Weekly recommendations from the Editors on what to read, see, and hear in the world of culture.

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 ...

Over the past twenty years or so, two titans of the Renaissance have been illuminated by capacious, legendary exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The shows “Leonardo da Vinci, Master ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Reflections on the philosopher, occasioned by the recent biography by Terry Pinkard. He described what he knew best or had heard most, and felt he had described the universe. —George Santayana, on ...

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

The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of supreme strength, of a life of maximum vigor, which has also been called the ideal of aesthetic greatness. That life is in truth the ...

David Platzer on the life of Lady Diana Cooper.