Table Of Content

Index The New Criterion Volume 26 September 2007—June 2008 Allen, Brooke British Invasion on The Sorcerer, Romeo Bowman, James Gotta get a gimmick (THE MEDIA), and Juliet, Rosebud: The Lives of Orson Welles Sept., 545 ce Rabbit (THEATER), Sept., 37; A public blogging (THE MEDIA), Oct., 60; All the world’s a stage on Opus, Xanadu, A Mid- Ken Burns’s war (THE MEDIA), Nov., 68; summer Night’s -: .2m ¢ Frost/Nixon Clooney tunes (THE MEDIA), Dec., 56; (THEATER), Oct., 39; Sense of superiority (THE MEDIA), Jan., 55; Faded virtues on Iphegenia, The Misanthrope, The A kick in the pants (THE MEDIA), Feb., 59; Dining Room, Dividing ¢& The Seagull Rock-star status (THE MEDIA), Mar., 52; (THEATER), Nov., $1; Blurring the lines (THE MEDIA), April, 58; Group aesthetic 07 Hamlet, The Receptionist & Smear tactics (THE MEDIA), May, 72; Things We Want (THEATER), Dec., 40; Getting it (THE MEDIA), June, 61 Rock around the bloc on Rock ’n’ Roll, The Boyers, Robert Pinsky’s “Gulf Music” (LETTERS), Farnsworth Invention, Pumpgirl & Speech & Feb., 79 Debate (THEATER), Jan., 38; Brock, Geoffrey One morning (POEMS), Sept., 30 Never the Twain on Is He Dead?, August: Osage Brown, Dan They’re the top on The House That Countye?The Homecoming (THEATER), Feb., 39; George Built: With a Little Help from Irving, Trial & error on Jerry Springer: The Opera, The Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty dy Wilfred Sheed Lifeblood, New Jerusalem ¢ Two Thousand (Books), Nov., 87 Years (THEATER), Mar., 36; Signs of the times o7 Conversations, The Cherry Cassity, Turner Gabriel (POEMS), June, 33 Orchard Sequel, Gray Area & Next to Normal Collier, Peter The Sixties at 40, June, 4 (THEATER), April, 38; Congdon, Timothy Bad quarter of an hour? on The Friends & neighbors on Half a Sixpence, In the Forgotten Man by Amity Shiaes (BOOKs), Heights, Almost an Evening, Parlour Song & Sept., 65 The Four of Us (THEATER), May, 48; Coyle, Bill Hindsight (Poems), April, 36 LuPone’s turn on Gypsy, Boeing-Boeing ¢ The New Century (THEATER), June, 47 Daniels, Anthony Another side of Paradise on Why Arkin, Marc Trollope & the law, Oct., 23 Kerouac Matters by John Leland, Sept., 12; The cure for Bernard Shaw, Oct., 4; Barber, David Little songs on American Sonnets edited Who shall ’scape whipping? on Punishment: The by David Bromwich (Books), Dec., 75 Supposed Justifications Revisited by Ted Hon- Bauerlein, Mark A partisan view on Full Circle by Edith derich, Nov., 36; Kurzweil (BooKs), Mar., 74 The false prophet on The Collected Works of Kahlil Beck, Stefan The art of darkness on Tree of Smoke by Gibran (RECONSIDERATIONS), Dec., 35; Denis Johnson (BOOKs), Nov., 86; Fear of regress on La stratégie des antilopes by Jean Mushmouth nation o7 The Death of the Grown-up Hatzfeld (BooKs), Feb., 64; by Diana West (Books), Dec., 73; At the forest’s edge on Ortega & Freud, Mar., 16; Ye same olde story on Ali Shall Be Well; and All The sound of silence on Manifesto for Silence by Shall Be Well; and All Manner of Things Shall Be Stuart Sim (BOoOKs), April, 63; Well by Tod Wodicka (Books), April, 71; Ionesco & the limits of philosophy (NOTEBOOR), What Wolff knows on Our Story Begins by Tobias May, 91; Wolff (BOOKs), June, 87 A tale of two countries (LETTER FROM FRANCE), Benatar, David The “wisdom” of Silenus (LETTERS), June, 34 April, 80 Davies, Christie Exhibition note on “Seduced: Art and Black, Jeremy The travails of a secular priesthood, Sex from Antiquity to Now” at the Barbican Art Jan., 25 Gallery, London (ArT), Dec., 47; The New Criterion June 2008 Index Exhibition note o7 “Walter Sickert: The Camden Hadas, Rachel The beam (POEMS), Jan., 35 Town Nudes” at the Courtauld Institute of Art Hanson, Victor