The New Criterion

Volume 8

September 1989 – June 1990

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Agee, William C.

• In the most exalted ranks, a review of Cézanne & America by John Rewald (BOOKS), Sept., 74;
• Cézanne & America (Letter), Jan., 80

Auchincloss, Louis

• Viva Velázquez (Letter), Jan., 79

Austin, Gabriel

• Raymond Williams (Letter), Apr., 78

Austin, Sarah G. (with Priscilla Cunningham)

• “Bingo!” at the Wadsworth Atheneum (Letter), Apr., 78

Bawer, Bruce

• “Baseless dreaming”: the novels of Graham Greene, Sept., 17;
• Graham Greene: the Catholic novels, Oct., 24;
• Graham Greene: the politics, Nov., 34;
• Dispossession, dreams, delusions: the poetry of John Berryman, VIII 4, Dec. 1989, 19;
• The idea man, a review of A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters by Julian Barnes (BOOKS), Jan., 69;
• Where’s that rainbow?, a review of Vineland by Thomas Pynchon (BOOKS), Feb., 70;
• Hungering for eternity: Coleridge the poet, Apr., 20;
• The enigma of Randall Jarrell, May, 30

Bergman, David

• F. O. Matthiessen (Letter), Sept., 78

Breton, Marcela

• Graham Greene’s novels (Letter) Jan., 78

Coulette, Henri

• Tenure (Poem), Oct., 38

Cowling, Maurice

• Raymond Williams in retrospect, Feb., 10;
• Reply to Gabriel Austin (Letter), Apr., 78;
• Raymond Williams (Letter), May, 80

Culhane, Brian

• Paradigm (Poem), Dec., 49

Cunningham, Priscilla (with Sarah G. Austin)

• “Bingo!” at the Wadsworth Atheneum (Letter), Apr., 78

Di Piero, W. S.

• Spring colds (Poem), May, 46

The Editors

• Introduction to “Cynthia Ozick, T. S. Eliot & high culture”: an exchange between Cynthia Ozick & Hilton Kramer, Apr., 5;
• Reply to Priscilla Cunningham & Sarah G. Austin (Letter), Apr., 79

Ellrich, Robert J.

• The Wexner Center (Letter), Mar., 80

Epstein, Joseph

• The mere common sense of Sydney Smith, Nov., 9;
• The big O: the reputation of George Orwell, May, 14

Evarts, Prescott, Jr.

• Cheetah (Poem), Sept., 48

Falcoff, Mark

• “An aristocrat in the public square”: José Ortega y Gasset, Sept., 34;
• García Lorca & his times, Jan., 25

Forge, Andrew

• “Monet in the ’90s,” May, 25

Frieden, Gregory

• The Soviet dinosaur, Sept., 12

Fromkin, David

• Young Winston’s salvation, a review of The Story of the Malakand Field Force & other early works by Winston Churchill (BOOKS), Mar., 73

Fromm, Gloria G.

• The rites of editing: letters as sacred texts, Jan., 14

Gibson, Eric

• Wilmarth & Serra (ART), Oct., 61;
• “Art of the Western World” on PBS (TELEVISION), Dec., 61;
• Minimalism revisited, a review of Minimalism by Kenneth Baker & Labyrinths: Robert Morris, Minimalism & the 1960s by Maurice Berger (BOOKS), Feb., 64;
• Robert Moskowitz at MOMA (ART), June, 68

Gilbert, Creighton

• Add one Caravaggio, on A Caravaggio Rediscovered: “The Lute Player” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (ART), May, 58

Gioia, Dana

• Prayer (Poem), Feb., 40;
• Planting a Sequoia (Poem), Feb., 41

Gress, David

• The case against Martin Bernal, on Black Athena, Vol. I, Dec., 36;
• History vs. ideology, on the 1989 meeting of the American Historical Association in San Francisco (NOTEBOOK), Feb., 76;
• Raymond Aron, philosopher of liberal democracy, June, 20

Gurevich, David

• The proletariat’s favorite son, a review of Gorky by Henri Troyat (BOOKS), Nov., 73;
• Upstairs, downstairs, a review of The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (BOOKS), Dec., 77
• St. Urbain revisited, a review of Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler (BOOKS), Apr., 72

Hadas, Rachel

• In the hammock (Poem), May, 45;

