The New Criterion 2004 - 2005: Vol 23 Index

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The New Criterion
Volume 23 September 20047 —June 2005
Allen, Brooke Anthony Powell, Sept., 35; y, Tont The saddhu responds a reply to Theodore
Capote reconsidered, Nov., 1 Dalrymple (LETTER), June, 97
Tom Wolfe’s school days a review of 1A m Charlot ian, James Smug self-righteousness on the decline of
Simmons by Tom Wolfe (Books), Jan., 61; political debate (THE MEDIA), Sept., 53;
The White Queen? a review of Catherine de Med .hetorical recklessness (THE MEDIA), Oct., 58;
by Leonie Frieda (BooKs), Feb., 71; Outraged Intellectuals (THE MEDIA), Nov., 31;
Betjeman: a “whim of iron” March, 1 Cutting moral corners (THE MEDIA), Dec., 58;
The house on Middagh Street a review of Februa Honor enduring (THE MEDIA), Jan., 53;
House by Sherill Tippins (BOoKs), June, 74 Showing that you care (THE MEDIA), Feb., 52;
Amadaon, Samuel Prosody, of course a % f ly to David -section politics (THE MEDIA), March, 55;
Yezzi (LETTER), June, 98 Responding unkind (THE MEDIA), April, 61;
Arkin, Mare On the march a review of Liberty & Fre¢ Marketplace morality (THE MEDIA), May, 56;
dom by David Hackett Fischer (BOoKs), June What “objectivity”? (THE MEDIA), June, 61
Azevedo, Neil Animi cruciatus (POEM), Jan., 34 Geoffrey Mezzo cammin (POEM), Nov., 26;
Ovid old (PoEM), Nov., 27;
Barnett, Lisa Entasis (POEM), Oct., 35 Weighing light (POEM), Nov., 28
Bauerlein, Mark Our black jeremiah a review of Dei 1, Dan Though angelless (POEM), Nov., 29
cracy Matters by Cornel West (Booxs), Dec.,
Dumb & dumber a revieowf Everything Bad Is Gox pion, Peter Exhibition note on American Modern
tor Youb y Steven Johnson (BOOKS), June, 91 1t Hackett Freedman (ArT), March, 49;
Beck, Stefan Why the long face? a review of Welcom« Rochester’s honesty, April, 17
Lizard Motel by Barbara Feinberg (BOOKs), itch, Hal A naval battle a reply to Robert Messenger
Sept., 69: LETTER), June, 98
Authenticity blues a review of The Artificial Wh yuest, Robert The whys of art, Dec., 5
Man by Stanley Crouch (Books), Oct., 71 Bill Living (POEM), June, 30
Shorter notice a review of In the Shadow of N
Towers by Art Spiegelman (BOOKs), Oct., ymple, Theodore Mr. Hyde & the epidemiology of
Shorter notice a review of Ancestral Shadows 0 evil, Sept., 24;
sell Kirk (Booxs), Nov., 76; essons of “Lonelyhearts,” Nov., 17;
Summer reading a review of Bound to Please 01 The saddhu of sodomy a review of Surrender by Toni
Michael Dirda (Books), I Yec.. 8 Bentley (NOTEBOOK), Dec., 85;
Shorter notice a review of The Case for Democra Desert-island reading, Feb., 21;
by Sharansky & Dermer (BOOKS), Dec., 83; \n imaginary “scandal,” May, 90;
Shorter notice a review of Our Oldest Enemy Bad counsel a review of One Nation Under Therapy
Mill& eMolresk y (BOOKS), : by Satel & Sommers (BOOKS), June, 84
Shorter notice a review of Children at War by P Vi
Singer (BOOKS), Feb., 75; sarbarity without vigor a review ofT he Strange
Shorter notice a review of The Secret Wars of Judi Death of Moral Britain by Christie Davi
Bari by Kate Coleman (Booxs), March, 76; Books), Dec., 71;
Hybrid etymology a reviewo f Break, Blow, Burn Butler’s unhappy youth, Jan., 11;
“Camille Paglia (Books), April, 75; Pundits & panjandrums, March, 77;
The elfin mind a review of Hans Christian Anders Chekhov & Tolstoy (RECONSIDERATIONSAp)ri,l , 31;
