The New Criterion (original) (raw)

On October 7 & Hannah Arendt’s “banality of evil.”

On The Letters of Emily Dickinson, edited by Cristanne Miller and Domhnall Mitchell.

On the completed revisions to Nikolaus Pevsner’s Buildings of England series.

On the fiftieth anniversary of the Robert Moses biography.

On the trouble with democracy in America.

On what we can learn from the Athenian experiment.

Features

The profundity of evil

by Douglas Murray

On October 7 & Hannah Arendt’s “banality of evil.”

Emily Dickinson at the post office

by William Logan

On The Letters of Emily Dickinson_, edited by Cristanne Miller and Domhnall Mitchell._

Pevsner revised

by Simon Heffer

On the completed revisions to Nikolaus Pevsner’s Buildings of England series.

“The Power Broker” in perspective

by Myron Magnet

On the fiftieth anniversary of the Robert Moses biography.

Statistical questions about the Iowa poll

by James Piereson

On the poll’s sixteen-point mistake.

The Critic’s Notebook

by the Editors

On The Owl and the Nightingale_, the Berliner Philharmoniker, Louis Langrée, Rosario Candela, the Isaac Bell House & more from the world of culture._

Reconsiderations

A lion in Zion

by James Panero

On “All About Herzl: The Exhibition” at the Temple Emanu-El Bernard Museum of Judaica, New York.

Theater

Misshapen identities

by Kyle Smith

On McNeal_,_ The Roommate & Yellow Face_._

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Art

Shapeshifting Stella

by Karen Wilkin

On “Homage to Frank Stella” at Mnuchin Gallery, New York.

Music

New York chronicle

by Jay Nordlinger

On recent performances at the New York Philharmonic & the Metropolitan Opera.

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Fiction chronicle

by Andrew Stuttaford

On fiction by Johan Harstad, Alexander Lernet-Holenia, Caroline Blackwood & Michel Houellebecq.

Books

The sun also sets

by Paul Dean

On a new Library of America volume of Ernest Hemingway’s writings.

Saxon semi-successes

by Jeremy Black

On Augustus the Strong: A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco by Tim Blanning.

Strong convictions

by Anthony Daniels

On Behind Bars: Letters from History’s Most Famous Prisoners_, edited by James Drake & Edward Smyth._

Merci pour Magna Carta

by Sean McGlynn

On Arise, England by Caroline Burt & Richard Partington & House of Lilies by Justine Firnhaber-Baker.

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