Davis The old Schell game on The Gallery, London (ArT), Feb., 49 Seventh Decade by Jonathan Schell (BOOKs), Davis, Garrick Will to innocence on The Collected Oct., 67; Poems of Tennessee Williams edited by David Learning that failed, May, 21 Roessel & Nicholas Moschovakis (BOOKS), Feb., 77 Hart, Jeffrey Jacques Barzun at 100 (NOTEBOOK), Dean, Paul Not saying anything on C. Day-Lewis by Nov., 93 Peter Stanford (Books), Oct., 73; Hilbert, Ernest Pirates (POEMS), Oct., 2 Luminous details 07 Ezra Pound: Poet, Volume 1 by Hill, Geoffrey Before senility (POEMS), Dec., 31; A. David Moody (BOOKs), Jan., 77 Citations I (PoEMs), Dec., 32; Derbyshire, John The unrecorded man on Paul Scott’s Raj Coda (PoEMs), Dec., 33 Quartet, Feb., 11; Hollander, Paul Danish lessons (LETTER FROM COPEN- Man is wolf to wolfo n American Earth edited by Bill HAGEN), Oct., 313 McKibben with a foreword by Al Gore, Mat., 4 Bitter disillusionment on The Kravchenko Case: Donoghue, Denis Castle adamant on Literary Essays and One Man’s War on Stalin by Gary Kern (BOOKs), Reviews of the 1920s & 30s & Literary Essays Mar., 65 and Reviews of the 1930s & 40s by Edmund Wil- son (BOOKS), Dec., 69; Jacobs, Laura Just the way he was on George Balanchine’s Communicators 07 The Collected Works of W. B. “Symphonie Concertante” (DANCE), Sept., 31; Yeats: Volume XIII, A Vision edited by Catherine Wall of thorns on American Ballet Theatre’s Sleeping E. Paul & Margaret Mills (BooKs), May, 81 Beauty at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York Douglas-Home, Jessica A lost part of Europe (LETTER (DaNcE), Nov., 46; FROM TRANSYLVANIA), Feb., 35 Vaults & waters on the Kirov at City Center Downing, Ben Baring’s collapse on Maurice Baring: (DANCE), June 38 Letters edited by Jocelyn Hillgarth & Julian Jeffs Jarman, Mark Time machine (PoEMs), Oct., 28 (Books), April, 65 Johnson, Daniel The conservative response to Islam, Jan., 13 Epstein, Daniel Mark Who cares about Robert E. Lee?, Juster, A.M. From Horace’s “Satires” (POEMS), Nov., 41; Sept., 22 From Book II, Satire VI (PoEMs), Nov., 42 Epstein, Joseph “The literary life” at 25, Sept., 4 A literary education, June, 10 Kekes, John Assault on a fine ideal, Feb., 25 Esplund, Lance Revisionism at the Met, Mar., 9 Kenney, Richard New (POEMS), Jan., 37 Kimball, Roger “Openness” & “The Closing of the Finane, Ben Concert note on Alfred Brendel at Carnegie American Mind? Nov., 1; Hall (Music), May, 71 Introduction: saving remnants, Jan., 4; Rudyard Kipling unburdened, April, 22; Gardner, Martin Sir Isaac’s ocean on Newton by Peter What was a liberal education? May, 4 Ackroyd (BooKs), April, 75 Kirsch, Adam The consolations (POEMS), Mar., 27; Garner, Richard Virgil up to speed on The Aeneid Heaney in love, April, 9 translated by Sarah Ruden (BOOKS), May, 85 Klingenstein, Susanne Brains & brawn on Jews & Pewer Gibson, Eric Moore & Giacometti, Dec., 19 by Ruth R. Wisse (BOOKS), Sept., 73 Gorgani, Fakhraddin The conclusion of Vis’s letter Kors, Alan Charles The sadness of higher ed., May, 9 to Ramin translated by Dick Davis (POEMS), Feb., 33 Leaf, Jonathan Of mice & melodrama (NOTEBOOK), Grassi, Marco Exhibition note on Fakes and Forgeries: Dec., 84; The Art of Deception at the Bruce Museum, Shorter notice 07 George Washington on Leader- Greenwich, Connecticut (ART), Oct., 49; ship by Richard Brookhiser (BOOKS), June, 89 Dutch treat 02 The Age of Rembrant: Dutch Paint- Leduc, Joe Exhibition note on “Consuming Passion: ing in the Metropolitan Museum of Art at the Fragonard’s Allegories of Love” at the Clark Art Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (ART), Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts (ART), Nov., 56; Dec., 48 The great collectors, Dec., 