The New Criterion 1998 - 1999: Vol 17 Index

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The New Criterion
Volume 17 September 1998—June 1999
Allen, Brooke The wily Mr. Shawn, reviews of Remem- quimista (Poem), with facing translation, The
bering Mr. Shawn’s “New Yorker”: The Invisible ilchemist, by Alastair Reid, Mar., 42;
Art of Editing by Ved Mehta & Here But Not Things that might have been (Poem), with facing
Here: A Love Story dy Lillian Ross (BOOKS), yanslation, Things that might have been, by Hoyt
Sept., 56; Rogers, Mar., 44
“Not a very loud voice? a review of Osbert Sitwell 0) m, James Operation retract, on bias, honesty &™ the
Philip Ziegler (Books), Oct., 68; ‘Operation Tailwind” retraction (THE MEDIA),
In the city, reviews of Bech at Bay by John Updike & Sept., $1;
Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge (FICTION Humpty Dumpty: together again, on journalistic
CHRONICLE), Nov., 60; ubservience to White House spin (THE MEDIA),
The scholar of scandal, a review of The Traitor’s Kiss Oct., 58;
The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, by Fintan illusions of equivalence, on Cold War, the CNN
O'Toole, Dec., 21; elevision series, Nov., 55;
Commonsense aesthete, a review of Aubrey Che Gingrich story, on Newt Gingrich & the press
Beardsley: A Biography by Matthew Sturgis orps (THE MEDIA), Dec., 64;
(Books), Feb., 67; An era without honor, on lying, honor & the Clinton
Pretentious & hollow, a review of Heavy Water & vdministration (THE MEDIA), Jan., 60;
Other Stories by Martin Amis (Booxs), Mar., 70; Honor & duty, a review of A Man in Full by Tom
Illustrations of inertia & compromise, reviews of Wolfe (BOOKs), Jan., 67;
Amsterdam by Ian McEwan, The Last King of History Potomac style, spinning history on behalfo f
Scotland by Giles Foden &® Charlotte Gray: A the President (THE MEDIA), Feb., 58;
Novel by Sebastian Faulks (FICTION he grand narrative, a review of From Plato to NATO
CHRONICLE), Apr., 60; by David Gress (BOOKS), Feb., 71;
A family album, a review of Another World by Pat Che throne of self-importance, 07 Monica’s Story
Barker (BooKs), May, 74 journalistic hubris (THE MEDIA), Mar., $7;
A feeling of disjunction, a review of The Hours by The women come & go, on self-conceit in the media
Michael Cunningham (BooKs), June, 81 THE MEDIA), Apr., 55;
Allen, James Sloan Tolstoy’s prophecy: “What is Art?” Caring, compassionate imperialism, on the rhetoric of
today, on Tolstoy’s curmudgeonly book on art & the war in Kosovo (THE MEDIA), May, 64;
morality, Dec., 15 Gestural politics, empty gestures abound, June, $5
Arkes, Hadley Liberalism & the law, being the fifth in a B , Peg The first thing to go (Poem), Sept., 33
series titled “The betrayal of liberalism? Jan., 4 sovers, Robert Queer theory in Russia (Letter), Mar.,79
Arkin, Marc M. An unlikely prophet, a reviewo f Mary Brent, Jonathan “Vsyo Normalno”—in Russia, on the
Baker Eddy by Gillian Gill (BOoKs), Jan., 7¢ daily strains ofR ussian life, Nov., 23
Horace W. “The Aesthetics of Music.” an
Bell, Daniel “Commentaire” at 20 (Letter), Dec., 88 exchange between Horace W. Brock & Roger
Berry, J. Duncan Where’s Raymond?, a review of Le Scruton, Mar., 31
Philosophe et la mémoire du siecle: Tolérance,
liberté et philosophie by Raymond Klibansky Carduff, Christopher Book notes on 1898: The Birth of
(Books), Jan., 78 the American Century by David Traxel, Man
Bolton, Joe Page (Poem), Sept., 30; Flies: The Story of Alberto Santos-Dumont,
Soon (Poem), Sept., 31; Master of the Balloon, Conquerer of the Air by
Hell & back (Poem), Sept., 32 Nancy Winters G Man From Babel by Eugene
Borges, Jorge Luis La moneda de hiero (Poem), with Jolas (Books), Nov., 73;
facing translation, The iron coin, by Eric Book notes on The Three Horsemen of the New
McHenry, Mar., 40; Apocalypse by Nirad C. Chaudhurt, Friends