Hall, Donald

• Tomorrow (Poem), Feb., 42

Hofstadter, Dan

• Reply to Dody Müller (Letter), Sept., 78

Iannone, Carol

• Speaking for the humanities (Letter), Sept., 80

Johnsen, Clark

• New life from old records (Letter), Mar., 78

Jordan, Barbara

• To England (Poem), Sept., 49

Kedourie, Elie

• Arnold Toynbee & his “nonsense book,” Mar., 18

Kenyon, Jane

• At the Spanish Steps in Rome (Poem), Oct., 39;
• Spring snow (Poem), Oct., 40

Kimball, Roger

• The contemporary sophist, on Stanley Fish, Oct., 5;
• The collapse of the center: the humanities at Williams, on the symposium Crisis in the Humanities? at Williams College, Jan., 32;
• In the footsteps of Sade, on Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia, Mar., 7;
• Vistas of inanity: art & ideas in the Eighties, on the exhibition Culture & Commentary: An Eighties Perspective at the Hirshhorn Museum, Apr., 38;
• How to build a museum: the example of Louis Kahn (ARCHITECTURE), June, 64

Kramer, Hilton

• Cyril Connolly’s “Horizon,” Sept., 5;
• Reflections on “Bad Art,” on the book by Quentin Bell, Nov., 5;
• The Wexner Center in Columbus, Dec., 5;
• What was the Congress for Cultural Freedom?, Jan., 7
• Cynthia Ozick’s farewell to T. S. Eliot—and high culture, on Ozick’s essay T. S. Eliot at 101 in The New Yorker, VIII 6, Feb. 1990, 5;
• Correction (Letter), Mar., 80;
• Cynthia Ozick, T. S. Eliot & high culture: an exchange (with Cynthia Ozick), Apr., 5;
• John Szarkowski’s “history of photographic pictures,” on Photography Until Now at MOMA, May, 5;
• The function of criticism: some Polish examples, on Four Decades of Polish Essays edited by Jan Kott, June, 3

Lake, Paul

• Simon says (Poem), Dec., 50

Leithauser, Brad

• Uncle Grant (Poem), Mar., 50;
• The caller (Poem),, June, 49

Leopardi, Giacomo

• Coro di morti nello studio di Frederico Ruysch (Poem) in Italian, with facing translation, Chorus of the dead in the laboratory of Frederick Ruysch, by John Herington, June, 54

Lerner, Craig S.

• The use of history, a review of August 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (BOOKS), Oct. 1989, 71

Levin, Gail

• Marsden Hartley (Letter), Apr., 80

Lipman, Samuel

• Reflections on Bach (MUSIC), Sept., 50;
• Marian Anderson: the diva from Philadelphia (MUSIC), Oct., 43;
• New life from old records (MUSIC), Nov., 53;
• Reply to Edmund D. Pitaro & Ron F. Maxwell (Letter), Nov., 80;
• Redefining culture & democracy, Dec., 10;
• Vladimir Horowitz, 1904-1989 (MUSIC), Jan., 53;
• Refurbishing Caruso & company (MUSIC), Feb., 52;
• A recital of Pollini’s (MUSIC), Mar., 53;
• Reply to Clark Johnsen (Letter), Mar., 78;
• Reply to Emerson R. Marks (Letter), Mar., 79;
• Opera & politics, a presentation at the 1990 meeting of Opera America, Apr., 33;
• The Philharmonic chooses a music director, on Kurt Masur (MUSIC), June, 56

Lyons, Donald

• Underdogs & underwear, on The Grapes of Wrath & Cat on the Hot Tin Roof on Broadway (THEATER), May, 47;
• British fustian, on Aspects of Love & Lettice & Lovage (THEATER), June, 59

McDonald, Walter

• The digs at Escondido (Poem), May, 43;
• On all roads going & coming (Poem), May, 44

Mack, Dana

• Art behind barbed wire, on Viktor Ullmann’s satirical opera The Emperor of Atlantis (MUSIC), Sept., 54;
• At Merkin Hall (MUSIC), Dec., 55
• The Kronos at Alice Tully (MUSIC), Feb., 58;
• Why Levine?, on James Levine, musical director of the Metropolitan Opera orchestra (MUSIC), Apr., 56
• The Cleveland at Carnegie (MUSIC), May, 62

McNair, Wesley

• Driving to dark country (Poem), Feb., 43

McPherson, Sandra

• Appliqué tulip quilt from Kansas (Poem), Dec., 43
• Willia Ette Graham’s Infinity Log Cabin Quilt, Oakland, 1987 (Poem), Dec., 46

Mainwaring, Marion

• Edith Wharton (Letter), Sept., 80

Mariani, Paul

• Prelude (Poem), May, 41

Marks, Emerson R.

• Redefining culture & democracy (Letter), Mar., 79

Maxwell, Ron F.

• Notes on Bach (Letter), Nov., 80

Mellow, James R.

• The sense of the past, a review of Henry James & Edith Wharton: Letters 1900-1915 edited by Lyall H. Powers (BOOKS), Feb., 68

Moore, Richard

• The time (Poem), Jan., 49

Morris, Herbert

• When it stops (Poem), Oct., 41

Müller, Dody

• The figurative Fifties (Letter), Sept., 78

Murray-Brown, Jeremy

• False cinema: Dziga Vertov & early Soviet film, Nov., 21

Myers, D. G.

