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5 days ago · On Aesop’s fables, James Little, the Shakers, Sibelius, Nikolaus Pevsner & more from the world of culture. November 1, 2024.
Kamala Harris’s Michael Dukakis moment - The New Criterion
Jul 23, 2024 · Bush carried forty states and won 426 electoral votes, compared to just 111 electoral votes for Dukakis. No national candidate has won by a larger electoral margin since. Kamala Harris is now enjoying this kind of moment as she racks up endorsements in anticipation of the Democratic National Convention in August.
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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 New Criterion began as an experiment in critical audacity—a publication devoted to engaging, in Matthew Arnold’s famous phrase, with “the best that has been thought and said.”
“My James Bond,” by David Platzer
Sep 16, 2024 · by. David Platzer. On the sixtieth anniversary of Ian Fleming’s death. August 12, 2024, marked the sixtieth anniversary of Ian Fleming’s death. His creation James Bond entered the world a little more than a decade before he died, with the 1953 publication of Fleming’s taut Casino Royale. The first Bond novel was well-received in Britain ...
What all the fuss is about | The New Criterion
Feb 22, 2024 · When Mr. Lim took the stage last night, he got right down to business: no fuss, no muss. He bowed, soberly, and sat down to play immediately. This would be his demeanor all night long. A sober formality, as the audience went nuts. He is comfortable onstage. He has been there before. He knows how it goes, already.
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Week in review | The New Criterion
Aug 2, 2024 · Jacob Howland, UnHerd. At the heart of civilization lie separation and distinction: between parent and child, teacher and student, human and animal, human and god. We learn this in Genesis, in which Creation consists in the separation of day and night, heaven and the waters, land and sea, and so on. But the earth was first formless—and, as we ...
The groundbreaking daguerreotype | The New Criterion
Apr 24, 2019 · Robert Becker. On “Monumental Journey: The Daguerreotypes of Girault de Prangey” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Until this spring, the name Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey was hardly known outside a small circle of photography collectors and academics. But it was Girault (1804–92), a quintessential nineteenth-century French ...