On “Medieval Bologna: Art for a University City” at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville.

Suzanna Murawski on “Ravelstein,” Marsden Hartley & a new canvas adhesive.

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 ...

Hilton Kramer (1928–2012) was the founding editor of The New Criterion, which he started with the late Samuel Lipman in 1982. From 1987 until 2006, he was also the art critic for the weekly New York ...

On maps of Britain, William Bailey, Mahler at Carnegie Hall, Winston Churchill & more from the world of culture.

On Sondra Kathryn Wilson’s Readers.

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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On harmful language at the ACLU.

On a concert by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.