Margaret

• Analemma (Poem), May, 47

Bawer, Bruce

• Talking heads: the novels of Saul Bellow, Sept., 8;
• Reading Denis Donoghue, Oct., 28;
• The passing of an elegist, a tribute to Howard Moss, 1922–1987, Nov., 35;
• Passage to India: the career of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Dec., 5;
• Wordsworth on Forty-second Street, on William Wordsworth & the Age of English Romanticism at the New York Public Library, Jan., 27;
• Hugh Kenner: a sinking oeuvre, a review of A Sinking Island by Hugh Kenner (BOOKS), Feb., 63;
• “Voices & Visions” on PBS, Mar., 11;
• RLS meets TLS, a review of The Lantern-Bearers & Other Essays by Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by Jeremy Treglown (BOOKS), Apr., 81;
• Nature boy: the novels of Peter Matthiessen, June, 32;
• Salinger redux, on Ian Hamilton’s attempted biography of J. D. Salinger (NOTEBOOK), June, 92;

Bayles, Martha

• Booksellers at play, on the American Booksellers Association convention for 1987 (LETTER FROM WASHINGTON), Sept., 67
• Special effects, special pleading, on Beloved & earlier novels by Toni Morrison, Jan., 34

Bloch, Bradley W.

• The critic as hero, a review of Criticism in Society by Imre Salusinszky (BOOKS), Mar., 69;
• Losing the lost generation, a review of Geniuses Together: American Writers in Paris in the 1920s by Humphrey Carpenter (BOOKS), May, 71;

Brandow, Michael

• The new café society, on Nell’s & other nightspots favored by the young literati (NOTEBOOK), Mar., 75

Cassidy, Victor M.

• A Ford revival?, a review of The Ford Madox Ford Reader edited by Sondra Stang (BOOKS), Oct., 81

Cézanne, Paul

• Cézanne’s maxims translated from the French by Joel Agee, Dec., 42

Champa, Kermit S.

• Mondrian in theory & practice, Sept., 44

Chandra, G. S.

• Sharat Luchresi, not Edgar Poe (Poem), Oct., 52

Clark, Patricia

• Her red coat (Poem), June, 62

Coulette, Henri

• On a theme of X (Poem), Apr., 44;

Davenport, Guy

• Ruskin according to Proust, a review of On Reading Ruskin by Marcel Proust (BOOKS), Nov., 64;

Davison, Peter

• Mother Church (Poem), Dec., 50;
• Poetry editor (Poem), June, 63;

Di Piero, W. S.

• Notes on photography, Oct., 16;
• Matisse’s broken circle, May, 25;
• The hermit thrush (Poem), June, 59;

Eaton, Charles Edward

• The concert grand (Poem), Nov., 43;
• Belvedere (Poem), Apr., 45;

The Editors

• Introduction to “Whittaker Chambers & ‘Witness’”: an exchange between Diana Trilling & Hilton Kramer, May, 1;
• Introduction to “Music & the good life”: an exchange between Joseph W. Polisi & James Sloan Allen and Samuel Lipman, June, 1

Epstein, Joseph

• A cottage for Mr. Naipaul, on The Enigma of Arrival & earlier works by V. S. Naipaul, Oct., 6;
• Tom Wolfe’s vanities, Feb., 5;
• What’s the usage?, on Sir Ernest Gowers’s The Complete Plain Words & other books on English usage, June, 9;

Evarts, Prescott, Jr.

• House lust (Poem), Oct., 49;

Fleischmann, Ernest

• “Is the symphony orchestra dead?”: an exchange (with Samuel Lipman), Dec., 38

Foerster, Richard

• Sunset sestina (Poem), May, 46;

Frank, Joseph

• Yves Bonnefoy, Feb., 27;

Fromm, Gloria G.

