Isaac Sligh is Associate Editor of The New Criterion. He served as the magazine’s eighth Hilton Kramer Fellow in Criticism. A graduate of the University of the South, Isaac worked as the head curator of the Ralston Listening Library and Archive in Sewanee, TN, one of the nation’s largest collections of recorded classical music and a charitably endowed venue for audiophile listening. He is currently translating a novel with his wife by the bestselling Russian author Viktor Pelevin, for which they received a 2020 RusTrans Award for Russian-to-English Translation. Isaac has lived and traveled in the Caucasus and usually writes on classical music, Renaissance poetry, and Eastern European culture.
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Sep 01, 2023
Village people
On Jack Serio’s production of Uncle Vanya, by Anton Chekhov.
Jul 25, 2023
Race to the Finnish
On the first night of the BBC Proms.
Jun 27, 2023
Empire burlesque
On "Komar and Melamid: A Lesson in History" at the Zimmerli Art Museum in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
May 04, 2023
Isaac Sligh & James Panero in conversation
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Isaac Sligh & James Panero discuss the Republic of Georgia, Crusaders, travel writing, audiophiles & more. The third of our podcasts on the Hilton Kramer Fellowship.
To read Isaac’s article on Crusaders and the Caucasus in The Critic, click here.
To learn more about the Ralston Listening Library, which Isaac used to curate, click here.
February 01, 2021
Isaac Sligh & James Panero discuss Russia & beyond
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James Panero, the Executive Editor of The New Criterion, sits down with Isaac Sligh, the magazine’s eighth Hilton Kramer Fellow, to discuss his travels in the Russian Arctic and in the Caucasus Mountains of Georgia.