John Simon was a distinguished critic and a regular contributor to The New Criterion.
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Reconsiderations January 2020
Chasing Nabokov
On Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews, and Letters to the Editor by Vladimir Nabokov, edited by Brian Boyd and Anastasia Tolstoy.
Books March 2019
Rat de l’Opéra
A review of Little Dancer Aged Fourteen: The True Story Behind Degas's Masterpiece by Camille Laurens.
Notebook November 2018
Critics & criticism
A legendary critic looks back on his career.
November 29, 2018
John Simon & James Panero discuss “Critics & criticism”
featuring &
Occasioned by Simon’s essay “Critics & criticism” in our November 2018 issue.