The beginnings: first words, first lines, first stories
by Joshua T. Katz
The New Criterion’s Visiting Critic delivers the fourth annual Circle Lecture.
The New Criterion’s Visiting Critic delivers the fourth annual Circle Lecture.
On Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy by Henry Kissinger.
On the memoirs of Robert Lowell.
On Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova by Leo Damrosch.
On Death of a Salesman, Cost of Living, and This Beautiful Future.
On “Murillo: From Heaven to Earth” at the Kimbell Art Museum.
On “Aubrey Beardsley, 150 Years Young” at the Grolier Club, “At the Dawn of a New Age: Early Twentieth-Century American Modernism” at the Whitney, “Kim Uchiyama: Heat and Shadow” at The Lobby Gallery of 499 Park Avenue, “Gabriele Evertz: Path” at Minus Space, and “John Bradford: For the Love of Paint” at Anna Zorina Gallery.
On a Bargemusic concert, a David Briggs recital, an Emily D’Angelo and Sophia Muñoz recital, and the Royal Opera of Madrid.
On media doublespeak.
On Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov, Baron Bagge by Alexander Lernet-Holenia, Kick the Latch by Kathryn Scanlan & Trust by Hernan Diaz.
On The Matter With Things by Iain McGilchrist.
Notes & Comments
The obvious thing
by the Editors
On Black Lives Matter, Kanye West & Paris Fashion Week.
Doctor’s orders
by the Editors
On the spreading infection of wokeness in medicine.
No pal PayPal
by the Editors
On a new type of corporate theft.