In a year of much discussion of the Man of Twists and Turns, it was fitting that the Orchestra of the Greek National Opera ...
She pointed out that recent decisions by the Court have set off a new wave of partisan gerrymandering by both political ...
The book begins with Rowe’s visit to a fête, which revives happy memories of his youth. He stops by gift booths, plays ...
A look back at some of Baroness Orczy’s mystery novels and the vibrant characters within.
The performance was dull. “Insuperably dull,” to borrow a phrase from William F. Buckley Jr. (who was describing a book).
The man is inarticulate.” Writing to his future wife Katharine in 1906 while in Cairo (a place he cared for no more than he ...
When did World War I begin? In his new book The Blood-Dimmed Tide: Central Europe’s Long Great War, 1905–1921, Jesse Kauffman, a history professor at Eastern Michigan University, provides a novel ...
The Czech novelist Milan Kundera was in his late thirties when he published his first novel, The Joke, in Prague in 1967. The book traces the fortunes and amours of a young student, Ludvik, after his ...
Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered for The New Criterion’s eighth annual Circle Lecture on September 24, 2026. I’m afraid there’s a price to pay for asking a ...