by Jens Anderson (BOOKS), May, 88; Mau Mau revisted, June, 21
Kinderkampf a review of Extremely Loud & In im, Paul Thom Gunn, 1929-2004 (NOTEBOOK),
credibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (BOOK Nov., 78;
June, 92 Being a poet” a review of Stephen Spender by John
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Sutherland & New Collected Poems by Stephen Jacobs, Laura Assoluta, Oct., 14;
Spender (BOOKS), Feb., 615 Martha contra mundum (DANCE), June, 31
Robert Southey: pathos & tragedy a review of Rob- Jacobson, Dan Philip Larkin’s “element.” Feb., 14
ert Southey: Poetical Works (Books), April, 66; Johnson, Daniel Eiwv feste Burg a revieowf AM ighty
Ambiguous type a review of William Empson by John Fortress by Steven Ozment (BOOKS), Nov., 65;
Haffenden (BOOKs), 73 Who needs “a new history of German literature”? 07
Derbyshire, John Alfred Duggan’s past, Feb., 28 A New History of German Literature, May, 10
Dhuga, U. S. Etc. (POEM), Sept., 29
Di Piero, W. S. Exhibition note o7 John Szarkowski: Keegan, John The self-made Scot on Joln Buchan
Photographs at the San Francisco Museum of (RECONSIDERATIONS), Oct., 38
Modern Art (ART), June, 47 Kimball, Roger Does shame have a future?, Sept., 4;
Downing, Ben Kiblah (POEM), Feb., 37 Shorter notice a review of Multitude by Hardt &
Durkin, Kevin Lightning bugs (POEM), Sept., 31 Negri (BOOKS), Sept., 76;
Shorter notice a review of Critique of Dialectical
Emmerich, André Greenberg & Frankenthaler excerpts Reason by Jean-Paul Sartre (BOOKS), Sept., 76;
from his memoir My Life with Art, Dec., 29 Shorter notice a review of The Bookshop at 10 Cur-
Epstein, Daniel Mark The Metaphysics of Wilbur on zon Street edited by John Saumarez Smith
Collected Poems 1943-2004 by Richard Wilbur, (Books), Oct., 77;
April, 4; Saintly institutions? Notes on a modern prejudice,
Hylas who? a reply to John Koethe (LETTER), June, 98 Nov., 5;
Shorter notice a review of T. S. Eliot: The Contem-
Falcoff; Mark Conrad’s Latin America on Joseph Conraad’s porary Reviews edited by Jewel Spears Brooker
Nostromo (RECONSIDERATIONS), Jan., 35 (Books), Nov., 77;
Finch, Charlie A curious omission a reply to Stephen Shorter notice a review of Weather the Storm by Peter
Schwartz (LETTER), June, 97 H. Wood (Books), Dec., 82;
Foy, John Long live rock (POEM), Dec., 38; Oxford’s new “Dictionary of National Biography,”
Route 17 (PoEM), Dec., 39 Jan., 4;
Frost, Gerald An impossible dream a review of The The uses of lexica a reply to Martha Nussbaum
United States of Europe by T: R. Reid (BOOKs), (LETTER), Jan., 79;
Nov., 73 Museum note on The Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts, Philadelphia (Art), Feb., 45;
Gardner, Martin Theory of everything a review of The Retaking the university: a battle plan, May, 4;
Road to Realityb y Roger Penrose (BOOKS), Oct., 65 Leszek Kolakowski, June, 4
Gibson, Eric Exhibition note on The Art of Romare Kirsch, Adam Travels in “The Waste Land” oz The An-
Bearden at the Whitney (ArT), Dec., 47 notated Waste Land, April, 12
Grassi, Marco Faking it a review of The Expert Versus Koethe, John Hylas who? a reply to Daniel Mark Epstein
the Object (BOOKS), Sept., 64; (LETTER), June, 97
Reflections on taste on the art critic Roger Fry, Dec., 24; Kramer, Hilton Seurat’s “Sunday” painting 07 Seurat
