September 2011
The New Criterion at 30
Announcing our anniversary season.
Announcing our anniversary season.
On the ivory sepulcher.
The first entry in our series “Future tense: the lessons of culture in an age of upheaval.”
On the role of the positive in fiction.
On the ailing state of higher education.
On the vitality of the Jolly Journalist’s work.
On the enduring legacy of the Loeb Library.
On the poetry of Stephen Crane.
On “justice” in the age of Obama.
On Ezra Pound’s correspondence with his parents.
On the Department of State’s diplomatic flop at the Venice Biennale.
On the sublime artistry of Lorenzo Lotto.
On Paul Claudel’s lasting influence in French letters.
On the relationship between poetry and joke-telling.
Reconsidering the power of photography.
On the politicization of historiography.
On the RSC’s Romeo and Juliet, Sleep No More & Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark.
On “The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde” & “Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore.”
On “The Vorticists” at Tate Britain.
On “Kurt Schwitters: Color & Collage” at Houston’s Menil Collection.
On “The American Style: Colonial Revival & the Modern Metropolis” at the Museum of the City of New York.
On “Simon Dinnerstein: The Fulbright Triptych & Selected Works” at The German Consulate General, New York.
On Bruckner & the Lincoln Center Festival.
On the intellectual vanity of our public culture.
I.M. Patrick Leigh Fermor, 1915–2011.
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