• Saving Rupert Brooke, a review of The Neo-Pagans: Rupert Brooke & the Ordeal of Youth by Paul Delany (BOOKS), Sept., 71;
• The remains of Katherine Mansfield, a review of Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life by Claire Tomalin (BOOKS), June, 78;

Gardner, James

• Poet of things past, a review of The Colloquies & Selected Letters of Guido Gozzano translated from the Italian by J. C. Nichols (BOOKS), Oct., 77

Geist, Sidney

• Brancusi, Brancusi, a review of Brancusi by Radu Varia & Brancusi by Pontus Hultén, et al. (BOOKS), Jan., 60

Gibson, Eric

• Ann Beattie, art critic, a review of Alex Katz by Ann Beattie (BOOKS), Oct., 74;
• Talk shows at the Met, on the recorded audio tours at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NOTEBOOK), Nov., 79;
• Life of the artist, a review of The Life of Henry Moore by Roger Berthoud (BOOKS), Dec., 81;
• Nadelman’s world (ART), Jan., 81;
• Reply to Danielle Rice (Letter), May, 87;
• More than meets the eye, a review of Manet’s Contemplation at the Gare St. Lazare by Harry Rand (BOOKS), June, 83;

Gilbert, Creighton

• Zurbarán, for the most part, on the Zurbarán retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (ART), Dec., 57;
• The Rosso exhibition, or, difficulty partly overcome (ART), Feb., 38;
• Just a glimpse of Giovanni Pisano (ART), Apr., 53;

Gill, Brendan

• The facts about Frank Lloyd Wright (Letter), Mar., 79

Golub, Leon

• Morality tales (Letter), Jan., 78

Graff, Gerald

• The academy vs. the canon (Letter), Nov., 82

Gress, David

• Sartre & “Les Temps Modernes,” Mar., 19;
• “Talking ‘Terrorism’” at Stanford, on the conference Talking “Terrorism”: Ideologies & Paradigms in a Postmodern World, Apr., 15;

Gress, David

• Stone v. Socrates, a review of The Trial of Socrates by I. F. Stone (BOOKS), June, 87;

Griffin, Walter

• Aunt Ida & Lord Byron (Poem), June, 64;

Hadas, Rachel

• Idolatry brood (Poem), Oct., 51;
• Bedtime (Poem), May, 45;

Hall, Donald

• Cider 5¢ a glass (Poem), Feb., 33;

Harrison, Jeffrey

• The harvest dance (Poem), June, 61

Hines, Thomas

• In the nature of the architect, a review of Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright by Brendan Gill (BOOKS), Jan., 67;
• Reply to Brendan Gill (Letter), Mar., 80

Hirsch, Edward

• Across the long dark border (Poem), Nov., 40;
• Out of the past (Poem), Nov., 42;

Hofstadter, Dan

• Writing about Degas, a review of Degas by Denys Sutton & other recent works (BOOKS), May, 60

Justice, Donald

• Dance lessons of the Thirties (Poem), May, 44;

Kenyon, Jane

• The three Susans (Poem), Mar., 45;

Ketcham, Diana

• Frank Gehry in vogue (ARCHITECTURE), Mar., 50

Kimball, Roger

• The academy debates the canon, on Literary Theory & the Curriculum, a symposium at Yale, Sept., 31;
• Rousseau’s “virtue,” a review of Rousseau & the Republic of Virtue by Carol Blum (BOOKS), Nov., 55;
• Reply to Gerald Graff & John P. Sisk (Letter), Nov., 83
• Frank Stella returns to the Modern, Dec., 21;
• The anguishes of E. M. Cioran, Mar., 37;
• Is MOMA attempting suicide?, on MOMA’s Contemporary Art in Context series, Apr., 30;
• Professor Hartman reconstructs Paul de Man, on Geoffrey H. Hartman’s defense of de Man in The New Republic, May, 36;
• Guns & other “hermeneutical acts” at Columbia, on Columbia’s Innovations in Education seminar (NOTEBOOK), May, 77;
• The death & resurrection of postmodern architecture, on Architecture & Education: The Past 25 Years & Assumptions for the Future, a symposium at Princeton, June, 21

Kirsch, Bob

• Introduction to “Cézanne’s maxims,” Dec., 42

Kramer, Hilton

• The happy critic: Arthur Danto in “The Nation,” Sept., 25;
• The Tynan phenomenon, Oct., 1;
• “Morality Tales” on tour, on the traveling exhibition Morality Tales: History Painting in 1980s, Nov., 1;
• Last—or lost—intellectuals?, on The Last Intellectuals by Russell Jacoby, Dec., 1;
• Reply to Leon Golub (Letter), Jan., 78;
• The Anselm Kiefer retrospective, Feb., 1;
• Thinking about “Witness,” Mar., 1;
• Rembrandt as Warhol: Svetlana Alpers’s “Enterprise,” Apr., 1;
• Whittaker Chambers & “Witness”: an exchange (with Diana Trilling), May, 1;

