After the overture came a song-cycle, and, this being an all-Berlioz concert, you know which one: Les Nuits d’été. The ...

The book begins with Rowe’s visit to a fête, which revives happy memories of his youth. He stops by gift booths, plays ...

In a year of much discussion of the Man of Twists and Turns, it was fitting that the Orchestra of the Greek National Opera ...

Watch Lionel Shriver deliver the Eighth Annual Circle Lecture, “What do progressives really want?” A version of the remarks appear in the November 2026 issue of The New Criterion.

On high culture, Ronnie Landfield, Rembrandt, urban architecture & more from the world of culture. Ronnie Landfield, Across the Wall, 2016, Acrylic on canvas, Findlay Galleries. “Ronnie Landfield: ...

Photo of the design room of Tiffany Studios from an advertising pamphlet. Image: Metropolitan Museum of Art. The pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet. Photo: New York Philharmonic. “Thibaudet Performs Liszt,” ...

The concert at David Geffen Hall on Saturday night was a promising one—more than promising, a lock-cinch guarantee. Three top-flight musicians gathered to play a program of piano trios. Those ...

Raymond Asquith (1878–1916)—the son of the British prime minister H. H. Asquith, a wit, scholar, barrister, and, at the end of his life, soldier—was the stuff of legend. In the years before 1914, he ...

The Czech novelist Milan Kundera was in his late thirties when he published his first novel, The Joke, in Prague in 1967. The book traces the fortunes and amours of a young student, Ludvik, after his ...

On The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, by Robert A. Caro. The one trait shared by everyone who seeks the modern U.S. presidency is a sociopathic indifference to normal human behaviors ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Furthermore, I don’t think Sterling would have minded the description, though his widow (my mother) was less than ...