The New Criterion
America’s leading review of the arts and intellectual life
- Harry Mount, the London Telegraph
Editor's noteThe Editors are pleased to announce that Ashley Anna McHugh is the winner of the tenth annual New Criterion Poetry Prize for a book length manuscript of poems that pay close attention to form. Ms. McHugh will receive $3,000 and her book Into These Knots will be published by Ivan R. Dee, Chicago. Weblog
Obama: “never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity” by Roger Kimball | from Pajamas Media Small earthquake in la-la land, or, Why is Sarah Palin Smiling? by Roger Kimball | from Pajamas Media “Sadists who were trying to be nice” by Roger Kimball | from Pajamas Media Most populargo to the complete list »February 2010Volume 28, Number 6Notes & comments On the Met's new galleries dedicated to art from the "Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Late South Asia." On linguistic timorousness off the Timor coast. On the costs of contemporary college education. Features A critical account of the "Chernyshevsky of individualism." On the godfather of modern conservatism & his intellectual legacy. Frost's notebooks: a disaster revisited On Harvard's half-baked reissue of The Notebooks of Robert Frost. February 2010Volume 28, Number 6Departments Poems Reconsiderations The most hated man in New York On ”Lincoln and New York” at the New-York Historical Society, New York. Theater On Race & Oleanna by David Mamet, Ernest in Love at the Irish Repertory Theater & Jerk by Gisèle Vienne Art by Karen Wilkin On “Cézanne, Picasso, Mondriaan” at the Geementsmuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands. On "The Conversation Piece: Scenes of Fashionable Life" at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London. by James Panero On the Bushwick art scene, the "Inaugural Exhibition" at Storefront, “The Wells Street Gallery Revisited: Then and Now” at Lesley Heller Workspace, “Works on Paper” at Danese & “Jack Tworkov: True and False” at Mitchell-Innes & Nash. Music On Elektra, Carmen & Turandot at the Metropolitan Opera, Messiah at the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra at Carnegie Hall & Anthony McGill at the Metropolitan Museum. The Media by James Bowman On the deleterious effects of political correctness on public policy. Notebook February 2010Volume 28, Number 6Books 
on Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic by Michael Scammell reviewed by Stephen Schwartz 
on The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M. Edsel,Bret Witter reviewed by Marco Grassi 
on The Venus Fixers: The Remarkable Story of the Allied Soldiers Who Saved Italy's Art During World War II by Ilaria Dagnini Brey reviewed by Marco Grassi 
on The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika by Xenophon,Robert B. Strassler,John Marincola,David Thomas reviewed by Alexander Nazaryan 
on A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-first Century by Cristina Nehring reviewed by Bruce S. Thornton |
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