The Editors of The New Criterion are pleased to announce that David Lehman is the winner of the twenty-fifth New Criterion ...

The Editors of The New Criterion are pleased to announce that David Lehman is the winner of the twenty-fifth New Criterion ...

Sally Quinn won’t return my emails. Perhaps Quinn, the doyenne of Washington, D.C., and the widow of the Washington Post ...

Nathan C. Stewart on a performance of Benjamin Britten’s “The Turn of the Screw,” at the Spoleto Festival.

One photograph, however, was taken by a Coast Guard petty officer from the vantage point of a boat on the water, looking up ...

Max Sligh on “Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville.

Robert Steven Mack on historical recreations with the Paul Taylor Dance Company at the Joyce Theater.

BR Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851, Oil on canvas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ...

Kyle Smith on "Angry Alan," by Penelope Skinner at Studio Seaview.

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, ...

Modern France has several such books. Perhaps the most infamous is Jean Raspail’s apocalyptic novel of mass migration, The Camp of the Saints. Since its first publication in 1973, the novel has ...

Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship on February 27, 2025. I was recently invited to address the question “Can ...