Features May 2019
“Unsavoury humbug”
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A review of Philip Larkin: Letters Home, edited by James Booth.
Topic: “Poetry”
Features April 2019
An interview with Christian Wiman
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The New Criterion’s poetry editor interviews the poet, editor, and teacher.
Features April 2019
Alcman among the nightingales
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On the Partheneion, by Alcman, Sparta’s greatest poet.
Poems April 2019
Dickens on fire
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Features April 2019
The poet as windowpane
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A review of James Wright: A Life in Poetry, by Jonathan Blunk.
Notes & Comments April 2019
Woke’s on you
On the “radical intersectionalist poet” Titania McGrath.
Features April 2019
Pound’s China/Pound’s “Cathay”
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A review of Cathay: A Critical Edition, by Ezra Pound, edited by Timothy Billings.
Mar 25, 2019
The Critic’s Notebook
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On Vasily Grossman, St. Matthew’s Passion, Tintoretto, Art Deco & more from the world of culture.
Mar 25, 2019
David Yezzi & James Panero discuss the 2019 poetry issue; a reading by Nicholas Friedman
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A conversation with our poetry editor and a reading by a New Criterion Poetry Prize–winner.