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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at The New Criterion’s gala on April 22, 2026, honoring Harvey Mansfield with the thirteenth Edmund Burke Award for Service to ...
On the short stories & plays of Sławomir Mrożek. I had never heard of Sławomir Mrożek (1930–2013) before I went to a flea market in Paris, where I found a book of his plays for sale for one euro.
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.
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 ...
Charles Sligh on “Larry: A New Biography of Lawrence Durrell, 1912–1945,” by Michael Haag.
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