Leithauser, Brad

• Reply to Louis Simpson (Letter), Oct., 86;
• Dead forms: the ghost story today, Dec., 29;

Lipman, Samuel

• Is the symphony orchestra dead?, Sept., 1
• The violinist of the age, on Josef Hassid (MUSIC), Oct., 53;
• Doing new music, doing American music, Nov., 5;
• “Is the symphony orchestra dead?”: an exchange (with Ernest Fleishman), Dec., 38;
• Juilliard life & death, a review of Nothing But the Best by Judith Kogan (BOOKS), Dec., 78
• Ruminations on the romantic piano (MUSIC), Feb., 55;
• Reply to Thomas Nee (Letter), Feb., 87;
• The Flagstad legend, on the Norwegian soprano Kirsten Flagstad, Mar., 30;
• Kurt Herbert Adler, 1905–1988 (MUSIC), Apr., 71;
• Music & the good life: an exchange (with Joseph W. Polisi & James Sloan Allen), June, 1;

McConnell, Scott

• Leaving the Party: the politics of Sterling Hayden, Jan., 1

Mack, Dana

• Schoenberg & the battles of modern music, Feb., 17

Nee, Thomas

• Doing new music, doing American music (Letter), Feb., 87

Norris, Leslie

• A sea in the desert (Poem), Apr., 39;

Pankey, Eric

• If you can (Poem), Nov., 44;
• Driving south from Iowa City (Poem), Mar., 47;

Perl, Jed

• The shows must go on, on the Whitney Biennial of 1987 & other shows (ART), Sept., 57;
• Welcome to Berlin, on Berlinart 1961-1987 at MOMA (ART), Oct., 58;
• Pollock & company, on Deborah Solomon’s Jackson Pollock & the exhibition Abstract Expressionism: The Critical Developments at the Albright-Knox Gallery (ART), Nov., 27;
• Photography & beyond, on the Starn Twins, Henri Cartier-Bresson & others (ART), Dec., 51;
• O’Keeffe in the capital, Jan., 22;
• Reply to John E. Scofield (Letter), Jan., 79;
• From September to December, a gallery round-up (ART), Feb., 43;
• What’s major? What’s minor?, on Neapolitan Crib figures, Alexander Calder & Hans Hoffmann (ART), Mar., 58;
• Yes, yes, a gallery round-up (ART), Apr., 58;
• Obituaries & retrospectives, on Picasso, Hélion & André Masson (LETTER FROM PARIS), May, 48;
• Gallery-going, on Joan Snyder, Ned Small & others (ART), June, 70;

Polisi, Joseph W. (& James Sloan Allen)

• Music & the good life: an exchange (with Samuel Lipman), June, 1

Prescott, Theodore

• An evening at the University of the Arts, on Art: Act of Political Conscience, a lecture by the painter Sue Coe (NOTEBOOK), Feb., 77

Pritchard, William H.

• The critic as storyteller, a review of Four Dubliners by Richard Ellmann (BOOKS), Nov., 67

Resnikova, Eva

• Dutch treat, on Jiri Kylián’s Netherlands Dance Theater (DANCE), Sept., 53;
• The Bolshoi at the Met (DANCE), Oct., 63;
• Trisha Brown uptown (DANCE), Nov., 45;
• Martha Graham carries on (DANCE), Dec., 63;
• Thanks for the memory: “Le Sacre” at the Joffrey (DANCE), Jan., 46;
• Tropical fever in midtown, on reconstructions of Katherine Dunham dances by the Alvin Ailey company (DANCE), VI 6, Feb. 1988, 59; .P
  Resnikova, Eva Showdance,
  on Danny Buraczeski’s Jazzdance company, the Ice Capades & a revival of Jerome Kern’s Sally (DANCE), Mar., 63;
• Robbins, dances, on Jerome Robbins’s Ives, songs (DANCE), Apr., 67;
• Easy watching, on Lar Lubovitch (DANCE), May, 57;
• Tinkerer, Taylor, on Paul Taylor at City Center (DANCE), June, 65;