The Metropolitan Duccio (NOTEBOOK), Feb., 77; and the Making of “La Grande Jatte” at the Art
he Maastricht fair (ART), April, 48 Institute of Chicago (ART), Sept., 46;
Greenberg, Martin In search of Don Quixote, Oct., 28; The “Memory” of Czeslaw Milosz, 1911-2004
The difficult justice of Melville & Kleist, March, 24 (NOTEBOOK), Oct., 79;
Greger, Deborah On the feast of innocents (POEM), Shorter notice a review of Many Are Called by Walker
Mav, 37 Evans (BoOKs), Nov., 76
Gross, John The phobia of phobias (LONDON
JOURNAL), Sept., 3 33; Lewis, Michael J. MOMA reopened, Dec., 15;
The irresistible rise of Trevor who? (LONDON Rara avis a review ofJ ohn James Audubon by Richard
JOURNAL), March, 38 Rhodes (BOOKS), Jan., 66
Grosz, David Great Scott a review of Reliquiz Trot- Lewis, Tess Literature v. trivia a review of Thank You for
cosienses by Sir Walter Scott, Sept., 74 Not Reading by Dubravka Unresic (BOOKS),
Sept., 71;
Hamrick, S. J. Deceiving the deceivers a reply to David Boy George a review of George Sand by Elizabeth
Pryce-Jones (LETTER), Jan., 80 Harlan (Books), May, 81
Hanson, Victor Davis A quintessential general a review of Logan, William Cedar Key after storm (POEM), Sept., 29;
Ulysses $. Grant by Josiah Bunting IIT (BooKs), One if by land reviews of Danger on Peaks by Gary
Nov., 68 Snyder; American Smooth by Rita Dove; Gil-
Harmon, Joshua Overpass (POEM), Jan., 32; gamesh by Derrek Hines; Gilgamesh: A New
Landscape (POEM), Jan., 33 English Version by Stephen Mitchell; The Prodigal
Hart, David B. Beyond disbeliefa review of The by Derek Walcott; Second Space by Czeslaw Milosz
Twilight of Atheism by Alister McGrath (Books), (VERSE CHRONICLE), Dec., 63;
June, 78 The Great American Desert reviews of Where Shall I
Hart, Jeffrey The last great Fair (NOTEBOOR), Jan., 74 Wander by John Ashbery; Elegy on Toy Piano by
Hay, William Anthony The royal sea a review of Com- Dean Young; Overlord by Jorie Graham; Black
mand of the Ocean by N. A. M. Rodger (Books), Maria by Kevin Young; Delights & Shadows by
May, 86 Ted Kooser; Flying at Night by Ted Kooser; The
Hollander, John Fiddle-faddle (POEM), May, 34 Poetry Home Repair Manual by Ted Kooser; Col-
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lected Poems by Richard Wilbur (VERS Masur with the New York Philharmonic; Janice
CHRONICLE), June, 74 Weber at the Goethe Institut (Music), Feb., 47;
New York chronicle reviews of Lament & Prayer by
Malcolm, Noel Serious imagination a review of Imag) the New York Philharmonic; Pelléas et Mélisande
ing the Real by Robert Grant (BooKs), March at the New York Philharmonic; Vox Vocal Ensemble
Mansfield, Harvey The manliness of Theodore at Columbia University; the Bolshoi Theatre at the
Roosevelt a review of Letters & Speeches & World Economic Forum; The Cleveland Orchestra
Rough Riders by Theodore Roosevelt, March, 4 with soloist Radu Lupu (Music), March, 50;
Maxwell, Glyn Three poems from “The Sugar Mile New York chronicle reviews of the New York Philhar-
(PoEMs), March, 33 monic; the Emerson, Orion & Brentano String
McGurn, William wre: Against the prevailing winds Quartets; the Metropolitan Opera’s Barber of
reviofe Miwle s Gone By by William F. Buckle Seville; Andre Previn with the Oslo Philharmonic at
(BooKs), Sept., 58 Carnegie Hall (Music), April, 55;
Mehigan, Joshua In the home of my sitter (POEM New York chronicle reviews of Cavalleria Rusticana
