8.14.2003
September 2003 preview
[Posted 1:55 PM by James Panero]
Here is a peek at the September New Criterion, on newsstands in two weeks or so. (If you care to get a jump start and read The New Criterion before then, click the button above.)
Notes & Comments, 1
Lengthened shadows, I: The burdens of empire
by Keith Windschuttle, 4
Rereading John Buchan, by Roger Kimball, 16
Is Max Beckmann likeable? by Karen Wilkin, 24
Remembering the Schulmeister, by Eric Ormsby, 30
A new poem, by Leslie Norris, 37
Theater: Henry in Baghdad, by Mark Steyn, 40;
Art: The Whitney’s effect, by James Panero, 45;
Music: Great conductors (cont.), by Jay Nordlinger, 48;
The media: Scandalous scandal-culture, by James Bowman, 53
Books: Geoffrey Wolff–The art of burning bridges:
a life of John O’Hara, reviewed by James Wolcott, 58;
Adam Bellow–In praise of nepotism,
reviewed by Anthony Daniels, 65;
Martin Gardner–Are universes thicker than blackberries?
reviewed by James Franklin, 68;
F. H. Buckley–The morality of laughter
reviewed by Digby Anderson, 70;
Diane Ravitch–The language police
reviewed by Mark Bauerlein, 72;
Paul J. Rodmell–Charles Villiers Stanford,
reviewed by R. J. Stove, 75;
Notebook: Priez pour lui by Theodore Dalrymple, 77