A review of a new production of I puritani might begin with the production—the stage direction, the set design, etc. Or it ...

New Criterion executive editor and New York Post columnist James Panero joins Cam to discuss his experience in applying for and receiving a NYC carry permit, as well as the hurdles he continues to ...

Anatoly Grablevsky on “Monet and Venice,” at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Trilling belonged to perhaps the last generation of academics who believed that they had something of general ...

In his “Petition to be buried on the beach at Sète,” Georges Brassens, another native of that windy little port town south of Montpellier, asks the “good master” Paul Valéry to pardon his proposal for ...

David Fromkin was a lawyer, professor, and historian. He was renowned for his chronicling of the history of the Middle East and the Ottoman Empire.

One late evening in December, 1985, I heard a radio talk-show host announce “a great loss: Robert Graves is dead.” It came as a shock, even though I had been hearing rumors for some time that the ...

Anatoly Grablevsky on the Decembrists, James I & the English party system.

What is American music? When the New York Tribune posed that question in 1924, George Gershwin answered with his epochal Rhapsody in Blue. Now the Palm Beach Symphony is attempting to address that ...

Much of what makes Diogenes the Cynic (d. ca. 323 B.C.) such a fascinating but difficult figure to reckon with can be gleaned from the opening anecdote of the most complete surviving biography of the ...

Fashions of literary criticism seem to have a half-life of about ten years. Interestingly enough, through all the changes of schools and approaches, the biography of writers has continued to compel an ...