Dec., 36; c Pagliace: at the Metropolitan Opera; the New
The interior of a heron’s ege: Michael D« maghy York Philharmonic’s program of Bach & Messiaen;
1954-2004 (NOTEBOOK), April, 77 Orlando & La Fanciulla del West at City Opera;
Menashe, Samuel Due soldi di speranza (POEM), Fe the Orchestra of St. Luke’s “Postcard from Prague”
Messenger, Robert Patrick O’Brian’s naval mastery 07 program at Carnegie Hall; two Schubert concerts at
release of The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Nove the Chamber Music Society at Lincoln Center;
by Patrick O'Brian, Mav, 26; Valery Gergiera t Carnegie Hall (Music), May, s1;
A naval battle a reply to Hal Colebatch (LETTER New York chronicle reviews of The Dresden
June, 98 Staatskapelle’s two nights at Carnegie Hall; The
Meyers, Jeffrey Morisot & Manet, Jan., 26; Pearl Fishers at City Opera; a new work by Jefferson
Gangreene a review of The Life of Graham Greene Friedman at the New York Philharmonic: two con-
Volume Three: 1955-1991 by Norman Sherr certs by the Bamberg Symphony at Avery Fischer
(Books), March, 71 Hall; Renee Fleming at Zankel Hall (Music),
Miller, John J. The world’s first story reviews of Gil June, 54
gamesh translated by Derrek Hines & Gilgames Notes & COMMENTS
A New English Version translated by Stephen Exceptionally tasteful? on SITE Santa Fe, Sept., 1;
Mitchell (Books), Oct., 74 Meanwhile, in the ivory tower, Sept., 2;
Minogue, Kenneth The power of journalism, Feb., 4 Ave et vale, Sept., 3;
Morrone, Francis Starting from zeroa review of Up fr Donald Justice, 1925-2005, Sept., 3;
Zero by Paul Goldberger (BOOKs), Jan., 69 No Lapham matter, Oct., 1;
Morson, Gary Saul Sideshadows: the determination Derrida declawed, Nov., 1;
free will, May, 17 What were they thinking?, Nov., 4;
Mullen, Alexandra Miss Pym disposes a review of No The New Criterion on art, Dec., 1;
Soft Incense (BooKs), May, 85; \n exemplar of rehabilitation”?, Dec., 2;
The soul of wit a review of Ogden Nash by Dougla Business as usual, Dec., 4;
M. Parker (Books), June, 95 The Barnes Foundation, RIP, Jan., 1;
Rise of the indoctrinologists, Jan., 3;
Nordlinger, Jay Great conductors, the end on recordin Guy Davenport, 1927-2005, Feb., 1;
of Eduard van Beinum, Rudolf Kempe, Rafael Arthur Miller’s conscience, March, 1;
Kubelik, Sergiu Celibidache, Vi ‘ilhelm Furtwang Prozac for terrorists, March, 2;
> George Szell (Music), Sept., 48; Columbia’s Jewish problem, March, 3;
Salzburg chronicle reviews of the Czech Philharmoi Full employment av Deutsch, March, 3;
ec» Chorus; a recital by singer Violeta Urmanay; Dic \ thank-you to Ward Churchill, Colorado, April, 1;
tote Stadt (Music), Oct., 53; The New Criterion Ga poetry, April, 3;
New York chronicle reviews of the New York Philha Che virtues of a Cambridge history, May, 1;
monic; the Chamber Music Soctety of Lincoln Une puissance musulmane?.” May, 3;
Center; the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Unheralded genius?” May, 3;
Hall; Traviata, Daphne c Platée at City Opera; Faculty follies: a selection, June, 1;
Otello & Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera New Grub Street, June, 2;
(Music), Nov., 44; Some words of thanks, June, 3
New York chronicle reviews of the “Great Performei ssbaum, Martha The uses of lexica a reply to Roger
