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 S. Erickson
Associate Editor
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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.
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.