Rice, Danielle

• The Met Portfolio Tours (Letter), May, 86

Richman, Robert

• Black Mountain comes to Bard, on the symposium Poetry at Black Mountain College (NOTEBOOK), Sept., 85;
• Death & the poet, a review of War Stories by Howard Nemerov (BOOKS), Jan., 72;
• The trials of a poet, a review of New & Selected Poems, 1940-1986 by Karl Shapiro (BOOKS), Apr., 74;

Rifkind, Donna

• Old, new, buried, blue, a review of Family Skeletons by Henrietta Garnett (BOOKS), Sept., 82;
• No way out, a review of The Radiant Way by Margaret Drabble (BOOKS), Nov., 70;
• Call it irresponsible, a review of Shifting Landscape by Henry Roth (BOOKS), Feb., 75;

Rosen, Michael J.

• In Rousseau’s jungles (Poem), Sept., 51;
• Window washing (Poem), Mar., 48;

Salter, Mary Jo

• Unfinished painting (Poem), Nov., 38

Scofield, John E.

• Pollock & company (Letter), Jan., 78

Shils, Edward

• Totalitarians & antinomians: remembering the 30s & 60s, May, 6

Simpson, Louis

• The confinement of free verse (Letter), Oct., 86;
• The rise (Poem), Dec., 48;
• White oxen (Poem), Dec., 49;

Sisk, John P.

• The academy vs. the canon (Letter), Nov., 83

Sofield, David

• Insomnia (Poem), Apr., 42;
• The sun rising (Poem), Apr., 43

Solomon, Deborah

• Live, from SoHo a review of The Vintage Contemporary Artists Series edited by Elizabeth Avedon (BOOKS), Feb., 71;
• Open house at the Pollocks, on the new Pollock-Krasner House & Study Center in East Hampton, Long Island (NOTEBOOK), May, 81;

Sorrell, John Edward

• Summer beyond the garden (Poem), Apr., 46

Spires, Elizabeth

• The beds (Poem), Sept., 49;
• Annonciade (Poem), Jan., 41;

Steele, Timothy

• Aurora (Poem), Oct., 45;
• Youth (Poem), Oct., 46;
• Dependent nature (Poem), Oct., 47;
• Pacific rim (Poem), Oct., 48

Sutton, Denys

• The collecting life, a review of The Havemeyers by Frances Weitzenhoffer (BOOKS), Sept., 77;

Szamuely, George

• The purest Hitchens, on the British political & literary journalist Christopher Hitchens (NOTEBOOK), Feb., 82

Teachout, Terry

• Seven hundred pretty good books, on the Book-of-the-Month Club at age sixty, Oct., 36;
• A liberated woman, on Rebecca West: A Life by Victoria Glendinning, Jan., 13;

Tomlinson, Charles

• Hudson River School (Poem), Dec., 46

Trilling, Diana

• Whittaker Chambers & “Witness”: an exchange (with Hilton Kramer), May, 1

Tuttleton, James W.

• The androgynous Papa Hemingway, a review of Hemingway by Kenneth S. Lynn (BOOKS), Oct., 67
• The trials of Edgar Allan Poe, Nov., 17;
• Sherwood Anderson: a room of his own, a review of Sherwood Anderson: A Biography by Kim Townsend (BOOKS), Dec., 67;
• Mr. Kazin: Have you no sense of decency, sir?, on Alfred Kazin’s attack on neoconservative intellectuals in Dissent (NOTEBOOK), Dec., 86;
• “A runaway dog like me”: Stephen Crane in his letters, VI 10, June 1988, 49;

Wilkin, Karen

• Stuart Davis in his own time (ART), Jan., 50;
• Marsden Hartley: at home & abroad, Apr., 23;

Winegarten, Renee

• Who was Paul Morand?, a review of Fancy Goods/Open All Night by Paul Morand, translated from the French by Ezra Pound (BOOKS), Nov., 73;
• André Gide: Faust or Mephistopheles?, Apr., 7;

Woodward, Richard B.

• “I am the greatest”: Kruger & Albers (PHOTOGRAPHY), June, 74;