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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 ...
“Puccini meets Pasolini,” by Paul du Quenoy. - The New Criterion
Aug 1, 2024 · by. Paul du Quenoy. On Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca at the Bavarian State Opera, Munich. Tosca is a difficult opera to stage outside of its strictly prescribed time and setting. Based on the French playwright Victorien Sardou’s 1887 play La Tosca, Giacomo Puccini’s opera of love smothered by depravity, which premiered in 1900, is set in three ...
About | The New Criterion
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.”
“San Diego’s fresh sound,” by Nathan C. Stewart
Oct 9, 2024 · Nathan C. Stewart. On the opening night concert of the newly renovated Jacobs Music Center in San Diego. One of the factors upon which the quality of an orchestra is conditioned is the acoustics of its performance space. The hall sets the sounds made by the musicians in conversation with the ears of not only the audience, but also the players.
Baudelaire’s Modernism | The New Criterion
Charles Baudelaire was the first modern poet.[1] In both style and content, his provocative, alluring, and shockingly original work shaped and enlarged the imagination of later poets. His influence was not limited to France but spread across Europe and the Americas. His work guided the symbolist movement, which became the dominant school of ...
The Critic’s Notebook | The New Criterion
Jan 23, 2024 · S ubscribe. Each week the editors of The New Criterion offer recommendations on what to read, see, and hear in the world of culture in the weekly Critic’s Notebook. To get it first, subscribe to the free Critic’s Notebook email by clicking here. On Gerytades, Michele Oka Doner, Behzod Abduraimov, Tiepolo & more from the world of culture.
“The Critic’s Notebook,” by the Editors
Sep 24, 2024 · Each week the editors of The New Criterion offer recommendations on what to read, see, and hear in the world of culture in the weekly Critic’s Notebook. To get it first, subscribe to the free Critic’s Notebook email by clicking here. On Louise P. Sloane, an evening of piano, the Basilica Aemilia, rare books & more from the world of culture.
Penelope Fitzgerald, 1916-2000 | The New Criterion
Penelope Fitzgerald, 1916-2000. enelope Fitzgerald, a sublimely gifted and versatile writer, died in London on April 28, at the age of eighty-three. Her book reviews and essays are a model of amateur criticism. Her concise, discreet, intuitive lives remind us that biography belongs to literature, and that the ideal biographer is not an academic ...
The triumph of Thomas Sowell | The New Criterion
In 1930, the year he was born into a black family in Gastonia, North Carolina, the Great Depression was gathering strength. And Jim Crow was in full force, so he seldom encountered white people in his early years. As Riley explains, “He’d been turned away from restaurants and housing because of his skin color.