The New Criterion is published by The Foundation for Cultural Review, a 501(c)(3) non-profit.

The New Criterion is published by The Foundation for Cultural Review, a 501(c)(3) non-profit.

4 days ago · On Master Drawings New York, Hokusai, Beethoven’s quartets, a Long Island sarcophagus & more from the world of culture.

W he n Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation appeared in 1973, its impact, the author recalled, was immediate: “Like matter enveloped by antimatter, it exploded instantaneously!” The first translations into Western languages in 1974—just fifty years ago—proved almost as sensational. No …

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 New Criterion began as an experiment in critical audacity—a publication devoted to engaging, in Matthew Arnold’s famous phrase, with “the best that has been thought and said.”

F re derick Seidel’s poems have been cranky, preposterous, but almost never stale, flat, or unprofitable. He enjoys that rare ability to surprise you with lines immediately memorable, yet unlike anyone else’s: Days of snow padded the sparking silence—still 1955—

T he Trumpian agenda to “Make America Great Again” emerged during the 2015–16 campaign and ensured Donald Trump’s nomination and his eventual victory over Hillary Clinton. This counterrevolutionary movement reflected the public’s displeasure with both the Obama administration’s hard swing to the left and the doctrinaire, anemic Republican reaction to it.

Nov 25, 2024 · Klaus Mäkelä conducting the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Carnegie Hall, November 2024. Photo: Chris Lee.

The New Criterion is published by The Foundation for Cultural Review, a 501(c)(3) non-profit.

“D ep end upon it, sir,” said Dr. Johnson, “when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”. I suppose that in logic his mind ought to continue to concentrate further until he is actually upon the scaffold itself. By then, it should be at its maximum possible density.