Series at Avery Fisher Hall; the St. Petersburg Plu Kimball (LETTER), Jan., 79
harmonic at Carnegie Hall; Haroun & the Sea of
Stories at City Opera (Music), Dec., 53; msby, Eric Petrarch: a splendid excess, Sept., 18;
New York chronicle reviews of City Opera’s Cin- \ song & a mistake a review of Metamorphoses
derella; the Orion String Quartet at Alice Tully translatebdy Charles Martin (BooKs), Nov., 61;
Hall. the New York Philharmonic; Tannhauser at The jewel in the cobra’s mouth a review of The Clay
the Metropolitan Opera (Music), Jan., 473 Sanskrit Library edited by Richard Gombrich
New York chronicle on “Steven Isserlis & Friends” at BOOKS), May, 68;
Zankel Hall; Janaéek’s Kata Kabanova at the Cellar (POEM), June,
Metropolitan Opera; Christmas concerts by the Cli Sullivan, John Gulliver’s Travails: The U.S. in the
ofK ing’s College & the Orchestra of St. Luke’s; Ku post-Cold-War world, Oct., 4
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Exhibition note on Jacques-Louis David: Empiret o
Paris edited by Adam Gopnik (BooKs), Sept., 77; Exileat The J. Paul Getty Museum & the Sterling &
Shorter notice a review of Hotel Bemelmans by Lud- Francine Clark Art Institute (ArT), June, 49;
wig Bemelmans (BOOKS), Sept., 77; Gallery chronicle 07 Marvin Bileck & Emily Nel-
Kermit Swiler Champa, 1939-2004 (NOTEBOOK), ligan at Alexandre Gallery; Tim Gardner at 303
Sept., 78; Gallery; Jacqueline Gourevitch & David Hock-
Gallery chronicle 07 Scott LoBaidoa t Tribute Gal- nev at Mary Ryan Gallery; Richard Baker at Tibor
lery; Will Cotton at Mary Boone Chelsea Gallery; de Nagy (ART), June, 51;
Modern Masters at Salander-O’Reilly Galleries; Pearlstein, Philip A conversation on art with Philip
Lois Dodd: Flashings at Alexandre Gallery; Joan earlstein & David Yezzi, Dec., 17
Mitchell at Mary Ryan Gallery; Under the In- Pettus, Peter Exhibition note o7 The Aztec Empire at
fluence at Barbara Mathes Gallery; Ai Weiwei at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (ART),
Robert Miller Gallery (ART), Oct., 48; Dec., 49
Gallery chronicleo 7 Inventions: Recent Paintings Pryce-Jones, David The usual suspects reviews of Deceiv-
by Caio Fonseca at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, ing the Deceivers by S. J. Hamrick & The Private
Washington, D.C.; Caio Fonseca, New Paintings Life of Kim Philby by Rufina Philby (BOOKs),
at Paul Kasmin Gallery; Richmond Burton at Oct., 68;
Cheim & Read; Louisa Matthiasdottir: A Dizzy’s dominion a review of Disraeli by Christopher
Retrospective at Scandinavia House, New York; Hibbert (Books), Jan., 64:
Rackstraw Downes, New Paintings at Beth Deceiving the Deceivers a reply to S. J. Hamrick
( ‘uningham Gallery (ArT), Nov., 41; (LETTER), Jan., 80;
Pictures from an institution the author consults Ran- André Malraux: Politicizing literature, fictionalizing
dell Jarrell’s classic novel upon revisiting Ins own politics a review of Malraux by Olivier Todd,
Benton, Dec., 33; (Books), March, 6
Exhibition note o7 Calder, Miroa t The Phillips Col Reticent achievement a review of Quicksands: A
lection, Washington, D.C. (ART), Dec., $15 Memorr by Sybille Bedford (BooKs), May, 76
Shorter notice a review of Wodehouse: A Life 0
Robert McCrum (Booxs), Dec., 84; Roberts, Andrew Misplaced guilt a review of In Praise of
Gallery chronicleo 7 Beckmann—Picasso/Picasso Empires by Deepak Lal (Books), March, 68;