10; Lewis, Michael J. The ley of the land on Landscape Apres Salander (LETTERS), Dec., 88; Painting: A History by Nils Biittner (BOOKs), Filippo in Florence on Filippo Napoletano alla Sept., 67; Corte di Cosimo II de’ Medici at the Galleria The rise of the “starchitect.” Dec., 4; Palatina in the Palazzo Pitti, Florence (ART), American pastoral on George Inness: A Catalogue May, 58 Raisonné by Michael Quick (BooKs), April, 68 Greenberg, Martin Daniel Fuchs: “A man must make Lewis, Tess Pulled punches on Inner Workings: Literary money” (RECONSIDERATIONS), Oct., 34 Essays 2000-2005 by J. M. Coetzee (BOOKS), Greger, Debora Eve in the fall (PoEMs), April, 35 Dec., 78; Gross, John Modernism then & now on Modernism by Evil’s supreme logic on Detective Story by Imre Peter Gay, Nov., 303 Kertész (BOOKS), May, 88 With all due respect ov Great Victorian Lives edited Logan, William The world is too much with us on The by Ian Brunskill (Books), May, 76 Biplane Houses by Les Murray, Gulf Music by Gross, Paul Design for living on The Edge of Evolution Robert Pinsky, Expectation Days by Sandra by Michael J. Behe (Booxs), Oct., 70 McPherson, Litilefoot by Charles Wright, Water- The New Criterion June 2008 light: Selected Poems by Kathleen Jamie & Time Chorus at Lincoln Center & the St. Petersburg and Materials by Robert Hass (VERSE Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall (Music), Dec., 51; CHRONICLE), Dec., 61; New York chronicle on The Barber of Seville at the Pinsky’s “Gulf Music”: A response (LETTERS), Met, John Dexter’s Don Carlo at the Met, The Feb., 80; Miro Quartet at Alice Tully Hall & the Salzburg A forgotten poet on John Townsend Trowbridge, Festival performing an American rollout of its 2007 April, 14; program at the Morgan Library (Music), Jan., 593 The old story (POEMS), May, 43; New York chronicle on Un ballo in maschera at the Valentine’s Day massacre on Valentines by Ted Kooser, Metropolitan Opera and Ross Lee Finney’s Cham- Fifty-Two by Melissa Green, The Wave-Maker by ber Music at the Bruno Walter Auditorium Elizabeth Spires, Seven Notebooks by Campbell (Music), Feb., 54; McGrath, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time by On recordings on Maurizio Pollint’s Beethoven Marie Howe &% Sea Change by Jorie Graham Sonatas Op. 2, Janine Jansen’s Bach: Inventions & (VERSE CHRONICLE), June, 66 Partitas & Matt Heimovitz’s After Reading Shakespeare (Music), Mar., 47; Mac Donald, Heather Another view: America’s flaw or New York chronicle on Otello at the Metropolitan Bloom’s? on Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the Opera, the Kronos Quartet in Zankel Hall at Car- American Mind, Nov., 24 negie Hall & the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at Mahoney, Daniel J. The great & the good on The Carnegie Hall (Music), April, 52; Case for Greatness by Robert Faulkner (BOOKS), New York chronicle on The San Francisco Symphony June, 79 at Carnegie Hall, two cello sonatas by Michael Martin, Charles Some kind of happiness (POEMS), Hersch, the Berlin Philharmonic at the Salzburg May, 46 Easter Festival, Dmitri Hvorostovsky at Carnegie Maxwell, Glyn Country birthday (PoEMs), June, 30; Hall, Julian Bliss at the Walter Reade Theater & All things bright (PoEMs), June, 31; David Shifrin with the Emerson String Quartet at It too remains (POEMS), June, 32 the Rose Theater (Music), May, 66; McCarthy, Andrew C. The end of discretion, Jan., 19 New York chronicle on the highlights oft he season McQuade, Molly The other osprey (POEMS), May, 47 (Music), June, 56 Meyers, Jeffrey Monstrous passions on Travels with Nores & COMMENTS Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski (BOOKS), A putsch at Dartmouth? Sept. 1; Nov., 