A monthly review of the arts & intellectual life

There at “The New Yorker” by Bruce Bawer On A Century of Fiction in “The New Yorker”: 1925–2025, edited by Deborah Treisman.

The terrible, horrible, no good, very bad “they” by Joshua T. Katz On children’s books about pronouns.

4 days ago · On a Mesopotamian library, Thomas Becket, the Met Cloisters, Rob de Oude & more from the world of culture.

Subscribe to the leading review of the arts & intellectual life. Receive ten issues of the print edition & free digital access on any device. Subscr ...

The New Criterion is published by The Foundation for Cultural Review, a 501 (c) (3) non-profit.

Siena splendor at the Met by Karen Wilkin On “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

The New Criterion, edited by Roger Kimball, was founded in 1982 by the art critic Hilton Kramer and the pianist and music critic Samuel Lipman. A monthly review of the arts and intellectual life, The New Criterion began as an experiment in critical audacity—a publication devoted to engaging, in Matthew Arnold’s famous phrase, with “the …

The hard Frost by Brenda Wineapple On Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry, by Adam Plunkett.

The Editors are pleased to receive submissions for the twenty-fifth New Criterion Poetry Prize, given annually to a book-length manuscript of poems that pay close attention to form. A $25 entry fee is required for each submission. Manuscripts are not to exceed sixty pages in length and should be formatted as a PDF or Word document. Entries must …