Last night Ronald S. Lauder was honored by The New Criterion with the eleventh Edmund Burke Award for Service to Culture and Society at a gala dinner at the Metropolitan Club in New York City.

Sir Simon and the Bavarians began with a novelty—a brainy novelty—by Paul Hindemith: Ragtime (Well-Tempered). The composer penned this in 1921. It is both brainy and joyous—and the orchestra played it ...

On the place for satire in contemporary poetry. Poetry has become so docile, so domesticated, it’s like a spayed housecat lolling in a warm patch of sun. Most poets choose to play it safe, combining a ...

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Still, in “Fidia,” we hear what we can from the ancient world: whispers and echoes from those long distant shores.

Paul Resika, Orange Moon, 2024, Oil on canvas, Bookstein Projects, New York. On view in “Paul Resika: Ode to the Moon.” Paul Resika, Moonlight, 1943-44, Oil on canvas, Bookstein Projects, New York. On ...

My wrongness was clear from the opening notes—those of Schumann’s “Abends am Strand.” Kissin was very songful. He sculpted ...

Lord Byron’s last words, according to one legend, were as follows: “Come, come, no weakness! Let’s be a man to the last. Now, I shall go to sleep.” But according to the poet’s official eulogist, ...

Many of the pieces on display in “A Taste for the Renaissance” are very small—bringing a magnifying glass is a good idea. One ...