The New Criterion
On children’s books about pronouns.
On the houses of Henry Clay Frick.
On the threats to civilization.
On Richard Morris Hunt, Henry Hobson Richardson & Louis Sullivan.
On the new president’s plans.
On fiction, poetry & medicine.
Features
The terrible, horrible, no good, very bad “they”
by Joshua T. Katz
On children’s books about pronouns.
The Fricks at home
by Ian Wardropper
On the houses of Henry Clay Frick.
The depletion of culture
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
On the threats to civilization.
Three Americans in Paris
by Michael J. Lewis
On Richard Morris Hunt, Henry Hobson Richardson & Louis Sullivan.
Week in review
by Suzanna Murawski
On Diego Velázquez, Roman London & art forgery.
A Finn at the piano
by Jay Nordlinger
On a recital by Juho Pohjonen.
Most popular
- The depletion of culture
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- The DOGE team zeroes out the National Endowment for Democracy
by James Piereson
- MAGA agonistes
by Victor Davis Hanson
- The cleanup crew
by the Editors
- The Fricks at home
by Ian Wardropper
Letter from London
The new Shylock
by Dominic Green
On a recent production of The Merchant of Venice.
Theater
Three divas & a damsel
by Kyle Smith
On Gypsy, Death Becomes Her & Hell’s Kitchen.
Art
Two sculptors in Tribeca
by Karen Wilkin
On Robert Taplin & Jilaine Jones.
Good on paper
by James Panero
On “Paper, Color, Line,” at the Wadsworth Atheneum.
Exhibition note
by Sean McGlynn
On “Maurice de Vlaminck: Modern Art Rebel,” at the Museum Barberini.
Music
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On recent musical performances in New York.
Books
Glamour girl
by Simon Heffer
On Clarissa: Muse to Power, by Hugo Vickers.
Modern lighting
by William Anthony Hay
On The Enlightenment: An Idea and Its History, by J. C. D. Clark.
Notes on religion
by John Check
On The Catholic Beethoven, by Nicholas Chong.
Ill met by moonlight
by Anthony Daniels
On Under Cover of Darkness, by Amy Helen Bell.
Music before melancholy
by Robert Steven Mack
On Tchaikovsky’s Empire, by Simon Morrison.
The eagle rebranded
by John P. Rossi
On America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War, by H. W. Brands.
The head & heart of Spain
by Benjamin Riley
On Madrid: A New Biography, by Luke Stegemann.
Notebook
David Lodge, 1935–2025
by D. J. Taylor
On the life & work of David Lodge.