Beckmann at Richard L. Feigen & Co.; Ralph Pitt boss a review of William Pitt the Younger dy
Eugene Meatvard at the International Centero f William Hague (Books), April, 73
Photography; James Gillray at the New York Public Rogers, Elizabeth Barlow Rock rage a review of A Rage
Library (ART), Jan., 44; for Rock Gardening: The Story of Reginald Far-
Shorter notice a review of My Life by Giuseppe rer by Nicola Shulman (BooKs), Oct., 72;
Garibaldi (BooKs), Jan., 72; On the waterfront a review of Waterfront by Phillip
Gallery chronicle 07 Hans Hofmann: Search for the Lopate (Books), May, 78
Real at Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art; Robert De Rollyson, Carl James & the Zeitgeist a review of Author,
Niro, Sr.: Paintings at Salander-O’Reilly Galleries; Author by David Lodge & The Master by Colm
Jane Freilicher: An Overview at Tibord e Nagy; Toibin (BooKs), Feb., 67
Milton Avery: Onrushing Waves at Knoedler & Ruden, Sarah The North Wind’s daughter (POEM),
Company (ART), Feb., 43; Oct., 36;
Shorter notice a reviewo fT he Life of Isamu World literature in 1928 (REFLECTIONS), Nov., 50
Noguchi: Journey without Borders by Masayo Russell, John The insider’s insider a review of Duveen by
Duus (BOoKs), Feb., 76; Meryle Secrest (BOOKS), Oct., 63;
Avec la main gauche 07 Cy Twombly: Fifty Years of Exhibition note 07 Max Ernst: A Retrospective at
Works on Paper at the Whitney Museum; John The Metropolitan Museum of Art (ART), June, 45
Walker: Collage at Knoedler & Company; George Russello, Gerald Georgics on my mind a review of Virgil’s
McNeil: Paintings at Salander-O’Reilly Galleries Georgics translated by Janet Lembke (BOOKS),
ART), March, 46; June, 89
Shorter notice 07 Reading Biography by Carl Rol-
lyson (BooKs), March, 75; Schmertz, Mildred F. Hanging judge a review of Art &
The New York fairs 07 The Armory Show: The In the Power of Placement by Victoria Newhouse
ternational Faiofr Ne w Art at Piers 90 C 92; The (Books), June, 87
ADAA Art Show at the 67th Street Armory; The Schwartz, Stephen A literary river a review of The Case of
AIPAD Photography Show at the New York Comrade Tulayev by Victor Serge, Sept., 68;
Hilton; The Outsider Art Fair at the Puck Build Infinitely abysmal a review of Tales by H. P. Lovecraft
ing; The Winter Antiques Show at the 67th Street (Books), May, 75
Armory (ART), April, 51; Scruton, Roger Wagner: moralist or monster? a review of
Gallery chronicle on Adrienne Farb at Mary Ryan Richard Wagner, Last of the Titans by Joachim
Gallery; Graham Nickson: Painting at Salander- Kohler (BooKs) Feb., 57
OReilly Galleries; Wayne Thiebaud Since 1962: A Simon, John Bardolatry made easy a review of Will in the
Survey at Allan Stone Gallery; Thornton Willis & World by Stephen Greenblatt (BooKs), April, 70
James Little: Raising the Bar at Sideshow Gallery, Skwire, Sarah On my refusal to attend a poet’s protest
Brooklyn (Art), May, 48; against the war (POEM), Oct., 37
Shorter notice a review of Christopher Wilmarth by Smith, Patrick J. Opera note on the Santa Fe Opera
Steven Henry Madoff (Books), May, 89; (Music), Oct., 48;
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Opera note on Handel’s Rodelinda at the & American Abstraction at the Philadelphia
Metropolitan Opera (Music), Jan., 525 Museum of Art (Art), April, 42;
