Roger Kimball and Hilton Kramer select the very best cultural criticism from the first 25 years of America's premier literary magazine. The many contributors include Brooke Allen, Stefan Beck, James Bowman, Theodore Dalrymple, Guy Davenport, John Derbyshire, Ben Downing, Paul Dean, Daniel Mark Epstein, Joseph Epstein, John Gross, Laura Jacobs, ...
In this incisive collection of essays which appeared originally in "The New Criterion", ten distinguished critics and observers examine the origins and prospects of liberalism, from its roots in thinkers such as Rousseau and Mill to its troubled legacy in twentieth-century pursuits, and its compromising effects in the moral and intellectual life ...
A collection of essays, assembled from 25 years of his work, in which the neoconservative critic and editor takes on members of the Left. Kramer criticizes statements of and positions taken by Mary McCarthy, Lillian Hellman, George Steiner, and others, and he shows the role they played in major political and intellectual battles over several ...
This book offers a series of penetrating reflections on the state of American culture and its prospects, from military to higher education, from religion and law to music and visual arts.
More than 40 essays from "The New Criterion". Includes as Samuel Lipman on the future of classical music, Hilton Kramer on the state of today's art musuems, Joseph Epstein on the poet C.F. Cavafy, John Simon on Vladimir Nabokov, and Donald Lyons on "Angels in America".
The great authority and historical undergirding of Hilton Kramer's art criticism are on abundant display in this first collection of his pieces to appear in twenty years. The essays and reviews in The Triumph of Modernism constitute a fever chart of the contemporary art scene, diagnosing the state of modernism and its vital legacy in the ...
Ten distinguished critics reflect on the direction of our society, emphasizing both the dangers that threaten our institutions and the vivifying survivals that are worthy of being cherished and nurtured. Contributors include Robert H Bork, Anthony Daniels, Roger Kimball, Hilton Kramer, Kenneth Minogue, Eric Ormsby, David Pryce-Jones, Diana Schaub, ...
Ten distinguished critics reflect on the direction of our society, emphasizing both the dangers that threaten our institutions and the vivifying survivals that are worthy of being cherished and nurtured. Contributors include Robert H Bork, Anthony Daniels, Roger Kimball, Hilton Kramer, Kenneth Minogue, Eric Ormsby, David Pryce-Jones, Diana Schaub, ...
A collection of essays, originally published in the "New Criterion", examining current trends within the academy that seek to belittle the European roots of Western culture and history.
Drawn from twenty-five years of the magazine, this abundant collection contains a generous sampling of the very best writing from The New Criterion, featuring the judgments of our generation's most astute and entertaining observers.
Hilton Kramer, well known as perhaps the most perceptive, courageous, and influential art critic in America, is also the founder and co-editor (with Roger Kimball) of "The New Criterion". This comprehensive book collects a sizable selection of his early essays and reviews published in "Artforum", "Commentary", "Arts Magazine", "The New York Review ...
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