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Talking in the Night: Sixty Years of Writing for Epstein, Daniel Mark The circle dance (Poem), Oct., 41
“The New Yorker” by Philip Hamburger & Cyril Epstein, Joseph Pink pigeons & blue mayonnaise, on the
Connolly: A Life by Jeremy Lewis (BOOKS), composer, painter C novelist Gerald Berners,
Feb., 77; Nov., 16;
Book notes on The Way of the World: From the New prose for old, 07 The New Oxford English
Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the Book of Prose, edited by John Gross (BOOKS),
Twenty-first Century by David Fromkin, Under Apr., 65
Gemini by Isabel Bolton &% Zarata by Michael Allen
(Books), Apr., 745 Falcoff; Mark Bored & boring, a review of The Politics
Book notes on Heshel’s Kingdom by Dan Jacobson & of Spanish American “Modernismo” By
A Gift Imprisoned: The Poetic Life of Matthew Exquisite Design by Gerard Aching (BOOKs),
Arnold by Ian Hamilton (BOoKs), June, 88 Dec., 85
Caryl, Christian An opacity of hopelessness, on Friedman, Paula Hasty reflections, a review of
Muscovite cinema C& self-image (LETTER FROM Personals, edited by Thomas Beller (BOOKS),
Moscow), Oct., 76 Jan., 76
Coleman, Alexander Concert note on The St. Petersburg
Philharmonic, conducted by Yuri Temirkanov, at Gilbert, Creighton Sound judgments, on
Carnegie Hall (Music), Dec., 61; Michelangelo—The Last Judgement: A Glorious
Two at City Opera, reviews of The Cunning Little Restoration by Loren Partridge, with contributions
Vixen by Leos Janacek & Of Mice and Men by by Fabrizio Mancinelli & Gianluigi Colalucet &
Carlisle Floyd, at the City Opera, New York Michelangelo’s “Last Judgement”: The
(Music), Jan., 55; Renaissance Response by Bernadine Barnes
Three Late Poems, on the poetry of Jorge Luis Borges, (Books), Nov., 68;
Mar., 39; An observer of charms & hurts: Dosso of Ferrara,
Eca de Quierés, on the influential Portuguese novelist, on Dosso Dossi, Court Painter in Renaissance
Apr., 28; Ferrara, at the Metropolitan Museum ofA rt, New
At last, the promised land?, a review of Moses und York (ArT), Apr., 51
Aron by Arnold Schoenberg, at the Metropolitan Greenberg, Martin Thomas Mann in English, on the
Opera, New York (Music), May, 59 difficulties oft ranslation, Mar., 21
Coleman, William Three prayers of Telémakhos Gross, John A disagreeable aroma, on the decline oft he
(Poem), Apr., 43 BBC (LONDON JOURNAL), Oct., 42;
Conquest, Robert Liberals & totalitarianism, being the Coarseness & crudeness & correctness, on the
sixth in a series titled “The betrayal of liberalism? coarsening of British culture (LONDON JOURNAL),
Feb., 4 Feb., 41;
New histories for old, on the ideological rewriting of
Dean, Paul Selling Milton, a review of The Riverside history (LONDON JOURNAL), June, 36
Milton, edited by Roy Flannagan (BOOKs),
Sept., 67; Harman, Mark Franz Kafka (Letter), Mar., 77
Brontosauran bardolatry, a review of Shakespeare:
The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom Jacobs, Laura Jerome Robbins, 1918-1998 (DANCE),
(Books), Dec., 77; Sept., 48;
Postponing & deferring, a review of The Warden: A Meaningless enchainments, 07 William Forsythe,
Portrait of John Sparrow by John Lowe (BOOKS), Tivyla Tharp ¢ the excesses ofc ontemporary dance
Mar., 68; criticism (DANCE), Feb., 53
Abhorring a vacuum, a review of Shakespeare: A Johnson, Lawrence A. Concert note on Mourning
Life by Park Honan (Books), June, 78 Becomes Electra by Marvin David Levy, at the
Deutschman, Deborah Elliott Light: Clarence H. Lyric Opera, Chicago (Music), Dec., 60;
White’s Photographs (Poem), Jan., 41 Concert note on Roméo et Juliette by Charles
Dickstein, Morris The magic of contradictions: Willa Gounod, at the Lyric Opera, Chicago (Music),
Cather’s lost lady, a reconsideration of A Lost Mar., 55;
Lady, Feb., 20 Concert note on Moses und Aron byA rnold
