New Criterion back issues from January 2005:
Notes & comments: January 2005.
Jan 01, 2005 ... The Barnes Foundation, RIP It is last-act time for the Barnes Foundation, the art school that the pharmaceutical magnate Albert C. Barnes founded in the 1920s in Merion, Pennsylvania, a plush suburb of Philadelphia. Last month, Judge Stanley Ott approved a request by the ...
Gallimaufry & more: "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.".
Jan 01, 2005; ... Of the many things I admire about the Victorians--their moral passion, their elevated patriotism, their extraordinary cultural and political and scientific achievements--perhaps what I admire most is their energy. We all know about Anthony Trollope, who (as he tells us in his ...
Butler's unhappy youth.(Samuel Butler)
Jan 01, 2005; ... A Russian friend of mine, who escaped the Soviet Union for America and who now lives in England, once told me that in his early years in the West he would always introduce himself at parties by saying, "Hello, I'm Alex, I hate my parents, don't you?" Slightly taken aback, his ...
Jane Austen, anti-Jacobin.(Women novelists)
Jan 01, 2005; ... In a well-known essay first published in 1948 ("Manners, Morals, and The Novel"), Lionel Trilling wrote memorably of "the buzz of implication" which belongs to each time and each culture, and which it is very difficult for those of later times and other cultures to perceive. "The buzz of ...
Morisot & Manet.(Berthe Morisot and Edouard Manet, painters)
Jan 01, 2005; ... Berthe Morisot's letters to her sister Edma and Edouard Manet's many portraits of Berthe strongly suggest that they were lovers. Manet admired Morisot's work, relished her talk, and fell in love with her. Often alone together in his studio, they had ample time for intimacy. They burned ...
Overpass.(New poems)(Poem)
Jan 01, 2005; ... <Pre> Overpass Beyond the clouds' crumpled page, a winter watermarkof sun. The houses lean on the wind, another transient body of wind within weather, an unboundspill of smoke, soot to smudge these hills. A clutter gates the raw fence of wood, woods where trees ...
Landscape.(New poems)(Poem)
Jan 01, 2005; ... <Pre> Landscape Trepanned: in other words, my mind wandersno further than the map I drew from memory, marking the stone-circled embers memory makes smoke--wisps to occlude whatever arrow-line I'd draw next. Next is the legend: asterisk for tree, circle for ...
Animi cruciatus.(New poems)(Poem)
Jan 01, 2005; ... <Pre> Animi cruciatus (Affliction of spirit) Imagine the bullet cracking her skull,entering the frontal lobe, the bloodunder her face like a halo, the floodof her final breath, inhaled and exhaled, fullof peppermint and smoke, or her headpressing down on ...
Conrad's Latin America.(Reconsiderations)(Joseph Conrad's Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard)
Jan 01, 2005; ... Last year marked the hundredth anniversary of the publication of Joseph Conrad's Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard. Although not among his best-known works, it is in many ways his most remarkable. Indeed, it could be said to be the most significant, the most fully fleshed-out of his three ...
Photography's painter.(Art)
Jan 01, 2005; ... These days, the boundaries between forms of visual art are permeable. Artists produce work that resists being relegated to strict categories, cheerfully combining paint, photo-based imagery, computer manipulations, three-dimensional construction, found objects, video projections, and a ...
Gallery chronicle.(Art)
Jan 01, 2005; ... Several years ago, at a panel of art academics, I witnessed an eye-opening event. Behind an array of dons were projected the images of taro Picasso paintings--one, an abstract arrangement of colored shapes, the other, a figure. After a surfeit of deliberations on the circumstances of ...
Opera note.(Music)(Rodelinda (1725))(Author Abstract)
Jan 01, 2005; ... Handel's Rodelinda at the Metropolitan Opera, New York. Handel's Rodelinda (1725) has always been one of his most famous operas, with much magnificent music. When it was performed in Gottingen in 1920, it marked the beginning of the Handel opera revival. The opera centers on the ...
Honor enduring.(The media)
Jan 01, 2005; ... "The last quarter of the twentieth century saw a very big shift," said David Blunkett, the British Home Secretary, in September 2003, "where rights were predominant but duties were secondary. There has to be a balance restored to the two." The remark, by the cabinet minister responsible ...
Tom Wolfe's school days.(Books)
Jan 01, 2005; ... Tom Wolfe is widely acknowledged to be one of the great journalists of his era, but his reputation as a novelist has never been as firm. He took a famous drubbing from his contemporaries John Updike, Norman Mailer, and John Irving, "serious" novelists all, who claimed that Wolfe's Bonfire ...
Dizzy's dominion.(Disraeli: A Personal History)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2005; ... Christopher Hibbert Disraeli: A Personal History. HarperCollins, 401 pages, 25 [pounds sterling] Britain during the nineteenth century was virtually free from the revolutionary turmoils that so weakened political and economic progress in continental Europe. Several factors ...
Rara avis.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2005; ... Richard Rhodes John James Audubon: The Malting of an American. Knopf, 516 pages, $30 reviewed by Michael J. Lewis The threads of John James Audubon's achievement--scientific, commercial, and artistic--are coiled so tightly that they can scarcely be separated. Nor ...
Starting from zero.(book)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2005; ... Paul Goldberger Up from Zero: Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of Ground Zero. Random House, 273 pages, $24.95 reviewed by Francis Morrone No sooner had the World Trade Center been destroyed than people--politicians, the press, architects, concerned ...
Giuseppe Garibaldi: My Life.(Shorter notices)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2005; ... Giuseppe Garibaldi: My Life. Hesperus Press, 173 pages, $15.95 Hesperus Classics has shed a welcome light over the book world. Inaugurated in 2002 and distributed by Trafalgar Square Books in the United States, this London-based publisher has already produced dozens of elegantly ...
John J. Miller & Mark Molesky: Our Oldest Enemy: the History of America's Disastrous Relationship with France.(Shorter notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2005; ... John J. Miller & Mark Molesky Our Oldest Enemy: The History of America's Disastrous Relationship with France. Doubleday, 261 pages, $24.95 Recall that the "rush" to war with Iraq was attended in the U.S. by an efflorescence of Francophobic fever. Our streets ran red with ...
The last great fair.(Notebook)
Jan 01, 2005; ... In the Spring of 1939, standing on the roof of our apartment house at night and gazing due cast, you could see in the distance the glow of the New York World's Fair. Sometimes you saw the colors change, from blue to green to rose and sometimes there were sky-rockets and star-bursts. You ...
The uses of lexica.(Letter to the Editor)
Jan 01, 2005; ... To the Editors: I am grateful for Roger Kimball's attention to nay book, but I write to correct the misleading account he gives of nay testimony in the Colorado trial of Evans v. Romer. He is not the first to circulate this inaccurate report. My argument about the disputed Plato ...
Deceiving the deceivers.(Letter to the Editor)
Jan 01, 2005; ... To the Editors: David Pryce-Jones makes several major errors in his brief references to my book, Deceiving the Deceivers: Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, and Guyf Burgess. He claims that in my account the British intelligence services "deliberately and ingeniously" sent Maclean to ...