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

On Simon Raven, the art of the American West, and Georges Perec.

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

Every culture has a literature that is to some extent subterranean. Much of it deserves to stay there. But certain pieces occasionally bubble to the surface. Invariably this happens because the work ...

At least, that is, until now, with the advent of the Pascal Institute, in the Netherlands, with which St. John’s has formed a ...

David Platzer on the life of Lady Diana Cooper.

For the immediate future, and perhaps for a long way ahead, the continuity of our culture may have to be maintained by a very small number of people. —T. S. Eliot, in The Criterion (1939) It is now ...

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

The island of San Michele, the municipal cemetery of Venice, lies less than half a mile out in the lagoon. Here Ezra Pound and Joseph Brodsky are buried in the small Protestant section. San Michele is ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Refurbishing the old ideology was easy. It was only necessary to substitute other, more up-to-date oppositions ...