Drake, Richard Mythmaking & the Aldo Moro case, on Schoenberg, at the Chicago Sympohony Orchestra
the assassination of Aldo Moro & Italian conspiracy (Music), May, 62
theories (NOTEBOOK), Nov., 76 Justice, Donald Ralph: a love story (Poem), June, 3
Downing, Ben A humble Cyrano, a review of For a
Modest God: New and Selected Poems by Eric Kagan, Robert History repeating itself: liberalism &
Ormsby (BOOKS), Sept., 65; foreign policy, being the eighth in a series titled
Bunk & braggadocio, a review of Lord Byron’s “The betrayal of liberalism,” Apr., 4
Jackal by David Crane (BOOKs), Apr., 72 Kimball, Roger Delacroix reconsidered, on Delacroix:
“A jelly without its mould? a review of Coleridge: The Late Work, at the Philadelphia Museum of
Darker Reflections, 1804-1834 by Richard Holmes Art, Sept., 9;
(Books), June, 68 Exhibition note on Alberto Giacometti at the
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (ART), Sept., 45;
Elshtain, Jean Bethke The bright line: liberalism & The greatest Victorian, on Walter Bagehot, Oct., 23;
religion, being the seventh in a series titled “The “One very simple principle? being the third in a
betrayal of liberalism? Mar., 4 series titled “The betrayal of liberalism, Nov., 4;
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Reply to Mark Lilla (Letter), Dec., 87; Harvard University to the Clinton scandals
Josef Pieper: Leisure & its discontents, on the (NOTEBOOK), Mar., 73
German philosopher & the meaning ofl eisure, VicDowell, Robert Where and what you are (Poem),
Jan., 23; June, 33
What the Sixties wrought, on The Sixties: Cultural VicFall, Gardner Seaweed weather (Poem), Feb., 38;
Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the he body’s colloquy (Poem), Feb., 39;
United States, c.1958-c.1974 by Arthur Marwick, Sweet cure (Poem), Feb., 40
Mar., 14; Viermelstein, David Derailed in San Francisco, a review
The permanent Auden, a reconsideration of W. H. of A Streetcar Named Desire by André Previn, at
Auden occasioned by Edward Mendelson’s Later the San Francisco Opera (Music), Dec., 57;
Auden, May, 13 Le Nozze di Susanna, a review of Le nozze di Figaro
Kramer, Hilton The betrayal of liberalism, being the first by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, at the Metropolitan
in a series titled “The betrayal of liberalism,” Opera (Music), Jan., 54;
Sept., 45 [he meanspirited wunderkind, a review of Powder
Exhibition note on George Segal, a Retrospective: Her Face by Thomas Ades, at the Brooklyn Academy
Sculptures, Paintings, and Drawings, at the Jewish of Music (Music), Mar., 51
Museum, New York (Art), Sept., 47; Meyers, Jeffrey, Repeating the old lies, on conflicting
Bonnard & “the stupidities” on Bonnard, at the accounts of the Spanish Civil War (NOTEBOOK),
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Oct., 18; Apr., 77
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Jackson Pollock & the New York School, I, being the Mezey, Robert Lais Dedicates to Aphrodité the Tools of
first part of an examination of the artist’s place in the Her Trade (Poem), Jan., 39
modernist tradition, Jan., 17; Morrone, Francis PC New York, a review of Gotham: A
Jackson Pollock & the New York School, II, being History of New York City by Edwin G. Burrows &
the second part of an examination of the artist’s place Mike Wallace (Booxs), Dec., 80
in the modernist tradition, Feb., 14 Viorson, Gary Saul “Absolute Nonsense”— Gogol’s
Kronen, Steve Southern literature (Letter), Sept., 79 tales, on The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol,
translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky
Lehrman, Lewis Alexander Hamilton: precocious & (Books), Nov., 65;
preeminent, ov Alexander Hamilton, American, Reply to Richard Pevear (Letter), Mar., 79;
by Richard Brookhiser, Apr., 31 How did Dostoevsky know?, on totalitarianism, evil
Leithauser, Brad “No other book”: Randall Jarrell’s c intellectuals, Apr., 21
