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The Critic’s Notebook by the Editors. On Mondrian, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Henry Hobson Richardson, ancient moneymaking & more from the world of culture.
Dispatch - The New Criterion
2 天之前 · On Dino Buzatti, George Bellows, Lillie P. Bliss, Mahler’s Ninth, John Soane & more from the world of culture.
“The ferryman’s due,” by Patrick Kurp
A n obolus is a small silver coin the Greeks placed under the tongues of the dead so they could pay Charon as he ferried them across the river Styx to the underworld. Andrew Rickard named his Montreal-based publishing business Obolus Press because he translates and publishes works of literature by dead French and German writers that have never appeared in English.
The masterpiece of our time | The New Criterion
W he n Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation appeared in 1973, its impact, the author recalled, was immediate: “Like matter enveloped by antimatter, it exploded instantaneously!” The first translations into Western languages in 1974—just fifty years ago—proved almost as sensational. No …
“The dock,” by Christopher Hewitt
Careful. Ice enamels the planks. And strews a cloud-white archipelago where the graphite water courses north in a mile-wide furrow plowed by an Ice Age
The heart of fugue | The New Criterion
M an y people, if they wonder how music is made up, suppose that it consists of a tune and an accompaniment. The paradigmatic guitarist in front of a campfire croons the melody, while his hands create the harmonies that give it color. In the bel canto operas of Bellini, the diva astonishes with her delivery of the top line while the orchestra provides dutiful underpinning, moving from tonic to ...
“The profundity of evil,” by Douglas Murray
Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered for The New Criterion ’s sixth annual Circle Lecture on September 26, 2024.. O ve r the last six decades, a certain phrase has metastasized and become such a cliché that it has been used to describe all the following things and more: the coronavirus pandemic, Republican moderates, neoliberalism, January 6, …
The diversity myth | The New Criterion
Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at The New Criterion ’s gala on April 27, 2023, honoring Peter Thiel with the tenth Edmund Burke Award for Service to Culture and Society.. I w as involved in a good many campus and culture wars for almost a decade, in the late Eighties and early Nineties when I was at Stanford.
“Worse than fiction,” by the Editors
W il l there always be an England? Keir Starmer’s Labour Party has put the answer to that question very much in doubt. The prime minister’s strategy seems to be to look around for dystopian novels and then try out their plots in real life.
“Fashion-forward,” by Jane Coombs
2024年12月23日 · Jane Coombs on “Contemporary Choreography” at the New York City Ballet.