No sport—not even boxing or baseball or tennis—has inspired a literature as impressive as cricket has, and this may be in part because the earliest competitive years of cricket were dominated by ...

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

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 ...

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

C ar ol Bove was born in Geneva in 1971 to American parents. Since the 1990s she has lived and worked in New York. Her career belongs to this century. In the summer of 2021 astonishing sculptures by ...

Hadley Arkes on “Alito,” by Mollie Hemingway. T he late, beloved professor Leo Strauss remarked in one of his asides that “the Bible begins reasonably,” which is to say it begins at “ the beginning.” ...

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

On Francisco de Zurbarán, Richard Strauss, urban photography, Madison Square Park & more from the world of culture.

On March 29, 1516, the Senate of the Most Serene Republic of Venice issued a decree that redefined the relationship between Jews and Christians in the city. The edict stipulated that, “in order to ...

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

Whatever happened to the Regency gentleman—or rake—who whiled away his days drinking, flirting, and generally getting up to no good? Perhaps his spirit died with Simon Raven (1927–2001), one of the ...