criticism, an introduction to the criticism ofR andall
Jarrell, Apr., 19 Naves, Mario On a modest scale, reviews ofJ udith
Levin, Phillis Georgic (Poem), Oct., 39; Rothschild: An Artist’s Search at the Metropolitan
Double figure (Poem), Oct., 40 Museum ofA rt, New York, Norman Lewis
Lewis, Michael J. The Guggenheim in Bilbao (1909-1979) at the Studio Museum in Harlem,
(ARCHITECTURE), June, 52 New York, Unknown Terrain: The Landscapes of
Lilla, Mark Emotions of virtue (Letter), Dec., 86 Andrew Wyeth at the Whitney Museum of
Logan, William Sins & sensibility, reviews of Sweet American Art, New York & Aleksandr Rodchenko
Machine by Mark Doty, Ten Commandments by at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (ART),
J. D. McClatchy, The Bird Catcher by Marie Sept., 42;
Ponsot, A Working Girl Can’t Win by Deborah Exhibition note ov Vilhelm Hammershoi
Garrison, Babylon in a Jar by Andrew Hudgins, (1864-1916): Danish Painter of Solitude and
Blizzard of One by Mark Strand & Hay by Paul Light, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
Muldoon (VERSE CHRONICLE), Dec., 69; New York (ART), Oct., 55;
Berryman at Shakespeare, a review of Berryman’s Exhibition note 07 Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama,
Shakespeare by John Berryman (BOOKS), May, 69; 1958-1968, at the Museum ofM odern Art, New
Vanity Fair a review of On the Bus with Rosa Parks York (ArT), Oct., 56;
by Rita Dove, Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-1998 Mark Rothko at the Whitney, on the retrospective of
by Adrienne Rich, The Lost Land by Eavan the artist’s work at the Whitney Museum of
Boland, Vita Nova by Louise Gliick, Wooroloo by American Art, New York (ART), Nov., 52;
Frieda Hughes, A Kiss in Space by Mary Jo Salter Van Gogh in Washington, 07 Van Gogh’s Van
¢ Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse 0) Goghs, at the National Gallery of Art, Washington,
Anne Carson (VERSE CHRONICLE), June, 60 D.C. (ART), Dec., 545
Lyons, Donald Choosing coarseness, a review of Duchamp & Cornell, 07 Joseph Cornell/Marcel
Aristophanes, Volume 1: Acharnians, Knights & Duchamp . . . in resonance, at the Philadelphia
Volume 11: Clouds, Wasps, Peace, edited & Museum of Art (ArT), Jan., 48;
translated by Jeffrey Henderson (BOOKS), May, 76; Five Painters, reviews ofC ommon Man, Mythic
A major minor: Ezra Pound’s poetry, a consideration Vision: The Paintings of Ben Shahn at the Jewish
of Ezra Pound, June, 16 Museum in New York & recent exhibitions ofJ acob
Lawrence, Lester Johnson, Brice Marden Cc Nell
Mahoney, Daniel J. The wheel turns, a review of Blaine (Art), Feb., 49;
November 1916: The Red Wheel/Knot 11 dy \ Spring roundup, reviews of Ronald Bladen:
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T: Willetts Selected Works at P.s. 1, New York, Willard
(Books), Feb., 73 Boepple: The Sense of Things at the New York
Martinez, Roman Value-free Harvard, on the reaction at Studio School, Anne Peretz at the Salander-O’Reilly
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Galleries & Stephen Westfall at Lennon, Weinberg, O’Sullivan, John The moral consequences of
Inc. (ART), May, 56; impatience, being the tenth in a series titled “The
Exhibition note on The Museum as Muse: Artists betrayal ofl iberalism? June, 4
Reflect, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
(ART), June, 49; Penrose, James Concert note on a performance of the
Exhibition note on To Conserve a Legacy, at the Cuban pianist Juana Zayas, at Seton Hall
Studio Museum in Harlem (ART), June, 50; University, New Jersey (Music), Jan., 58
Exhibition note on Hans Hofmann, at the Pevear, Richard “Absolute Nonsense” (Letter), Mar., 78
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (ART), Pryce-Jones, David Magnifying old mistakes: the
June, $1 situation in France, 07 Commentaire: revue
