The other program, the subject of this review, appealed to more advanced balletomanes—works by Gianna Reisen, Ulysses Dove, ...

(1974), the Supreme Court further broadened the group who could be maligned by the media to include “limited-purpose public ...

Jay Nordlinger on a performance of “Carmina Burana” at the Teatro Massimo.

T he elder apostles of George Balanchine often gripe that his ballets, especially when staged by smaller companies, fall ...

At least, that is, until now, with the advent of the Pascal Institute, in the Netherlands, with which St. John’s has formed a ...

David Platzer on the life of Lady Diana Cooper.

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. These novels can, then, be shrill, and many a character overdetermined; what’s good about them, however, is that ...

When Matthew Arnold (1822–88) is mentioned in college lectures on the history of “culture” today, it is usually accompanied by a rolling of the professor’s eyes. The students, obligingly, respond with ...

Keats had come with his friend Severn for the mild Roman winter. Afternoons they walked to the Borghese Gardens to see fine ladies, nannies with babies, and the dapper mounted officers whose horses ...

A review of Vineland by Thomas Pynchon. nless you want to count Slow Learner, a collection of his juvenilia that appeared a couple of years back, Thomas Pynchon’s new novel, Vineland, marks the first ...

Though the official day of the United States’ semiquincentennial has come and gone, there are still Revolutionary War achievements to be remembered. In The Spectator World, Patrick Allitt memorializes ...