The New Criterion, edited by Roger Kimball, was founded in 1982 by the art critic Hilton Kramer and the pianist and music critic Samuel Lipman. A monthly review of the arts and intellectual life, The ...

W. H. Auden (1907–73) was quite explicit about the origin of his poetic vocation. In “Making, Knowing and Judging,” a lecture he delivered at Oxford in 1956, Auden recalls that he decided to become a ...

(1974), the Supreme Court further broadened the group who could be maligned by the media to include “limited-purpose public ...

The other program, the subject of this review, appealed to more advanced balletomanes—works by Gianna Reisen, Ulysses Dove, ...

Jay Nordlinger on a performance of “Carmina Burana” at the Teatro Massimo.

David Platzer on the life of Lady Diana Cooper.

T he elder apostles of George Balanchine often gripe that his ballets, especially when staged by smaller companies, fall ...

Though the official day of the United States’ semiquincentennial has come and gone, there are still Revolutionary War achievements to be remembered. In The Spectator World, Patrick Allitt memorializes ...