Nores ¢* COMMENTS Museum fatigue, on professional trimestrielle ¢~ French particularity, Sept., 17;
fatigue in the top ranks of museums, Sept., 1; Reply to Daniel Bell (Letter), Dec., 88
A good scam?, on the Modern Library’s list of the 10
best novels written in English since 1900, Sept., 2; Rawson, Claude A working life, a review of Samuel
Exit “affirmative action,’ enter “race-sensitive Johnson: The Life ofa n Author by Lawrence
admissions policies? on William G. Bowen’s & Lipking (Books), June, 74
Derek Bok’s The Shape of the River: Long-Term Richman, Robert Prosody atrocities, a review of All the
Consequences of Considering Race in College Fun’s in How You Say a Thing: An Explanation
Admissions, Oct., 1; of Meter and Versification by Timothy Steele
Brief lives, on Penguin Lives, the new sertes of (Books), Apr., 70
biographies from Viking-Penguin, Oct., 3; Rollyson, Carl Reporting Nuremberg, on the war crimes
Liberal screaming, on “Going Down Screaming,” trial reporting of Martha Gellhorn, Janet Flanner
Andrew Sullivan’s New York Times article of c Rebecca West (NOTEBOOK), Sept., 74
October 11, Nov., 1; After the fall, a review of Ex-Friends by Norman
“In the end character is destiny,’ ov the state of the Podhoretz (BooKs), Mar., 62
press during the Clinton presidency, Nov., 25 Russello, Gerald J. A hero for the truth, a review of The
James W. Tuttleton, 1934-1998, on the life & work of Unbought Spirit: A John Jay Chapman Reader,
one ofA merica’s wisest ™ most percipient critics, edited by Richard Stone (BOOKS), Jan., 74
Dec. i
Good & bad news at CUNY, on language standards Salter, Mary Jo Alternating Currents (Poem), Dec., 34
at the City University of New York, Jan., 1; Schmertz, Mildred F. A clean, well-lighted place, a
Off the record, on the New York Times- review of Towards a New Museum by Victoria
manufactured scandal at the Archives of American Newhouse, Oct., 71
Apt, Jat... 2: Schwartz, Stephen A shameful book, a review of The
Strange conjunctions, on literary critic George Steiner Shameful Life of Salvador Dalit by Ian Gibson
receiving the Truman Capote Lifetime Achievement (Books), June, 84
Award, Jan., 3; Scruton, Roger Rousseau & the origins of liberalism,
Only the life of the mind, on the end of the required being the second in a series titled “The betrayal of
core curriculum at the University of Chicago, Feb., 1; liberalism,” Oct., 5;
Below the fold, on fatuous stories in The New York “The Aesthetics of Music, an exchange between
Times, Feb., 3; Horace W. Brock & Roger Scruton, Mar., 31
A war without armistice, 07 President Clinton’s Silber, John Procedure or dogma: the core of
acquittal > the culture wars, Mar., 1, liberalism, being the ninth in a series titled “The
A louse & a flea, on Christopher Hitchens, Mar., 2; betrayal of liberalism,” May, 4
The one unforgiveable sin, on Elia Kazan’s Academy Silver, Daniel J. A bundle of paradoxes, a review of
Award for lifetime achievement, Apt., 1; Daniel Defoe: The Life and Strange, Surprising
Product placement 1o1, 0” brand names in textbooks, Adventures by Richard West (BOOKs),
Apr., 2; Oct., 64
Deviant chic, on the mainstreaming of pornography, Simon, John Partying on Parnassus: the New York
Apr., 35 School Poets, occasioned by David Lehman’s The
More & more of everything, on the so-called “culture Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York
boom,” May, 1; School of Poets, Oct., 31;
Partly infuriating, partly pathetic, on Philosophy and Concert note on Kata Kabanova by Leos Janacek, at
Literature’s annual Bad Writing Contest, May, 3; the Metropolitan Opera House, New York (Music),
Over the line at Wesleyan, on a class in pornography Mar., 54;
at Wesleyan University, June, 1; Victimized Verlaine, 02 One Hundred and One
Incontinent moralism, on Susan Sontag and the war Poems by Paul Verlaine, translated by Norman R.
