When, on the first day of the U.S. war with Iran—February 28, 2026—Ayatollah Ali Khamenei bit the dust, the mainstream press’s obituaries for this murderous tyrant included admiring references to his ...

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

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

There is much talk of dreams in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman (at the Winter Garden Theatre through August 9), and Willy Loman’s existence is defined, in the winter of his life, by his daydreams ...

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 ...

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, ...

Translated from the Danish by Ingvar Schousboe & William Jay Smith; introduction by William Jay Smith. When in 1974 the distinguished Danish poet Thorkild Bjørnvig published The Pact, the book caused ...

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 ...

For my generation—I was just old enough to vote for Margaret Thatcher in the 1979 United Kingdom general election—the first recognition of Benjamin Disraeli (1804–81) as anything beyond a ...

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 ...

Every culture has a literature that is to some extent subterranean. Much of it deserves to stay there. But certain pieces occasionally bubble to the surface. Invariably this happens because the work ...