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Dec 17, 2024 | 
newcriterion.com | Sarah Ruden |Anthony Daniels |Larry P. Arnn |John Simon
While William Faulkner remains the leading figure in the flowering of Southern literature from the middle of the last century, more than a few others are well worth any reader’s attention: Robert Penn Warren, Flannery O’Connor, Caroline Gordon, Eudora Welty, Ernest Gaines, and Peter Taylor in fiction, for instance, and John Crowe Ransom and Allen Tate in poetry.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
tolerance.ca | John Simon
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | John Simon
How can we tell if the Reserve Bank of Australia – which sets the interest rates that shape our national and household budgets – is doing a good job? That’s partly what the Albanese government set out to test in of the bank in 2022. When that review reported back last year, many people were surprised it devoted so much of its attention to governance and culture, rather than things such as its inflation target, which helps the bank set interest rates.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
newcriterion.com | Isaac Sligh |Jeffrey Peter Hart |James Panero |John Simon
Recent stories of note:“‘After 1177 B.C.’ Review: How the Bronze Age Turned Iron”Dominic Green, The Wall Street JournalIn March, Dominic Green treated the Friends of The New Criterion to a brisk anatomy of the twenty-first century’s savages—those who seek to destroy the West’s cultural institutions. But he also offered a hopeful forecast for these institutions’ futures.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
newcriterion.com | Isaac Sligh |Jeffrey Peter Hart |James Panero |John Simon
Over the course of the thirty years that I taught art history to college undergraduates, introducing my students to the manuscript illuminations and panel paintings of the fifteenth-century Flemish painter Jan van Eyck always gave me an especial pleasure.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
newcriterion.com | Isaac Sligh |Jeffrey Peter Hart |James Panero |John Simon
Take comfort! You would not seek me had you not found me. —Blaise PascalWhere I came from, I cannot say for sure. These pathsbear no names. The houses to which they leadover the remains of snowfields hover in the east wind like hawks. Fog born from the Bohemian basin, and aglow in the distance,the last village before the border, the rocks sinking into sleep,broad-browed, cold, having drunk from Saxony’s Lethe.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
newcriterion.com | John Simon
There are good, questionable, and bad reasons for wishing to read someone’s collected letters. The sound reason is simply wanting to know that remarkable person better; to become, at least vicariously, a confidant and friend. The more dubious reason is wanting to impress people who haven’t read the book with juicy anecdotes—human, all too human. The unsound reason is trying to derive some previously secret formula for success and fame.
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Oct 6, 2023 | 
adventist.news | John Simon
Within about 30 months of its initial release, Heroes: The Bible Trivia Game has surpassed 1 million downloads. This impressive milestone is a testament to the app’s popularity, yet it is the testimonies that speak to something more significant: its spiritual and evangelistic impact. Elite CompanyThe surge past 1 million downloads has placed Heroes in rarified air when it comes to Seventh-day Adventist apps.
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Jul 18, 2023 | 
newcriterion.com | John Simon
Verse translators come in three varieties: Those who get almost nothing right; those (the majority) who get some things right; and those rare birds who get everything, or at least almost everything, right. By everything I mean the three Ms: Music, Metaphor, and Meaning. By music I mean meter, rhythm, cadence, and, where it exists, rhyme.
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Feb 13, 2023 | 
newcriterion.com | John Simon
Elias Lönnrot, a scholar who walked about collecting the ancient material, pared it down very considerably and fairly freely imposed his shaping hand on it. Out of some hundred thousand verses, he arrived at twelve thousand, ordered into thirty-two runes (cantos) for the first edition of 1835; the second, definitive one of 1849 comprises twenty-three thousand verses in fifty runes.
