Contact Isaac Sligh, [email protected], to RSVP or inquire about membership.

David Dubal, an esteemed pianist, pedagogue, lecturer, New Criterion contributor, and writer on music history, is a household name among classical aficionados thanks to his nationally syndicated radio programs Reflections from the Keyboard and The Piano Matters. On October 24, David will present an exclusive version of his beloved “Piano Evening” salons for the magazine’s Friends. This intimate affair will feature a live performance by the celebrated pianist Cecile Licad of Chopin’s 24 Preludes, Op. 28, with commentary from David.

Contact Isaac Sligh, [email protected], to RSVP or inquire about membership.

Founded in New Haven in 1902, J. Press has simultaneously pioneered and preserved the best of American men’s clothing—be it the 3/2-roll sack suit, the flap-pocket Oxford shirt, or the Shaggy Dog sweater. Richard Press, the grandson of the company’s founder, will greet the magazine’s Friends at a visit to the J. Press shop on 44th Street and will present his recent book on the history of J. Press and his life in the world of American tailoring, Threading the Needle. 

Contact Isaac Sligh, [email protected], to RSVP or inquire about membership.

Join The New Criterion and Encounter Books for cocktails, conversation, and good cheer at our much-loved year-end bash.

D. J. Taylor, the critic, novelist, longtime New Criterion contributor, and acclaimed biographer of George Orwell, will present his two new books for the magazine’s Friends: Orwell: The New Life (Simon & Schuster) and Who is Big Brother? A Reader’s Guide to George Orwell (Yale UP).

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 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 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 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 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 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.

 Holiday Party

The Offices of The New Criterion & Encounter Books

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

[email protected]

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