The New Criterion
The New Criterion is a monthly arts and intellectual review that was established in 1982 by art critic Hilton Kramer and music critic Samuel Lipman, under the editorship of Roger Kimball. This publication started as a bold experiment in critical thought, aiming to explore “the best that has been thought and said,” a phrase made famous by Matthew Arnold. It actively confronts those who seek to undermine authentic cultural and intellectual achievements through confusion, politicization, or absurdity. The New Criterion takes pride in being a leader in celebrating the most significant and human aspects of our cultural heritage while also revealing dishonest, damaging, and false narratives. Released monthly from September to June, it features a diverse group of both emerging and established critics, all dedicated to delivering some of the sharpest criticism available today.
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newcriterion.com | Robert Erickson |Douglas Murray |Suzanna Murawski |Emma Richards
Nonfiction:Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global, by Laura Spinney (Bloomsbury): The peak of Babeldom was probably realized during the Neolithic Age, “the moment in the human story,” as Laura Spinney notes in her new book Proto, “when more languages were spoken than at any other”—when a worldwide population in the tens of millions talked in as many as fifteen thousand different tongues.
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newcriterion.com | Paul du Quenoy |Robert Erickson |Andrew Shea |Suzanna Murawski
The San Franciso Symphony’s season is ending better than it started, though the conclusion is bittersweet with the all-too-soon departure of its music director, Esa-Pekka Salonen, the award-winning Finnish conductor and composer who has led the orchestra since 2020.
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newcriterion.com | Suzanna Murawski |Robert Erickson |Andrew Shea |Douglas Murray
Recent stories of note:“Saul Bellow’s Ravelstein”Matt Dinan, The Hedgehog ReviewWhen Saul Bellow’s Ravelstein was published twenty-five years ago, it was widely lambasted as, in the words of one critic, a “shockingly bad” memoir of “cruel violations” for revealing unsavory private details about the scholar Allan Bloom, upon whom the novel’s character Abe Ravelstein was based. But if you look a little closer, the correspondence is not so one-to-one.
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newcriterion.com | Mark Judge |Robert Erickson |Andrew Shea |Douglas Murray
In 2020 a brilliant novel was published called The Standardization of Demoralization Procedures, by Jennifer Hofmann. Kirkus called it “a remarkable first novel that reads like the work of a seasoned pro.”Despite great reviews, Standardization did not hit the bestseller lists. At the time of publication, the country was focused on the George Floyd riots and the fallout from COVID. Still, for those of us who read the book, it left a lasting impression.
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newcriterion.com | Mark Judge
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