Issues
Features
The literary life today
by Joseph Epstein
On the state of American literary culture.
Berlin 1928
by Elias Canetti
Reflections on Old Berlin, translated from the German by Joachim Neugroschel.
Postmodern: art and culture in the 1980s
by Hilton Kramer
On postmodernism and the institutionalization of the avant-garde.
F. R. Leavis: a revaluation
by Norman Podhoretz
On the editor of Scrutiny.
Enclosures: Barbara Pym
by Hortense Calisher
On the tradition and inspiration of Barbara Pym.
Music
American opera: honors and performances
by Samuel Lipman
On the history of American performances.
Most popular
Architecture
The new museum
by William H. Jordy
On New American Art Museums at the Whitney.
Art
The Eakins retrospective
by Hilton Kramer
On the Thomas Eakins retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Books
Subscribe for access to every article and ten print issues.
Notebook
Calder’s no-fault “Circus”
by Joseph Masheck
On the historical perspective of Calder’s notion of “drawing in space.”
Notes & Comments
A note on The New Criterion
by The Editors
An inaugural statement from the founding editors of The New Criterion.