Suzanna Murawski on Giotto’s frescoes, the university’s origins & an embattled Klimt.

So, yes: Buckley was the founding father of modern conservatism, the man who legitimized conservatism as an intellectual ...

From the audience—onstage and out in the seats—there was considerable appreciation, and Kissin sat down for his first encore: ...

Many American poets still take their tensions from Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath, whose confessional poetry (a term coined by the critic M. L. Rosenthal) has been the de facto manner for the past two ...

When the Yale Center for British Art first dropped anchor in 1977 on the far side of New Haven’s Chapel Street, the cultural ocean-liner arrived as one of the last great vessels from the golden age of ...

The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at The New Criterion ’s gala on April 24, 2025, honoring Heather Mac ...

Roger Kimball on the life & work of the prolific author.

Thomas Larcher, the Austrian composer, made one of the most charming remarks I have ever heard from a concert stage. The New York Philharmonic was about to play his Symphony No. 2. He had come out to ...

On The Technological Republic, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska.

On A. J. Liebling & Julian Green.

On Dickens the Enchanter, by Peter Conrad.