84 The swindle of “peace studies,” Sept. 2; Minogue, Kenneth Conservatism & the morality of im- Sensitivity’s slippery slope, Sept. 3; pulse, Jan., 8 Dartmouth & the Brezhnev doctrine, Oct., 1; Morson, Gary Saul Thugland on Motherland by Lesley At last! The Hamilton Institute, Oct., 3; Chamberlain (Boos), Feb., 71 Will there always be an England? Nov., 1; Mullarkey, Maureen Exhibition note on The Gates of Lapham’s latest folly on the inaugural issue of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Renaissance Mas- Lapham’s Quarterly, Dec., 1; terpiece at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Multiculturalism, a reality check, Dec., 2; York (ART), Dec., 49 Academic consciousness raising on “diversity aware- Mullen, Alexandra Land of Cockayne on Hubbub: ness” at the University of Delaware, Dec., 3; Filth, Noise & Stench in England, 1600-1770 by The New Criterion on art, Dec.3; Emily Cockayne (BOOKS), Sept., 703 The “wisdom” of Silenus, Jan., 1; Eminent essayists 07 The Spirit of the Age: Vic- England, an epitaph on Great Britain’s accession to the torian Essays edited by Gertrude Himmelfarb Treaty ofL isbon, Jan., 2; (Books), April, 75; Uncertainty at the Met on the retirement ofP hilippe Sleuthing Conan Doyle, June, 25 de Montebello, Feb., 1; Murray, Charles The age of educational romanticism, Howard Zinn’s fairy tale, Feb., 2; May, 35 Frost’s “Notebooks,” Feb., 3; “Constructive accommodation”? on Rowan Williams Nazaryan, Alexander Birth ofa despot on Young Stalin and Sharia bonds, Mar., 1; by Simon Sebag Montefiore (BOoKs), Oct., 77; Euphemism alert on the use of the word “youths” by Child of Zeus on Alexandr the Great Failure by John Reuters, Mar., 2; D. Grainger (BOOKS), Feb., 75; William F. Buckley Jr., 1925-2008, April, 1; Disappointment artists on Poems of the Late Tang Spitzer: born-again Leninist, April, 2; translated by A. C. Graham (Books), April, 73 David Mamet grows up, April, 3; Nordlinger, Jay Supervirtuoso on Beverly Sills (Music), The New Criterion on poetry, April, 3; Sept., 49; Arts & ethics at Yale, May, 1; Salzburg chronicle (Music), Oct., 55; Libel tourism, May, 3; New York chronicle on Margaret Garner at City Speaking up for the Fifties, June, 1; Opera, an “Hommage a Cziffra” at Yamaha Artis- A note of thanks, June, 2 tic Services & Turandot at the Atlanta Opera (Music), Nov., 63; O’Sullivan, John The conservatism of the future, Jan., 28; New York chronicle on the Lorin Maazel’s Tchaikovsky State worship on Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg festival, the Cleveland Orchestra at Carnegie Hail, (Books), Feb., 69 the pianist Ivan Moravec at the Metropolitan Oh, Jennifer Being Hamsun on Growth of the Soil by Museum ofA rt, the London Symphony Orchestra & Knut Hamsun (BooKs), Oct., 79; The New Criterion June 2008 Shorter notice ov Cries in the Drizzle by Yu Hua Liberalism vs. humanism on Education’s End by (Books), April, 79 Anthony T: Kronman, May, 28; Ormsby, Eric A mind empatadised on Paradiso by Dante Up from liberalism on Upstream: The Ascendance Alighieri, translated by Robert & Jean Hollander of American Conservatism by Alfred S. Regnery (Books), Nov., 73; (Books), June, 8&3 Flashes ofl ightning 0” War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Pryce-Jones, David Gaulling on Testimony: France in the translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky Twenty-first Century by Nicolas Sarkozy (BOOKS), (BOOKs), Jan., 68; Sept., 63; The kingdom of Never-to-be on Walter de la Mare, Enough Said on Defending the West: A Critique of April, 4 Edward Said’s Orientalism by Ibn Warraq (Books), Jan., 60 Panero, James Making sense of Robert Storr, Sept., 18; Gallery chronicle on Masterpieces of