in Kosovo, June, 3 Shapiro, June, 2
Steyn, Mark The entertainment state, on the historical
Ormsby, Eric Franz Kafka & the trip to Spindelmiihle, distortions ofp opular culture, Sept., 24;
on The Castle ¢> its translations, Nov., 32; Broadway blues, on the diminishing fortunes ofm usic
A sad & angry summa, a review of The Triumph of on Broadway (THEATER), Oct., 453
Love by Geoffrey Hill (Booxs), Feb., 64; Swans & swains, on Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake
Reply to Mark Harman (Letter), Mar., 78; (THEATER), Nov., 43;
Nostalgia for bad times, on how the Czech Republic “Corpus” delecti, on Terrence McNally’s Corpus
views its past (LETTER FROM PRAGUE), May, 40 Christi (THEATER), Dec., 49;
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Flat-footed Wolfe, 072 On the Town ¢& other plays Goya in Philadelphia, a review of Goya: Another
(THEATER), Jan., 43; Look, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Art),
Sad, perfunctory, mechanical, a review of The Blue June, 44
Room ¢% other plays (THEATER), Feb., 44; n, Robley Bones (Poem), Nov., 39
The revenge of art, a review of Death of a Salesman ischuttle, Keith Liberalism & imperialism, being the
ce other plays (THEATER), Mar., 46; fourth in a sertes titled “The betrayal of liberalism?
No business like show business, a review of Dec. 4;
Annie Get Your Gun (THEATER), Apr., 46; Edward Said’s “Orientalism” revisited, on the
What the Brits are swearing, reviews of pritings oft he literary critic @ academic celebrity,
Closer ¢ other British imports (THEATER), Jan., 30
May, 46; negarten, Renee We'll always have Paris, a review of
Saying nothing, at great length, on the Tony awards \ Corner in the Marais: Memoir of a Paris
(THEATER), June, 39 Neighborhood by Alex Karmel (Books), Mar., 65
z1, David On a cliff above Seal Rocks (Poem),
Teichman, Jenny The philosophy of We, a review of May, 375
Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers, Invention with seascape (Poem), May, 38;
Volume 3 by Richard Rorty (BOOKS), Sept., 60; What to do with a mountain lake (Poem), May, 39
On the side of truth, 07 Manifesto of a Passionate
Moderate: Unfashionable Essays by Susan Haack Books considered
(Books), Nov., 71
Tillinghast, Richard The curse of the Irish, a review of ig, Gerard The Politics of Spanish American
No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of ‘Modernismo” By Exquisite Design (Mark
Flann O’Brien by Anthony Cronin (BOOKS), Falcoff), Dec., 85
Sept., 71; 1, Michael Zarafa (Christopher Carduff), Apr., 75
Reply to Steve Kronen (Letter), Sept., 80; Martin Heavy Water & Other Stories (Brooke
The ironic tiger, on Irish culture & the economic boom Allen), Mar., 70
(LETTER FROM DUBLIN), Dec., 44 wy, Mark Lord Berners: The Last Eccentric (Joseph
Tomlinson, Charles Snowbound (Poem), Jan., 40 Epstein), Nov., 16
tophanes Volume 1: Acharnians, Knights ¢
van den Haag, Dr. Ernest Shades of Gray (Letter), Volume 11: Clouds, Wasps, Peace edited
Sept., 79 translated by Jeffrey Henderson (Donald Lyons),
May, 76
Wayne, Kenneth Matisse: the genius as late bloomer, a idge, Beryl Master Georgie (Brooke Allen),
review of The Unknown Matisse A Life of Henri Nov., 60
Matisse: The Early Years, 1869-1909 by Hilary cer, Pat Another World (Brooke Allen), May, 74
Spurling (BOOKs), Jan., 65 Barnes, Bernadine Michelangelo’s “Last Judgement”:
Weiner, Lauren Dawn Powell: the fruits of revival, on rhe Renaissance Response (Creighton Gilbert),
Dawn Powell’s novels, June, 23 Nov., 68
Wilkin, Karen A Degas doubleheader, on Degas and ler, Thomas, editor Personals (Paula Friedman),
the Little Dancer at the Sterling and Francine Jan., 76
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass. & Degas yman, John Berryman’s Shakespeare (William
at the Races at the National Gallery of Art, Logan), May, 69
Washington, D.C. (ART), Sept., 35; Harold Shakespeare: The Invention of the
An anniversary in Montreal: “Refus global” at 50, o7 Human (Paul Dean), Dec., 77
Borduas and the Automatist Epic at the Musée and, Eavan The Lost Land (William Logan),
dart contemporain de Montréal & Peinture, June, 60