• Sound & fury, a review of The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Criticism by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (BOOKS), Feb., 61;

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• David Smith (Letter), May, 78

NOTES & COMMENTS

• The NEA after Mapplethorpe, Sept., 1;
• The Library of America betrayed, Sept., 2;
• Herbert von Karajan, 1908-1989, Sept., 3;
• Hammer & sickle as cutting edge, or, Gorbasm in the art world, Oct., 1;
• Spreading culture, on the launching of Public Culture magazine, Oct., 2;
• “The showbizification of the world,” on Stephen Sondheim’s appointment to the faculty of Oxford University, Oct., 3;
• Taking the classics off the air, on the decline in number of radio stations broadcasting classical music, Nov., 1;
• Academic acceleration, on feminist activism at Columbia University, Nov., 2;
• Virgil Thomson, 1896-1989, Dec., 1;
• “Bingo!” in Hartford, or, how to exploit a controversy, on the Wadsworth Atheneum’s decision to exhibit the photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe, Dec., 2;
• The NEA since Frohnmayer, Jan., 1;
• From the New Journalism to the Old Realism, on Tom Wolfe’s essay The Billion-Footed Beast in Harper’s Magazine, Jan., 3;
• The revolution devours its own, on leftist attacks on Susan Sontag, Jan., 4;
• Doing the multicultural blues, on Multicultural Literacy, the Graywolf Annual No. 5, Feb., 1;
• A no-fault criticism for the Nineties?, Feb., 2;
• Refurbishing the rhetoric of revolution, on Pierre Bourdieu’s essay History Dawns in the East in the TLS, Mar., 1;
• Presenting politics, not art, on An American Dialogue, a report by the National Task Force on Presenting & Touring the Performing Arts, Mar., 2;
• Beyond perfection at the Kimbell, on the proposed expansion of the Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, Mar., 3;
• Onward & upward with the arts, on the performance art of Annie Sprinkle, Mar., 4;
• “Can Art History Survive Feminism?,” on the 1990 meeting of the College Art Association, Apr., 1;
• Musical exports, on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s tour to Japan & the absence of American works on its program, Apr., 3;
• Looting the museums, on the practice of “deaccessioning,” May, 1;
• PBS: aping the networks, May, 2;
• Veritas?, on Derrick Bell’s demand that a black woman be given a tenured appointment to the Harvard Law School faculty, June, 1;
• A Pulitzer for—what?, on the awarding of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry to a volume of prose, The World Doesn’t End by Charles Simic,, June, 2

O’Brien, Darcy

• Graham Greene’s novels (Letter), Jan., 79

Ozick, Cynthia

• Cynthia Ozick, T. S. Eliot & high culture: an exchange (with Hilton Kramer), Apr., 5

Perl, Jed

• Comedy of styles, on Trevor Winkfield & others (ART), Sept., 65;
• Bicentennial blahs, on the Paris art scene circa 1989, Oct., 33;
• Viva Velázquez (ART), Nov., 59;
• Diasporisms, on First Diasporist Manifesto by R.B. Kitaj. (ART), Dec., 51

Perl, Jed

• The legend business, on Kenneth Noland at Salander-O’Reilly(ART), Jan., 57;
• Reply to Louis Auchincloss (Letter), Jan., 80;
• Half a dozen contemporaries, on Violet Baxter, Barbara Bloom & others (ART), Feb., 45;
• Classics without commercials, on galleries showing non-contemporary work (ART), Mar., 59;
• Mixed media, on Cindy Sherman, Joan Snyder & others (ART), Apr., 49;
• Successes, on Leland Bell, Bruce Helander & Jacquline Lima (ART), May, 52;
• Reply to Norman Turner (Letter), May, 80

Pitaro, Edmund D.

• Notes on Bach (Letter), Nov., 80

Pitlick, Mary

• Edith Wharton redux (Letter), Oct., 85

Pryce-Jones, David

• A privileged man, a review of Where Joy Resides: A Christopher Isherwood Reader edited by Don Bachardy & James P. White (BOOKS) Mar., 70

Rawson, Claude

• C. S. Lewis, schoolboy among the moderns, June, 8

Resnikova, Eva

• Kirovmania in New York (DANCE), Oct., 56

Rice, William

• The example of Robert Hayden, Nov., 42

Richman, Robert

• A chronicle of vanishings, a review of No Traveller by Richard Howard (BOOKS), Dec., 72
• Ruined squire, a review of The Collected Poems of Sidney Keyes edited by Michael Meyer (BOOKS), Mar., 65;
• One poet’s prejudices, a review of Under Brigg-flatts: A History of Poetry in Great Britain, 1960–1988 by Donald Davie (BOOKS), June, 81