Art: Five Cen- Roberts, Andrew Up in smoke on Human Smoke by turies of Painting and Sculpture at Salander- Nicholson Baker (BOOKS), June, 74 OReilly Galleries, New York, Michael Goldberg: Rollyson, Carl The absence of Amy Lowell New Paintings at Knoedler ¢ Company, New York (NOTEBOOK), Sept., 77 ¢ Duncan Hannah: Wanderlust at James Rosser, J. Allyn Unrainy day (POEMS), Sept. 28; Graham ¢& Sons, New York (ArT), Oct., 52; The lie (POEMS), Sept., 29 Gallery chronicle on the closing of Salander-O’Reilly, Russello, Gerald Primal obligations on David R. Slavitt’s Thornton Willis, Paintings: 40 Years at Sideshow translation of The Theban plays of Sophocles Gallery & William Bailey ca Canvas at Betty (Books), Dec., 81 Cuningham Gallery (ART), Nov., 60; Radical un-chic on Tom Wolfe & the derriére garde, Sandall, Roger Shed no tears on Professor Charles Taylor Dec., 27; and the Crow Indians of the Yellowstone River Valley Gallery chronicle on Calder/Melotti: Lyrical Con- (NOTEBOOR), Mar., 78; structions at Barbara Mathes Gallery, Drawing in Sanders, David The fossil-finder (POEMS), May, 45 Space at Richard L. Feigen & Co., Joel Shapiro: Schwendener, Peter More mass than drive on Lost New Sculpture at Pace Wildenstein, Mel Kendrick: Genius by Kevin Bazzana (BOoKs), Mar., 72 Red Blocks at David Nolan Gallery, Willem de Scruton, Roger Between art & science on modernist ar- Kooning, Drawings: 1920s-1970s at Allan Stone chitecture, Feb., 4 Gallery & Jules Olitski: The Late Paintings, A Simmons, Tracy Lee Making the case on Carpe Diem by Celebration at Knoedler & Company (ART), Harry Mount (BooxKs), Nov., 82 Dec., 45; Simon, John Ofv erts (POEMS), Oct., 30; Gallery chronicle on Christopher Wilmarth at Betty Play on on The Rest Is Noise by Alex Ross (BOOKS), Cuningham Gallery, New York (ART), Jan., 473 Jan., 72; Gallery chronicle on Richard Pousette-Dart: Mallarmé’s wanderings on Barbara Johnson’s transla- Drawing, Form Is Verb at Knoedler ¢ Company, tion ofD ivagations by Stephane Mallarmé New York, Group Exhibition: Abstractions at (RECONSIDERATIONS), Mar., 30 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, Barry Le Va: Siskel, Callie Shorter notice on The Theatre ofI llusion Voltage at David Nolan Gallery, New York & El by Pierre Corneille, translated by Richard Wilbur Anatsui: Zebra Crossing at Jack Shainman Gal- (Books), Nov., 92 lery, New York (Arq), Feb., 51; Solomita, Alec Yossarian section on Joseph Heller’s Gallery chronicle on The 2008 Biennial Exhibition Catch-22 edited by Harold Bloom (BOOKs), at the Whitney Museum, New York, Moon Birds at Mar., 62 Knoedler & Company, New York & Seven Deadly Spence, Michael The “Darter” & the “Dace, the way I Sins & Recent Works by Jamie Wyeth at Adelson wish he’d told it (PoEMs), April, 32 Galleries, New York (ArT), April, 49; Spires, Elizabeth The snowy day (POEML), Jan., 36 Gallery chronicle on John Dubrow: Paintings at Lori Steyn, Mark What’s in a name? on World War Iv: The Bookstein Fine Art, New York, Wayne Thiebaud: Long Struggle Against Islamofascism by Norman The Figure at Allan Stone Gallery, New York, Podhoretz (BOOKS), Sept., 59; Gregory Crewdson at Luhring Augustine, New Twenty years ago today on rock music’s oppressive rule York & Lois Dodd: Landscapes and Structures, a over society, Nov., 18; Survey Exhibition at Alexandre Gallery, New York Mah-velous, dah-ling on The Letters of Noél (ART), May, 62; Coward edited by James Sexton (BOOKS), Jan., 64 Galley chronicle on Catherine Murphy: New Work Stove, R. J. 1am folk music on Elgar: An Extraordinary at Knoedler & Company, New York, Walton Ford Life by J. P E. Harper-Scott & Elgar: An Anniver- at Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York & Jacob