Suzanna Murawski on “Ravelstein,” Marsden Hartley & a new canvas adhesive.

Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at The New Criterion’s gala on April 24, 2025, honoring Heather Mac Donald with the twelfth Edmund Burke Award for Service to ...

Nonfiction: Gustav Mahler, by Stephen Downes (Reaktion Books): Goethe, Wagner, Nietzsche: these are fairly well-known influences on the music and thought of Gustav Mahler. Fewer know, I’d wager, that ...

On maps of Britain, William Bailey, Mahler at Carnegie Hall, Winston Churchill & more from the world of culture.

For example, the latest Michelin Guide considers the best two restaurants in Washington, D.C., to be minibar and Jônt, ...

In his Lives of the Artists, Vasari credits Giotto as having no less than the status of nature itself: deserving to be imitated by painters everywhere. Giotto’s revolutionary fresco cycle in the ...

On Edgar Allan Poe, the German Peasants’ War & José María Velasco.

On leaving Cambridge for Ralston College.

So, yes: Buckley was the founding father of modern conservatism, the man who legitimized conservatism as an intellectual ...

To say that Keith Windschuttle was one of the most controversial figures in Australian intellectual life would be a gross understatement. Across a range of issues, he created a great deal of trouble ...