Concert note on Gounod’s Faust at the Metropolitai Not-so-great New York 2005a review of Greater
Opera (Music), June, 59; New York 2005 at PS. 1 (ART), Mav, 43;
Concert note on Angela Hewitt at Zankel Hall, N he fabric of dreams a review of Matisse, His Art &
York (Music), June, 6 His Textiles at the Royal Academy of Arts, London
Snodgrass, W. D. Packing up the lute (POEM), June, 29 ART), June, 41
Spence, Michael Umbilical (POEM), June, 27 ischuttle, Keith A disgraceful career a review of The
Spires, Elizabeth Sunday morning at tle Carmelite \nti-Chomsky Reader edited by Collier &
monastery (POEM), Feb., 34 Horowitz (BOOKs), Sept., 61;
Steele, Timothy Daybreak, Benedict Canyon (POEM), Which enlightenment? a review of The Roads to
April, 25; Modernity by Gertrude Himmelfarb (BooKs),
The swing (PoEM), April, 27; March, 64;
Ethel Taylor (PoEM), April, 28 Che journalism of warfare, June, 12
Steyn, Mark Summer in Williamstown reviews of Desis
for Living; three one-act plays by Michael John David The memory of Donald Justice, Nov., 21;
LaChiusa; Nicholas Martin’s A Midsummet \ conversation on art with Philip Pearlstein, Dec., 19;
Nights Dream (THEATER), Sept., 36; he fortunes of formalism, April, 21;
Gitmo chic revoif eGolwda’ s Balcony (THEATER rosody, of course a reply to Samuel Amadon
Oct., 43; LETTER), June, 98
Purrs of self-satisfaction revieowfs Twelve Angry Met
ce Nine Parts of Desire (THEATER), Dec.,4 Books considered
Thin on the ground a review of Fat Pig (THEATER
Feb., 38; son, Jens Hans Christian Anderson: A New Life
Shriveled visions reviews of Brooklyn Boy C Good Stefan Beck), May, 88
Vibrations (THEATER), March, 41; 7, John Where Shall I Wander (William Logan),
Consumed by trivia reviews of Romance, On the June, 66 :
Mountain ¢c After Ashley (THEATER), April, 3 1, Sybille Quicksands (David Pryce-Jones), May, 76
Extinct parodies a review of Spamalot (THEATER), Hazel K., editor No Soft Incense: Barbara Pym &
May, 38; the Church (Alexandra Mullen), Mav, 85
Vacationing in someone else’s despair a review of M , Tont Surrender (Theodore Dalrymple), Dec., 85
Name Is Rachel Corrie (THEATER), June, 36 Jewel Spears, editorT . S. Eliot: The Contem-
Stove, Judy Jane Austen, anti-Jacobin, Jan., 18 porary Reviews (Roger Kimball), Nov., 77
Stove, R. J. Composer on the couch a review of Gusta y, William F., Jr. Miles Gone By (William
Mahler by Stuart Feder (Booxs), Dec., 78 MeGurn), Sept., 58
19, Josiah 111 Ulysses S. Grant (Victor Davis Han-
Valiunas, Algis A long & happy life a review of V. S son), Nov., 68
Pritchett by Jeremy Treqlown (BooKs), May, 83 Kevin Winslow in Love (Max Watman), Mav, 61
mn, Kate The Secret Wars of Judi Bari (Stefan
Watman, Max Worse vet, real life reviews of Villages / Beck), March, 76
John Updike; The Plot Against America by Phili ¢ Horowitz, David The Anti-Chomsky
Roth; Oblivion: Stories by David Foster Wallace Reader (Keith Windschuttle), Sept., 61
Heir to the Glimmering World by Cynthia Ozit h, Stanley The Artificial White Man (Stefan Beck),
(FICTION CHRONICLE), Nov., 54; Ne wv. 7I
Ignorant armies clash by night reviews of Never Let Christie The Strange Death of Moral Britain
Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro; A Changed Man by Anthony Daniels), Dec., 71
Francine Prose; American Purgatorio by John 1, Michael Bound to Please (Stefan Beck), Dec.
