On The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel: John Williams, Stoner, and the Writing Life, by Charles J. Shields. Williams, a long-time professor at the University of Denver, published Stoner in 1965, and ...
The other program, the subject of this review, appealed to more advanced balletomanes—works by Gianna Reisen, Ulysses Dove, ...
The Editors of The New Criterion are pleased to announce that Midge Goldberg is the winner of the twenty-sixth New Criterion ...
Blanche Lazzell (1878–1956), whose works are the subject of an exhibition at the Albany Institute of History & Art, was a great American improbability. (The exhibition closes August 2, so hasten to ...
Whatever happened to the Regency gentleman—or rake—who whiled away his days drinking, flirting, and generally getting up to no good? Perhaps his spirit died with Simon Raven (1927–2001), one of the ...
On Francisco de Zurbarán, Richard Strauss, urban photography, Madison Square Park & more from the world of culture.
The New Criterion, edited by Roger Kimball, was founded in 1982 by the art critic Hilton Kramer and the pianist and music critic Samuel Lipman. A monthly review of the arts and intellectual life, The ...
Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at The New Criterion’s gala on April 22, 2026, honoring Harvey Mansfield with the thirteenth Edmund Burke Award for Service to ...
In Book IV of Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus’s young son, Telémakhos, visits the court of his father’s erstwhile comrade-in-arms at Troy, Menelaos, the king of Sparta, in an attempt to glean information ...
On the reissue of Aron’s Opium of the Intellectuals. Santayana’s alarming thought that “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” has at least as much relevance to the world of ...