Peinture at the Belgo Building, Montreal (ART), ton, Isabel Under Gemini (Christopher Carduff ),
Oet., 50; \pr., 74
A Northern Renaissance at the Metropolitan, a khiser, Richard Alexander Hamilton, American
review of From Van Eyck to Brueghel: Early Lewis E. Lehrman), May, 31
Netherlandish Painting in the Metropolitan rows, Edwin G. & Mike Wallace Gotham: A History
Museum of Art (ART), Nov., 48; of New York City (Francis Morrone), Dec., 80
A thoroughly modern Monet, a review of Monet in wson, Anne Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
the 2oth Century, at the Museum of Fine Arts in William Logan), June, 60
Boston, Dec., 29; man, John Jay The Unbought Spirit: A John Jay
Exhibition Note on “Bob Thompson,’ at the Chapman Reader edited by Richard Stone (Gerald
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York J. Russello), Jan., 74
(ArT), Jan., 56; udhuri, Nirad C. Three Horsemen of the New
The art of the Baule people, a review of Baule: \pocalypse (Christopher Carduff), Feb., 77
African Art/Western Eyes, at The Museum for ne, David Lord Byron’s Jackal (Ben Downing),
African Art, New York, Feb., 32; Apr., 72
Max Beckmann & the School of Paris, a review of
Beckmann and Paris, at the Saint Louis Art Times of Flann O’Brien (Richard Tillinghast),
Museum, Apr., 37; Sept., 71
Disaster Relief, a review of Floodsongs, at the ! nningham, Michael The Hours (Brooke Allen),
Museum ofM odern Art, New York (ArT), May, 51; June, 81
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Doty, Mark Sweet Machine (William Logan), Dec., 69 The Invisible Art of Editing (Brooke Allen),
Dove, Rita On the Bus with Rosa Parks, (William Sept., 56
Logan), June, 60 Mendelson, Edward Later Auden (Roger Kimball),
Faulks, Sebastian Charlotte Gray: A Novel (Brooke May, 13
Allen), Apr., 63 Milton, John The Riverside Milton edited by Roy
Fromkin, David The Way of the World: From the Flannagan (Paul Dean), Sept., 67
Dawn of Civilizations to the Eve of the Muldoon, Paul Hay (William Logan), Dec., 75
Twenty-first Century (Christopher Carduff) , Newhouse, Victoria Towards a New Museum (Mildred
Apr., 74 A. Schmertz), Oct., 71
Fuller, John W.H. Auden: A Commentary (Roger Ormsby, Eric For a Modest God: New and Selected
Kimball), May, 13 Poeins (Ben Downing), Sept., 65
Foden, Giles The Last King of Scotland (Brooke Allen), O’Toole, Fintan The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan,
Apr., 60 1751-1816 (Brooke Allen), Dec., 21
Garrison, Deborah A Working Girl Can't Win (William Partridge, Loren Michelangelo—The Last Judgement:
Logan), Dec., 72 A Glorious Restoration with contributions by
Gibson, Ian The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali Fabrizio Mancinelli & Gianluigi Colalucet
(Stephen Schwartz), June, 84. (Creighton Gilbert), Nov., 68
Gill, Gillian Mary Baker Eddy (Marc M. Arkin), Pieper, Joseph Leisure: The Basis of Culture (Roger
Jan., 70 Kimball), Jan., 23
Gliick, Louise Vita Nova (William Logan), June, 60 Podhoretz, Norman Ex-Friends (Carl Rollyson), Mar., 62
Gogol, Nikolai The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol Ponsot, Marie The Bird Catcher (William Logan),
translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volkhonsky Dec., 69
(Gary Saul Morson), Nov., 65 Rich, Adrienne Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-1998
Gress, David From Plato to NATO: The Idea of the (William Logan), June, 60
West and Its Opponents (James Bowman), Rorty, Richard Truth and Progress: Philosophical
Feb., 71 Papers, Volume 3 (Jenny Teichman), Sept., 60
Gross, John, editor The New Oxford Book of English Ross, Lillian Here But Not Here: A Love Story (Brooke
Prose (Joseph Epstein), Apr., 65 Allen), Sept., 56
Haack, Susan Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate: Said, Edward Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the
Unfashionable Essays (Jenny Teichman), Nov., 71 Orient (Keith Windschuttle), Jan., 30
Hamburger, Philip Friends Talking in the Night: Sixty Salter, Mary Jo A Kiss in Space (William Logan),
Years of Writing for “The New Yorker” June, 60
(Christopher Carduff ), Feb., 78 Scruton, Roger The Aesthetics of Music (Horace W.
