Robert S. Erickson is Associate Editor at The New Criterion. After serving as the magazine’s Hilton Kramer Fellow in 2019–20, he completed a post-baccalaureate year in Classics at Columbia University. He holds a BA in Classics and the Program in Literary Studies from Middlebury College.
Robert Erickson
Associate Editor
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Art April 2023
Exhibition note
On “Roman Landscapes: Visions of Nature and Myth from Rome and Pompeii” at the San Antonio Museum of Art.
Books April 2020
A sentiment of beings
A review of The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and Their Year of Marvels by Adam Nicolson.
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Jun 05, 2020
Week in review
On Bach, Titian & Charlie Parker.
May 29, 2020
Week in review
On Mozart, Simenon & Sherman.
May 23, 2020
Week in review
On prose style, “deep literacy” & Schiele and Klimt.
February 27, 2023
Robert Erickson & James Panero in conversation
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Robert Erickson and James Panero discuss Plutarch, plays, pastrami, and more. The second of our podcasts on the Hilton Kramer Fellowship.
The texts used in the New Criterion classics reading group are as follows:
—Histories, Herodotus, Landmark Edition, tr. Andrea L. Purvis, ed. Robert B. Strassler
—Persians, Aeschylus, tr. Janet Lembke & C. J. Herrington
—Theogony and Works & Days, Hesiod, tr. M. L. West
—Parallel Lives, Plutarch, tr. John Dryden, ed. Arthur Hugh Clough
—Metamorphoses, Ovid, tr. Charles Martin
—Aeneid, Vergil, tr. Sarah Ruden
November 29, 2021
Robert Erickson & James Panero discuss Herodotus & more
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James Panero, the Executive Editor of The New Criterion, sits down with Robert Erickson, Assistant Editor, to discuss the Histories of Herodotus and other major works in ancient Greek.