It operates as a refuge for a civilizing element in short supply in contemporary America: honest criticism
EDITOR Esfahani Smith, Emily Kelly, Brian P. Kimball, Roger Panero, James Yezzi, David
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Bennett, Kelsey Bentley, Toni Bergman, David Bergmann, Meredith Bernstein, Jeremy Berry, J. Duncan Betancourt, Philip P. Bjornvig, Thorkild Black, Conrad Black, Jeremy Blackburn, Tom Blainey, Geoffrey Blake, Patricia Blasing, Randy Blasing, Randy Bloch, Bradley Bloom, Allan Bloom, Jeffrey Blumenthal, Michael Bobko, Jane Bolton, Joe Bolton, John R. Bonner, Betsy Bork, Mary Ellen Bork, Robert Bose, Sudip Bottum, Joseph Bowman, James Boyers, Peg Boyers, Robert Boyle, Brendan Bradberry, James Bradley, George Brandow, Michael Brent, Jonathan Brock, Geoffrey Brock, Horace Brookhiser, Richard Brookner, Anita Brooks, Cleanth Brown, Clarence Brown, Dan Brown, Frederick Brown, Sylvia Bruscino, Thomas Buckland, Gail Buckley, Frank Buckley Jr., William F. Bunting III, Gen. Josiah Butterfield, Andrew Cahn, Gabriel Caldwell, Christopher Calisher, Hortense Campbell, Scott Campion, Peter Canetti, Elias Cannon, Peter Cantor, Norman Carduff, Christopher Carlin, Michael Carmean, Jr., E. A. 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Joseph Epstein
Joseph Epstein is the author of Gossip: The Untrivial Pursuit (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) and Fred Astaire (Yale University Press).
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The James cult | October 2012
On the work of Henry James, and his loyal following.
A serious man | May 2012
The friendship, work, and life of Hilton Kramer.
Heavy sentences | June 2011
On How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One, by Stanley Fish.
The long, unhappy life of Saul Bellow | December 2010
On the novelist's flaws, foibles & fallings-out.
The permanent transient | June 2009
Santayana in his letters.
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In a Cardboard Belt!: Essays Personal, Literary, and Savage
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Joseph Epstein on the future of small magazines, from an evening with the Friends of The New Criterion
Posted on: 01/18/2008
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Joseph Epstein, Roger Kimball