Col- sary Portrait edited by Nicholas Kenyon (BOOKS), lins—Rediscovering the American Landscape: Nov., 89; The Eastholm Project at Hirschl ¢ Adler, New Off with the motley on Leoncavallo: Life & Works York (ArT), June, 53 by Konrad Dryden (Books), June, 85 Paquette, Robert L. The lost world: a parable on the Strauss, Barry Carved in stone on Monuments by Judith academy, May, 5 Dupré (Booxs), Mar., 69 Penrose, James Mozart’s Linnaeus on Ludwig von Kochel, Stuttaford, Andrew Campbell’s soup on The Blair Years compiler of the Kochelverzeichnis, Oct., 16 by Alistair Campbell (Booxs), Oct., 65; Piereson, James “The Closing of the American Mind” at Fixin’ Nixon on Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full dy 20 on Allan Bloom the teacher, Nov., 4; Conrad Black (Booxs), Mar., 57 The New Criterion June 2008 Tartakovsky, Joseph A life of allegory on Shakespeare: Books considered The World as Stage by Bill Bryson (BOOKs), Mar., 67 Ackroyd, Peter Newton (Martin Gardner), Apt., 75 Thermansen, Ellie Shorter notice on The Essential Baker, Nicholson Human Smoke: The Beginnings of Feminist Reader edited by Estelle B. Freedman World War II (Andrew Roberts), June, 74 (Books), Nov., 91; Bazzana, Kevin Lost Genius: The Curious and Tragic Brave new Huxley on Selected Letters by Aldous Story of an Extraordinary Musical Prodigy (Peter Huxley (BOOKs), Mar., 75 Schwendener), Mar., 72 Tillinghast, Richard Exhibition note on Millais at Tate Behe, Michael J. The Edge of Evolution: The Search for Britain, London (ArT), Feb., 48; the Limits of Darwinism (Paul R. Gross), Durable cloth on Selected Poems by Louis MacNeice Oct., 70 (Books), Mar., 60 Black, Conrad Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full Tully, Nola Exhibition note on Colour Before Color at (Andrew Stuttaford), Mar., 57 Hasted Hunt Gallery, New York (Art), Bloom, Harold, ed. Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 (Alec Sept., 46; Solomita), Mar., 62 Exhibition note ov Depth of Field: Modern Bromwich, David, ed. American Sonnets: An Anthology Photography at the Metropolitan at the (David Barber), Dec., 75 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (ART), Brown Pryor, Elizabeth Reading the Man: A Portrait of Nov., 59 Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters (Daniel Mark Epstein), Sept., 22 Warren, Deborah 360 degrees (POEMS), Feb., 32 Brunskill, Ian, ed. Great Victorian Lives (John Gross), Weiss, Michael The sensation of liberty on the historian May, 76 Tibor Szamuely, Oct., 10; Bryson, Bill Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Joseph Inhuman power of the lie: “The Great Terror” at Tartakovsky), Mar., 67 40, Feb., 17 Biittner, Nils Landscape Painting: A History (Michael J. Wilkin, Karen News from the Berkshires 07 The Un- Lewis), Sept., 67 known Monet: Pastels and Drawings at the Clark Campbell, Alistair The Blair Years: Extracts from the Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts Alistair Campbell Diaries (Andrew Stuttaford), (ART), Sept., 42; Oct., 65 Notes on color field painting on post-painterly Chamberlain, Lesley Motherland: A Philosophical His- abstraction (ART), Oct., 44; tory of Russia (Gary Saul Morson), Feb., 71 Partisan & passionate on A Life of Picasso, Volume Chiarini, Marco Teodoro Filippo di Liagno detto 1: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 by John Filippo Napoletano (1589-1629) (Marco Grassi), Richardson (Books), Nov., 78; May, 61 Seurat in black & white on Georges Seurat: The Cockayne, Emily Hubbub: Filth, Noise & Stench in : Drawings at the Museum of Modern Art, New York England 1600-1770 (Alexandra Mullen), Sept.,76 (Art), Dec., 153 Coetzee, J. M. Inner Workings (Tess Lewis), Dec., 79 Martin Puryear