Hamilton, Ian A Gift Imprisoned: The Poetic Life of Brock ¢ Roger Scruton), Mar., 31
Matthew Arnold (Christopher Carduff) , June, 90 Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander November 1916: The Red
Hill, Geoffrey The Triumph of Love (Eric Ormsby), Wheel/Knot 11 translated by H. T. Willets (Daniel
Feb., 64 J. Mahoney), Feb., 73
Holmes, Richard Coleridge: Darker Reflections, Spurling, Hilary The Unknown Matisse A Life of
1804-1834 (Ben Downing), June, 68 Henri Matisse: The Early Years, 1869-1908
Honan, Park Shakespeare: A Life (Paul Dean), (Kenneth Wayne), Jan., 65
June, 78 Steele, Timothy Ali the Fun’s in How You Say a Thing:
Hudgins, Andrew Babylon in a Jar (William Logan), An Explanation of Meter and Versification
Dec., 69 (Robert Richman), Apr., 70
Hughes, Frieda Wooroloo (William Logan), June, 60 Strand, Mark Blizzard of One (William Logan),
Jacobson, Dan Heshel’s Kingdom (Christopher Dec., 69
Carduff) ,J une, 88 Sturgis, Matthew Aubrey Beardsley: A Biography
Jolas, Eugene Man From Babel (Christopher Carduff), (Brooke Allen), Feb., 67
Nov., 74 Tolstoy, Leo What Is Art? (James Sloan Allen), Dec., 15
Kafka, Franz The Castle translated by Mark Harman Traxel, David 1898: The Birth of the American Century
(Eric Ormsby), Nov., 32 (Christopher Carduff), Nov., 73
Karmel, Alex A Corner in the Marais (Renee Updike, John Bech at Bay (Brooke Allen), Nov., 60
Winegarten), Mat., 65 Verlaine, Paul One Hundred and One Poems by Paul
Klibansky, Raymond Le Philosophe et la mémoire du Verlaine, translated by Norman R. Shapiro (John
si¢cle (J. Duncan Berry), Jan., 78 Simon), June, 29
Lewis, Jeremy Cyril Connolly: A Life (Christopher Wallace, Mike & Edwin G. Burrows Gotham: A History
Carduff) ,F eb., 79 of New York City (Francis Morrone), Dec., 80
Lipking, Lawrence Samuel Johnson: The Life of an West, Richard Daniel Defoe: The Life and Strange,
Author (Claude Rawson), June, 74 Surprising Adventures (Daniel J. Silver), Oct., 64
Lowe, John The Warden: A Portrait of John Sparrow Winters, Nancy Man Flies: The Story of Alberto
(Paul Dean), Mar., 68 Santos-Dumont, Master of the Balloon,
McClatchy, J. D. Ten Commandments (William Conquerer of the Air (Christopher Carduff) ,
Logan), Dec., 69 Nov., 73
McEwan, Ian Amsterdam (Brooke Allen), Apr., 60 Wolfe, Tom A Man in Full (James Bowman), Jan., 67
Mehta, Ved Remembering Mr. Shawn’s “New Yorker”: Ziegler, Philip Osbert Sitwell (Brooke Allen), Oct., 68
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