The New Criterion invites its Friends and Young Friends to an evening with Dr. Alexander Chula in celebration of his new book Goodbye, Dr Banda: Lessons for the West From a Small African Country (Polygon).

Thursday, March 14, 6 p.m.
New York

RSVP to Isaac Sligh ([email protected]) by March 4 for details.

Alexander Chula is a medical doctor and writer working in London. His work has appeared in The New Criterion, among other venues.

The New Criterion invites its Friends and Young Friends to celebrate the recipient of the twenty-third New Criterion Poetry Prize, Peter Vertacnik. Peter’s collection The Nature of Things Fragile is out now from Criterion Books.

Thursday, April 4, 6 p.m.
New York

RSVP to Isaac Sligh ([email protected]) for details.

The New Criterion invites its Friends and Young Friends to celebrate the close of Volume 42 at a cocktail party in New York.

Thursday, June 6, 6 p.m.

RSVP to Isaac Sligh for details.

The New Criterion invites its Friends and Young Friends to an evening of cocktails and conversation with the painter Judy Kudlow at a private club in New York.

April 18, 6 p.m.

RSVP to Isaac Sligh ([email protected]) by April 10 for details.

The Eleventh Edmund Burke Award for Service to Culture and Society will be awarded to Ronald S. Lauder at a special gala evening in New York. Visit

newcriterion.com/gala for more details and to purchase tickets.

May 2, 6:30 p.m.

The Metropolitan Club, New York

For questions, please contact Isaac Sligh:
 [email protected]

The New Criterion invites its Friends and Young Friends to cocktails and conversation with Dominic Green, critic for The Wall Street Journal and The New Criterion.

Thursday, February 29, 6 p.m.

Business attire.

RSVP to Isaac Sligh ([email protected]) for details.

The New Criterion

invites members of its Circle to

the fifth annual Circle Lecture:

“The burden of the humanities”

delivered by Visiting Critic Wilfred M. McClay

Thursday, September 28, 2023

New York City

A Circle of The New Criterion event

 Holiday Party

The Offices of The New Criterion & Encounter Books

900 Broadway, Suites 601 & 602, New York, NY, 10003, United States

[email protected]

On March 7, the Editors of  The New Criterion sat down for an evening of food and discussion with a group of Young Friends supporters at The Knickerbocker Club.

The guest speaker of the evening was Dominic Green, a prolific contributor to The New Criterion, who discussed the enduring relevance and success of quality print magazines in the so-called “death of print” era. Green is also a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, The Spectator, National Review, The Atlantic, and other various publications.

Please join your friends at 

The New Criterion and Encounter Books 

To celebrate the summer season 

Thursday, June 8

New York, 6:00 p.m.

To rsvp, email Isaac Sligh at [email protected]