at MOMA (ART), Jan., 43; Conquest, Robert The Great Terror: A Reassessment Camille Pissarro at the Jewish Museum (Arr), (Michael Weiss), Feb., 18 Feb., 44; Corneille, Pierre The Theater ofI llusion translated Late Titian in Vienna (ArT), Mar., 41; with an introduction by Richard Wilbur (Callie Sis- Arcadia at the Metropolitan ov Poussin and Nature: kel), Nov., 92 Arcadian Visions at the Metropolitan Museum of Davis, Garrick Praising It New: The Best of the New Art, New York (Art), April, 43; Criticism (David Yezzt), Apr., 28 Courbet at the Met (ArT), May, 52; Dryden, Konrad Leoncavallo: Life & Works (R. J. Greenberg & Rosenberg on Action/Abstraction: Stove), June, 85 Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, Dupré, Judith Monuments: America’s History in Art 1940-1976 at the Jewish Museum, New York (Art), and Memory (Barry Strauss), Mar., 69 June, 47 Faulkner, Robert The Case for Greatness: Honorable Windschuttle, Keith William Wilberforce: the great Ambition & Its Critics (Daniel J. Mahoney), emancipator on William Wilberforce: The Life of June, 79 the Great Anti-Slave Trade Campaigner by Wil- Freedman, Estelle B. The Essential Feminist Reader liam Hague, June 17 (Ellie Thermansen), Nov., 91 Frum, David Comeback: Conservatism that Can Win Yezzi, David Exhibition note on Neo Rauch at the Met: Again (Roger Kimball), Jan., 6 para at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Fuchs, Daniel The Brooklyn Novels (Martin (ART), Sept., 47; Greenberg), Oct., 34 Exhibition note on Edward Hopper at the National The Golden West: Hollywood Stories (Martin Gallery ofA rt, Washington, D.C. (ART), Greenberg), Oct., 34 Oct., 50; Gay, Peter Modernism: The Lure of Heresy (John Seeing Turner whole on J. M. W. Turner at the Na- Gross), Nov., 30 tional Gallery ofA rt, Dec., 23; Gibran, Kahlil The Collected Works of Kahlil Gibran Geoffrey Hill’s civil tongue on Geoffrey Hill’s A (Anthony Daniels), Dec., 35 Treatise of Civil Power, Mar., 22; Goldberg, Jonah Liberal Fascism (John O'Sullivan), Feb.,69 Grammars of a possible world on the New Critics, Graham, A.C. Poems of the Late Tang (Alexander then & now, April, 27 Nazaryan), Apr., 73 The New Criterion June 2008 Grainger, John D. Alexander the Great Failure Podhoretz, Norman World War Iv: The Long Struggle (Alexander Nazaryan), Feb., 75 Against Islamofascism (Mark Steyn), Sept., 59 Hamilton, James Turner (David Yezzi), Dec., 23 Quick, Michael George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonné Hamsun, Knut Growth of the Soil (Jennifer Oh), Oct., 79 (Michael J. Lewis), Apr., 68 Harper-Scott, J. P. E. Elgar: An Extraordinary Life (R. J. Regnery, Alfred S. Upstream: The Ascendance of Amer- Stove), Nov., 89 ican Conservatism (James Piereson), June, 83 Hass, Robert Time and Materials (William Logan), Richardson, John A Life of Picasso, Volume III: The Dec., 67 Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 (Karen Wilkin), Hatzfeld, Jean La stratégie des antilopes (Anthony Nov., 78 Daniels), Feb., 64 Roessel, David & Nicholas Moschovakis, eds. The Col- Hill, Geoffrey A Treatise of Civil Power (David Yezz1), lected Poems of Tennessee Williams (Garrick Mar., 22 Davis), Feb., 77 Hillgarth, Jocelyn & Julian Jeffs, eds. Maurice Baring: Ross, Alex The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twen- Letters (Ben Downing), Apr., 65 tieth Century (John Simon), Jan., 72 Himmelfarb, Gertrude, ed. The Spirit of the Age: Vic- Ruden, Sarah, trans. The Aeneid (Richard Garner), torian Essays (Alexandra Mullen), Apt., 77 May, 85 Hollander, Robert and Jean, trans. Paradiso by Dante Salingaros, Nikos A Theory of Architecture (Roger Alighieri (Eric Ormsby), Nov., 73 Scruton), Feb., 8 Honderich, Ted Punishment: