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The New Criterion, edited by Roger Kimball, was founded in 1982 by the art critic Hilton Kramer and the pianist and music critic Samuel Lipman.A monthly review of the arts and intellectual life, The New Criterion began as an experiment in critical audacity—a publication devoted to engaging, in Matthew Arnold’s famous phrase, with “the best that has been thought and said.”
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 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 …
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Klaus & Co. | The New Criterion
Nov 25, 2024 · Klaus Mäkelä conducting the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Carnegie Hall, November 2024. Photo: Chris Lee.
The triumph of Thomas Sowell | The New Criterion
T ho mas Sowell is one of the towering American intellectuals of our time. An economist trained at the University of Chicago and a social theorist of the first rank, he has been a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University since 1980.
“Week in review,” by Suzanna Murawski
Dec 6, 2024 · Recent stories of note: “Lines of Insight” Stephen Smith, Literary Review Piet Mondrian is known, of course, for his red, yellow, and blue. And after he made the switch from Post-Impressionism to De Stijl, he apparently stuck to his guns: during the Blitz, when friends told him to flee London and head to the country, he replied, “It is too green.”