De Kooning was born in Rotterdam in 1904. As a youth he studied for eight years at a conservative academy of art, where the curriculum included De Stijl due to the Dutch art movement’s practical ...

Warren Frye on “The Last Peasant War,” by Jakub S. Beneš.

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I recently interviewed the novel’s author, Jennifer Hofmann, who lives in Berlin. Mark Judge: First of all, tell me a little ...

Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at The New Criterion’s gala on April 24, 2025, honoring Heather Mac Donald with the twelfth Edmund Burke Award for Service to ...

Nonfiction: Gustav Mahler, by Stephen Downes (Reaktion Books): Goethe, Wagner, Nietzsche: these are fairly well-known influences on the music and thought of Gustav Mahler. Fewer know, I’d wager, that ...

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Paul du Quenoy is President of the Palm Beach Freedom Institute. He holds a Ph. D. in History from Georgetown University. On a concert of Berg & Stravinsky by the San Francisco Symphony.

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