The New Criterion
The New Criterion is probably more consistently worth reading than any other magazine in English.
- The Times Literary Supplement
June 2013Volume 31, Number 10Departments Poems Reconsiderations Yue Minjun's haunting laughter Chinese artist Yue Minjun speaks out about China’s problems in his paintings. Theater After getting tossed from Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 for throwing another patron's cellphone, Kevin D. Williamson provides coverage of Orphans, Jekyll & Hyde, and Bull: The Bullfight Play. Art by Karen Wilkin On the refurbished Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam and "The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America" at the newly renovated Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven. by Mario Naves On "Albrecht Dürer: Master Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints from the Albertina” at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. On "The William S. Paley Collection: A Taste for Modernism” at the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine. by James Panero On “Jeff Koons: Gazing Ball” at David Zwirner, “Jeff Koons: New Paintings and Sculpture” at Gagosian Gallery, “Andrew Seto: Lazy Reader” at Theodore:Art, Brooklyn, “James Little: Never Say Never, Recent Work” at June Kelly Gallery, “William Meyers: New York, Look & Listen” at Nailya Alexander Gallery, and “Don Voisine” at McKenzie Fine Art. Music On recent performances by Isabel Leonard, the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, the Staatskapelle Dresden, Mitsuko Uchida, and more. The Media by James Bowman Equations, austerity, and the limitations of clinging to theory. Verse Chronicle On The Word on the Street by Paul Muldoon, Mayakovsky’s Revolver by Matthew Dickman, Come, Thief by Jane Hirshfield, Quick Question by John Ashbery, The Late Parade by Adam Fitzgerald, and Red Doc> by Anne Carson. Notebook June 2013Volume 31, Number 10Books 
on Tocqueville: The Aristocratic Sources of Liberty by Lucien Jaume,Arthur Goldhammer reviewed by Harvey Mansfield 
on Evangelical Catholicism: Deep Reform in the 21st-Century Church by George Weigel reviewed by George Sim Johnston 
on The End Is Near and It's Going to Be Awesome: How Going Broke Will Leave America Richer, Happier, and More Secure by Kevin D. Williamson reviewed by James Piereson |
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