Ricks, Christopher

• What is at stake in the “battle of the books”?, Sept., 40

Rifkind, Donna

• Apocalypse now, a review of London Fields by Martin Amis (BOOKS), May, 73

Rosenthal, Deborah

• Primary painting: Sonia Delaunay, Feb., 18

Simon, John

• Made of Steiner stuff, a review of Real Presences by George Steiner (BOOKS), Oct., 64;
• Beautiful loser, a review of Kafka by Pietro Citati (BOOKS), Apr., 60

Simpson, Louis

• An academic story (Poem), Apr., 44;
• Mencken’s anti-Semitism (Letter), June, 88

Sisson, C. H.

• In the apple-tree (Poem), Sept., 45;
• How would it look in English?, a review of The Art of Translation edited by Rosanna Warren (BOOKS), Oct., 76;
• Aller Moor (Poem), Nov., 46;
• Address (Poem), Nov., 48;
• The pattern (Poem), Nov., 49;
• Shakespeare Taylor-made, a review of Reinventing Shakespeare by Gary Taylor (BOOKS), Apr., 66

Skloot, Floyd

• Living room (Poem), Feb., 44;
• The song of Thomas Kinsella, Mar., 41

Smith, William Jay

• The Pasternak centennial celebrations, May, 9

Solomon, Deborah

• Reader, run, a review of Just Looking by John Updike & Reported Sightings by John Ashbery (BOOKS), Nov., 70

Solomon, Deborah

• Gertrude & Juliana, a review of Rebels on Eighth Street: Juliana Force & the Whitney Museum of American Art by Avis Berman (BOOKS), Jan., 74

Solomon, Deborah

• Inspired illustrator, a review of Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life by Roxanna Robinson & Georgia O’Keeffe: In the West edited by Doris Bry & Nicholas Callaway (BOOKS), June, 78

Spires, Elizabeth

• The haiku master (Poem), Jan., 50;
• Worldling (Poem), Mar., 48

Sutton, Denys

• Constantine FitzGibbon: a portrait, Feb., 34

Tanenhaus, Sam

• Whittaker Chambers, man of letters, Apr., 11

Teachout, Terry

• Mencken vs. Mencken, a review of The Diary of H. L. Mencken
  edited by Charles A. Fecher (BOOKS), May, 65;
• Reply to Louis Simpson (Letter),, June, 88

Turner, Norman

• Stanley Lewis (Letter), May, 78

Tuttleton, James W.

• Puritanism with a human face, a review of The Puritan Ordeal by Andrew Delbanco (BOOKS), Sept., 69;
• Reply to David Bergman (Letter), Sept., 79;
• Reply to Mary Pitlick (Letter), Oct., 88;
• Duplicity in Sussex, a review of A Ring of Conspirators: Henry James & His Literary Circle, 1895-1915 by Miranda Seymour (BOOKS), Dec., 66;
• Fictions & fabrications in autobiography today, Mar., 32;
• Finessing the Five of Hearts, a review of The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams & His Friends, 1880-1918 by Patricia O’Toole (BOOKS),, June, 72

Vine, Richard

• The beatification of Walter Benjamin,, June, 37

Weiner, Lauren

• Looking back at Caroline Gordon, a review of Connections: Caroline Gordon & the Southern Renaissance by Ann Waldron & Caroline Gordon by Veronica A. Makowsky (BOOKS), Oct., 80;
• Sympathy for the devil, a review of Goodnight! by Abram Tertz (Andrei Sinyavsky) (BOOKS), Apr., 69

Wilkin, Karen

• Goya: Enlightenment at the Met (ART), Sept., 58;
• Frankenthaler & her critics, Oct., 16;
• O pioneers! Picasso & Braque 1907-1914, on Pioneering Cubism at MOMA, Dec., 29;
• Letter from Paris: open house at the Bastille, on the Paris art scene circa Summer 1989, Jan., 44;
• David Smith: the sculptor & his drawings, Mar., 13;
• “Matisse in Morocco,”, June, 30

Wilson, Robley, Jr.

• Persia (Poem), Sept., 46

Winegarten, Renee

• What is literature? What is not?, a review of A New History of French Literature edited by Denis Hollier (BOOKS), Nov., 65;
• The Nizan case, a review of Paul Nizan: Communist Novelist by Michael Scriven (BOOKS), Jan., 63

Wright, David H.

• Questions about the vernacular, on various exhibitions celebrating 150 years of photography (PHOTOGRAPHY), Oct., 46

Yourcenar, Marguerite

• Tone & language in the historical novel translated from the French by Walter Kaiser, Feb., 24
• That mighty sculptor, time translated from the French by Walter Kaiser (NOTEBOOK), June, 85