The beginnings: first words, first lines, first stories
by Joshua T. Katz
The New Criterion’s Visiting Critic delivers the fourth annual Circle Lecture.
Features
Kissinger looks back
by Conrad Black
On Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy by Henry Kissinger.
Lowell in the mirror
by William Logan
On the memoirs of Robert Lowell.
The mythmaker
by Pat Rogers
On Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova by Leo Damrosch.
Poems
Theater
Regrets, they’ve had a few
by Kyle Smith
On Death of a Salesman, Cost of Living, and This Beautiful Future.
Art
Murillo at the Kimbell
by Karen Wilkin
On “Murillo: From Heaven to Earth” at the Kimbell Art Museum.
Gallery chronicle
by James Panero
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.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On a Bargemusic concert, a David Briggs recital, an Emily D’Angelo and Sophia Muñoz recital, and the Royal Opera of Madrid.
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The media
Only joking
by James Bowman
On media doublespeak.
Fiction chronicle
Hard times
by Andrew Stuttaford
On Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov, Baron Bagge by Alexander Lernet-Holenia, Kick the Latch by Kathryn Scanlan & Trust by Hernan Diaz.
Books
The thing about things
by Jonathan Gaisman
On The Matter With Things by Iain McGilchrist.
Gentleman at arms
by William Anthony Hay
The trouble with tyranny
by Glenn Ellmers
Singing the blues
by Paul Dicken
Hail Mary
by Carl Rollyson
Bearden in black & white
by Paul Devlin
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.