The book begins with Rowe’s visit to a fête, which revives happy memories of his youth. He stops by gift booths, plays ...
In a year of much discussion of the Man of Twists and Turns, it was fitting that the Orchestra of the Greek National Opera ...
The performance was dull. “Insuperably dull,” to borrow a phrase from William F. Buckley Jr. (who was describing a book).
The man is inarticulate.” Writing to his future wife Katharine in 1906 while in Cairo (a place he cared for no more than he ...
Watch Lionel Shriver deliver the Eighth Annual Circle Lecture, “What do progressives really want?” A version of the remarks appear in the November 2026 issue of The New Criterion.
On high culture, Ronnie Landfield, Rembrandt, urban architecture & more from the world of culture. Ronnie Landfield, Across the Wall, 2016, Acrylic on canvas, Findlay Galleries. “Ronnie Landfield: ...
Photo of the design room of Tiffany Studios from an advertising pamphlet. Image: Metropolitan Museum of Art. The pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet. Photo: New York Philharmonic. “Thibaudet Performs Liszt,” ...
The Czech novelist Milan Kundera was in his late thirties when he published his first novel, The Joke, in Prague in 1967. The book traces the fortunes and amours of a young student, Ludvik, after his ...
On The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, by Robert A. Caro. The one trait shared by everyone who seeks the modern U.S. presidency is a sociopathic indifference to normal human behaviors ...
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