The Supposed Justifica- Sarkozy, Nicolas Testimony: France in the Twenty-first tions Revisited (Anthony Daniels), Nov., 36 Century (David Pryce-Jones), Sept., 63 Hua, Yu Cries in the Drizzle, translated by Allan H. Schell, Jonathan The Seventh Decade: The New Shape Barr (Jennifer Oh), Apr., 79 of Nuclear Danger (Victor Davis Hanson), Oct., 67 Jaime, Kathleen Waterlight: Selected Poems (William Scott, Paul The Raj Quartet, Volume I: The Jewel in the Logan), Dec., 66 Crown, The Day of the Scorpion (John Der- Johnson, Denis Tree of Smoke (Stefan Beck), Nov., 86 byshire), Feb., 115 Kapuscinski, Ryszard Travels with Herodotus (Jeffrey The Raj Quartet, Volume II: The Towers of Silence, A Meyers), Nov., 84 Division of the Spoils (John Derbyshire), Feb., 11 Kenyon, Nicholas, ed. Elgar: An Anniversary Portrait Sexton, James, ed. The Letters of Noél Coward (Mark (R. J. Stove), Nov., 89 Steyn), Jan., 64; Kern, Gary The Kravchenko Case: One Man’s War on The Selected Letters of Aldous Huxley (Ellie Ther- Stalin (Paul Hollander), Mar., 65 mansen), Mar., 75 Kertész, Imre Detective Story (Tess Lewis), May, 88 Sheed, Wilfred The House that George Built: With a Kipling, Rudyard, selected by Peter Washington Kipling: Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of Poems (Roger Kimball), Apr., 2 About Fifty (Dan Brown), Nov., 87 Kronman, Anthony T. Education’s End: Why Our Col- Shlaes, Amity The Forgotten Man: A New History of leges and Universities Have Given Up on the the Great Depression (Timothy Congdon), Sept., 65 Meaning of Life (James Piereson), May, 30 Silber, John Architecture of the Absurd: How “Genius” Kurzweil, Edith Full Circle: A Memoir (Mark Disfigured a Practical Art (Roger Scruton), Feb., 6 Bauerlein), Mar., 74 Sim, Stuart Manifesto for Silence: Confrenting the Leland, John Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of On Politics and Culture of Noise (Anthony Daniels), the Road (They're Not What You Think) (An- Apr., 63 thony Daniels), Sept., 12 Slavitt, David R., trans. The Theban Plzys of Sophocles MacNeice, Louis Selected Poems, Michael Longley, ed. (Gerald J. Russello), Dec., 81 (Richard Tillinghast), Mar., 60 Stanford, Peter C. Day-Lewis: A Life (Paul Dean), Oct., 73 Mallarmé, Stéphane Divagations (John Simon), Mar., 30 Tolstoy, Leo War and Peace, translated by Richard Pevear McKibben, Bill American Earth: Environmental Writ- ce Larissa Volokhonsky (Eric Ormsby), Jan., 68 ing Since Thoreau (John Derbyshire), Mar., 4 Warragq, Ibn Defending the West: A Critique of Ed- McPherson, Sandra Expectation Days (William Logan), ward Said’s “Orientalism” (David Pryce-Jones), Dec., 64 jan., 60 Montefiore, Simon Sebag Young Stalin (Alexander West, Diana The Death of the Grown-up (Stefan Beck), Nazaryan), Oct., 77 Dec., 73 Moody, A. David Ezra Pound: Poet, Volume I: The Wilson, Edmund Literary Essays and Reviews of the Young Genius 1885-1920 (Paul Dean), Jan., 77 19208 & 30s (Denis Donoghue), Dec., 69 Mount, Harry Carpe Diem: How to Become a Latin Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & 40s Lover (Tracy Lee Simmons), Nov., 82 (Denis Donoghue), Dec., 69 Murray, Les The Biplane Houses (William Logan), Wisse, Ruth R. Jews & Power (Susanne Klingenstein), Dec., 61 Sept., 73 Paul, Catherine E. & Margaret Mills, eds. The Collected Wodicka, Tod All Shall Be Well; and All Shall Be Well; Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume XIII, A Vision: and All Manner of Things Shall Be Well (Stefan The Original 1925 Version (Denis Donoghue), Beck), Apr., 71 May, 81 Wolff, Tobias Our Story Begins (Stefan Beck), June, 87 Pinsky, Robert Gulf Music (William Logan), Dec., 62 Wright, Charles Littlefoot (William Logan), Dec., 65 The New Criterion June 2008