Haskell; Saturday by Ian McEwan: Winslow in Rita American Smooth (William Logan), Dec., 63
Love by Kevin Canty (FICTION CHRONICLE), , Masayo The Life of Isamu Noguchi (James
May, 61 Panero), Feb., 76
Wilkin, Karen “Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet!” a revic I. §. The Annotated Waste Land (Adam Kirsch),
of the Bruyas Collection from the Musée Fabre, April, 12
Montpellier at the Sterling & Francine Clark In Walker Many Are Called (Hilton Kramer), Nov., 76
stitute (ART), Sept., 41; Stuart Gustav Mahler (R. J. Stove), Dec., 78
Among gods & kings a review ofI n the Realm of 1g, Barbara Welcome to Lizard Motel (Stefan
Gods & Kings at Asia Society (ART), Nov., 36; Beck), Sept., 69
Maillol at Marlborough a review of Aristide Maillo David Hackett Liberty & Freedom (Mare
at the Marlborough Gallery (ArT), Dec., 45; irkin), June, 81
Photography’s painter a review of The Figure & the Jonathan Safran Extremely Loud & Incredibly
Forest at Kate Ganz Gallery (ArT), Jan., 40; Close (Stefan Beck), June, 92
De Kooning declined a review of De Kooning b) la, Leoni Catherine de Medici (Brooke Allen), Feb.,71
Stevens C& Swan (BOOKS), Feb., 64; baldi, Giuseppe My Lite (James Panero), Jan., 72
Rubens at the Metropolitan a review of Peter Paul berger, Paul Up from Zero (Francis Morrone), Jan.,69
Rubens at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, rich, Richard, editor The Clay Sanskrit Library
March, 19; Eric Ormsby), May, 68
Stuart Davis in Philadelphia a review of Stuart Davis ik, Adam Americans in Paris (James Panero),Sept.,77
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Graham, Jorie Overlord (William Logan), June, 66 Paglia, Camille Break, Blow, Burn (Stefan Beck), April, 75
Grant, Robert Imagining the Real (Noel Malcolm), arker, Douglas M. Ogden Nash (Alexandra Mullen),
March, 74 June, 95
Greenblatt, Stephen Will in the World (John Simon), Penrose, Roger The Road to Reality (Martin Gardner),
April, 70 Oct., 65
Haffenden, John William Empson, Volume 1 (Paul Plilby, Rufina The Private Life of Kim Philby (David
Dean), 73 Pryce-Jones), Oct., 68
Hague, William William Pitt the Younger (Andrew Prose, Francine AChanged Man (Max Watman), May, 61
Roberts), April, 73 Reid, T: R. The United States of Europe (Gerald Frost),
Hamrick, S. J. Deceiving the Deceivers (David Pryce- Nov., 73
Jones), Oct., 68 Rhodes, Richard John James Audubon (Michael J.
Hardt, Michael & Negri, Antonio Multitude (Roger Lewis), Jan., 66
Kimball), Sept., 76 Rodger, N. A. M. Command of the Ocean (William
Harlan, Elizabeth George Sand (Tess Lewis), May, 81 Anthony Hay), Mav, 86
Haskell, John American Purgatorio (Max Watman), Rollyson, Carl Reading Biography (James Panero),
Mav, 6! March, 75
Hibbert, Christopher Disraeli (David Pryce-Jones) ,J an., 64 Roosevelt, Theodore Letters & Speeches & Rough Riders
Hillier, Bevis Young Betjeman, John Betjeman: New (Harvey Mansfield), March, 4
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