Suzanna Murawski

Dec 20, 2024 | newcriterion.com | Suzanna Murawski

Recent stories of note:“Rousseau and the American Electorate”David Lewis Schaeffer, Law & Liberty“Profoundly original, profoundly influential, and profoundly dangerous”—these accolades were awarded by Roger Scruton in an October 1998 essay for The New Criterion to the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who is often blamed for the excesses of the French Revolution and other such utopian projects.

Dec 13, 2024 | newcriterion.com | Suzanna Murawski

Recent stories of note:“The Novels That Made Us”Valerie Stivers, CompactIs the novel going the way of the dinosaurs? One of its great exponents, Edwin Frank, the founder and editor of the NYRB Classics series, suggests as much in his new book. It’s called Stranger than Fiction, and in it, Frank recounts the development of the twentieth-century novel through a series of chapters on thirty-odd books. Running from Dostoevsky’s 1864 Notes from the Underground all the way to W. G.

Nov 1, 2024 | newcriterion.com | Douglas Murray |James Piereson |Hilton Kramer |Suzanna Murawski

Recent stories of note:“Hear a Chopin Waltz Unearthed After Nearly 200 Years”Javier C. Hernández, The New York TimesFrédéric Chopin died 175 years ago, so it’s not too often that his fans get to hear something new from him.

Sep 26, 2023 | newcriterion.com | Suzanna Murawski

One doesn’t generally head into Manhattan for a sylvan retreat. But such pleasant sanctuary is provided by “Into the Woods: French Drawings and Photographs from the Karen B. Cohen Gift” at the Morgan Library & Museum. The exhibition, featuring images of the Fontainebleau Forest by such Barbizon School masters as Camille Corot and Théodore Rousseau, debuts a recent gift to the museum alongside a handful of works already in the Morgan’s collection.

Sep 25, 2023 | newcriterion.com | Suzanna Murawski

The Swiss artist Ferdinand Hodler (1853–1918) adhered to a philosophy he termed “parallelism”: the belief that repetition and pattern intensify experience, serving as a source of revelation; separate objects become unified as they mirror each other, and this unity is the highest end of art.