September 2001 | The New Criterion

Notes & Comments

Features

The new Epicureans

by Kenneth Minogue

The first in a series titled “The survival of culture.”

What did Kierkegaard want?

by Roger Kimball

Reflections on the philosopher, occasioned by the recent biography by Alastair Hannay.

The exemplar: Ignazio Silone

by David Pryce-Jones

A consideration of the novelist and anti-communist, and the accusations against him.

The accomplishment of Edith Wharton

by Brooke Allen

A consideration of Edith Wharton’s achievement upon the Library of America publication of her Collected Stories.

The fabrication of Aboriginal history

by Keith Windschuttle

On revisionism in Australia, and the difficulties of challenging orthodoxy.

Louis Sullivan after functionalism

Occasioned by The Idea of Louis Sullivan, by John Szarkowski; Louis Sullivan: The Poetry of Architecture, by Robert Twombly and Narciso G. Menocal; Sullivan’s City: The Meaning of Ornament for Louis Sullivan, by David van Zanten.

The historiographical earthquake

by Mark Falcoff

A review of Spain Betrayed: The Soviet Union in the Spanish Civil War, edited by Ronald Radosh, Mary W. Harbeck, and Grigory Sevostianov.

Rewriting George Orwell

by Stephen Schwartz

A consideration of a new and bowdlerized edition of Homage to Catalonia.

The violence of Allen Tate

by David Yezzi

On the poet and critic, upon the publication of Allen Tate: Orphan of the South, by Thomas A. Underwood.

Poems

Recollections of Japan

by Frederick Morgan

The dream

by Frederick Morgan

PasiphaÃ«

by Frederick Morgan

Art

“Beyond the easel”: the rise of the décorateur

by Karen Wilkin

On Beyond the Easel: Decorative Painting by Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis, and Roussel, 1890-1930, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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Music

Kidsplay

by Jay Nordlinger

A chronicle of the early careers of Alexander Sitkovetsky, Ha-Na Chang, Matt Haimovitz, Piotr Anderszewski, Monica Groop, Ian Bostridge & Olli Mustonen.

The media

Chandraology

by James Bowman

On scandal stories and their cause.

Books

Edna St. Vincent Millay’s doubly burning candles

by X.J. Kennedy

A review of What My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay, by Daniel Mark Epstein, and Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, by Nancy Milford.