Does shame have a future?
by Roger Kimball
On Professor Martha Nussbaum’s polemic against shame and disgust & why these emotions “are accomplices, not impediments, to that attack on hubris.”
Features
The unauthorized Anthony Powell
by Brooke Allen
On Michael Barber’s unauthorized Anthony Powell: A Life.
Petrarch: a splendid excess
by Eric Ormsby
On Francesco Petrarch’s love, hate, and precision of feeling.
Mr. Hyde & the epidemiology of evil
by Theodore Dalrymple
On a persistent misunderstanding of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Poems
Most popular
London journal
The phobia of phobias
by John Gross
On Mayor Livingstone’s embrace of Dr. al-Qaradawi & Islamophobia as “the most dangerous of current social evils.”
Subscribe for access to every article and ten print issues.
Theater
Summer in Williamstown
by Mark Steyn
On Gregory Boyd’s revival of Noel Coward’s Design for Living, three one-act plays by Michael John LaChiusa & Nicholas Martin’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.
Art
“Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet!”
by Karen Wilkin
On “‘Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet!’: The Bruyas Collection from the Musée Fabre, Montpellier” at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
Seurat’s “Sunday” Painting
by Hilton Kramer
On Seurat and the Making of “La Grande Jatte” at the Art Institute of Chicago.
A MESSAGE FROM THE EDITORS
Support our crucial work and join us in strengthening the bonds of civilization.
Your donation sustains our efforts to inspire joyous rediscoveries.
Music
Great conductors, the end
by Jay Nordlinger
On a final batch of conductors from the series titled Great Conductors of the 20th Century including Eduard van Beinum, Rudolf Kempe, Rafael Kubelik, Sergiu Celibidache, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Arturo Toscanini & George Szell.
The media
Smug self-righteousness
by James Bowman
On “the precipitous decline in the quality and intelligence of the political dialogue in our democracy.”
Books
WFB: Against the prevailing winds
by William McGurn
A review of Miles Gone By: A Literary Autobiography, by William F. Buckley, Jr.
A disgraceful career
by Keith Windschuttle
Faking it
by Marco Grassi
A review of The Expert versus the Object: Judging Fakes & False Attributions in the Visual Arts, edited by Ronald D. Spencer.
A literary river
by Stephen Schwartz
A review of The Case of Comrade Tulayev, by Victor Serge, translated by Willard R. Trask, introduction by Susan Sontag.
Why the long face?
by Stefan Beck
A review of Welcome to Lizard Motel: Children, Stories, and the Mystery of Making Things Up, by Barbara Feinberg.
Literature v. trivia
by Tess Lewis
Great Scott
by David Grosz
A review of Reliquiæ Trotcosienses, by Sir Walter Scott.
Shorter notices
by Roger Kimball
A review of Multitude, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s second collaboration.
Shorter notices
by Roger Kimball
On a new printing of Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason.
Shorter notices
by James Panero
A review of Hotel Bemelmans, from the author best known for his Madeline books.
Shorter notices
by James Panero
A review of Americans in Paris, the new Library of America anthology.
Notebook
Kermit Swiler Champa, 1939-2004
by James Panero
On the passing of Kermit Swiler Champa, an art historian and professor of art history at Brown University.
Notes & Comments
“Exceptionally tasteful?”
by The Editors
On the vanishing distinction between the “transgressive” and the “merely repellent” at SITE Santa Fe.
Meanwhile in the ivory tower
by The Editors
On the new trend of “casino and gambling majors” in universities across the country.
Ave et vale
by The Editors
On a few staff changes here at The New Criterion.
Donald Justice, 1925-2004
by The Editors
On the passing of a poet and a long time contributor to The New Criterion.