Anatoly Grablevsky on “Monet and Venice,” at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Trilling belonged to perhaps the last generation of academics who believed that they had something of general ...

In his “Petition to be buried on the beach at Sète,” Georges Brassens, another native of that windy little port town south of Montpellier, asks the “good master” Paul Valéry to pardon his proposal for ...

On the pleasures of fellowship at the margins of literary life.

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Democrats won recent elections in New York City, New Jersey, and Virginia by calling attention to the “affordability crisis”—the claim that prices are too high and stretching the budgets of most ...

It is a great irony that at a time when Facebook and Twitter are closing accounts of conservatives for allegedly promoting “hate,” and conservative speakers are banned from college campuses for (as it ...

Last night, two major-league pianists formed a duo in a recital at Carnegie Hall. They are Yuja Wang, the Chinese-born American, and Víkingur Ólafsson, the Icelander. In the past, there have been full ...

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On Richard Wagner’s Götterdämmerung at the Bayreuth Festival. In this production the work’s foundational crime, originally the Nibelung dwarf Alberich’s theft of the magic Rhine treasure that he can ...

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I’ll admit it. Until a couple of weeks ago, I had never heard of the garden designer Mien Ruys (1904–99). I was not entirely to blame for my ignorance; next to nothing had been written in English on ...