One wonders what might have happened if the Great Depression hadn’t intervened in her career, obliging her to retreat to her family in Morgantown, West Virginia, and take assignments from the Works ...

The Editors of The New Criterion are pleased to announce that Midge Goldberg is the winner of the twenty-sixth New Criterion ...

Seldom can any author have taken Horace’s dictum that the artist should delight and instruct as seriously as did Bernard Shaw. The notion of art for art’s sake, the guiding principle for so many ...

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

Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at The New Criterion’s gala on April 22, 2026, honoring Harvey Mansfield with the thirteenth Edmund Burke Award for Service to ...

Publishing in the Western world is an enterprise whose success depends on freedom of expression enjoyed in Western countries. Reputable publishers know this, and do not lightly accept restraints on ...

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

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

On “Spectacular Balanchine!” at American Contemporary Ballet, Los Angeles. Opening the program is the “Sweet and Lowdown” section from Who Cares?, Balanchine’s 1970 ballet set to the music of George ...