Suzanna Murawski on A. C. Benson, public art & Egyptian blue.

Palm Beach slows down after Easter, with traffic notably easing up through the month of May as the largely seasonal community ...

De Kooning was born in Rotterdam in 1904. As a youth he studied for eight years at a conservative academy of art, where the ...

It is critical to remember that the gentleman’s bequest was not simply an investment or display of wealth. It represented a ...

I recently interviewed the novel’s author, Jennifer Hofmann, who lives in Berlin. Mark Judge: First of all, tell me a little ...

Warren Frye on “The Last Peasant War,” by Jakub S. Beneš.

The New Criterion. A distinguished concert pianist, Lipman wrote music criticism for Commentary and served on the National ...

When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation appeared in 1973, its impact, the author recalled, was immediate: “Like matter enveloped by antimatter, it ...

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

Every culture has a literature that is to some extent subterranean. Much of it deserves to stay there. But certain pieces occasionally bubble to the surface. Invariably this happens because the work ...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s three-volume opus, The Gulag Archipelago, which some have called the most important masterpiece of the twentieth century, is subtitled: “An Experiment in Literary ...

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 ...