Warren Frye on “The Last Peasant War,” by Jakub S. Beneš.

Editors’ note: It is difficult to believe that it was ten years ago last month that Hilton Kramer, the founding editor of The New Criterion, died, aged eighty-four. Time really does seem to speed up ...

Suzanna Murawski on “Ravelstein,” Marsden Hartley & a new canvas adhesive.

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 ...

Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at The New Criterion’s gala on April 24, 2025, honoring Heather Mac Donald with the twelfth Edmund Burke Award for Service to ...

Paul du Quenoy is President of the Palm Beach Freedom Institute. He holds a Ph. D. in History from Georgetown University. On a concert of Berg & Stravinsky by the San Francisco Symphony.

On the West’s latest self-flagellation.

For example, the latest Michelin Guide considers the best two restaurants in Washington, D.C., to be minibar and Jônt, ...

In his Lives of the Artists, Vasari credits Giotto as having no less than the status of nature itself: deserving to be imitated by painters everywhere. Giotto’s revolutionary fresco cycle in the ...