The new Epicureans
by Kenneth Minogue
The first in a series titled “The survival of culture.”
The first in a series titled “The survival of culture.”
Reflections on the philosopher, occasioned by the recent biography by Alastair Hannay.
A consideration of the novelist and anti-communist, and the accusations against him.
A consideration of Edith Wharton’s achievement upon the Library of America publication of her Collected Stories.
On revisionism in Australia, and the difficulties of challenging orthodoxy.
Occasioned by The Idea of Louis Sullivan, by John Szarkowski; Louis Sullivan: The Poetry of Architecture, by Robert Twombly and Narciso G. Menocal; Sullivan’s City: The Meaning of Ornament for Louis Sullivan, by David van Zanten.
A review of Spain Betrayed: The Soviet Union in the Spanish Civil War, edited by Ronald Radosh, Mary W. Harbeck, and Grigory Sevostianov.
A consideration of a new and bowdlerized edition of Homage to Catalonia.
On the poet and critic, upon the publication of Allen Tate: Orphan of the South, by Thomas A. Underwood.
On Beyond the Easel: Decorative Painting by Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis, and Roussel, 1890-1930, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
A chronicle of the early careers of Alexander Sitkovetsky, Ha-Na Chang, Matt Haimovitz, Piotr Anderszewski, Monica Groop, Ian Bostridge & Olli Mustonen.
On scandal stories and their cause.
A review of What My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay, by Daniel Mark Epstein, and Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay, by Nancy Milford.
A review of In the Anglo-Arab Labyrinth: The McMahon-Husayn Correspondence and Its Interpretations, by Elie Kedourie.
A review of Pietro Mascagni: A Bio-Bibliography, by Roger Flury.
Anthony Daniels on The Politics of Sex and Other Essays: On Conservatism, Culture, and Imagination, by Robert Grant.
Jeffrey Meyers on Dangerous Muse: The Life Of Lady Caroline Blackwood, by Nancy Schoenberger.
Notes & Comments
The New Criterion at twenty
by the Editors
Introducing Andante.com
by the Editors