Jay Nordlinger on a podcast with music from hither and yon.
Thomas Mann and the Making of ‘The Magic Mountain,‘” by Morten Høi Jensen.
The Supreme Court heard arguments last week in an election case (Louisiana v. Callais) that will decide how far the federal courts can go in requiring state legislatures to consider race in drawing ...
David Platzer on “The Empire of Sleep,” at the Musée Marmottan-Monet, Paris.
Songs of the heart, etc. This episode is about songs of the heart. There is one from Russia, performed two diffe ...
“Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,” Caliban tells Stephano and Trinculo in The Tempest. As Britain’s public morals and political conduct regress to their sleazy Georgian mean, the ordinary ...
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Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered for The New Criterion’s seventh annual Circle Lecture on September 18, 2025. On November 18, 1956, Nikita Khrushchev, the first ...
On Larry: A New Biography of Lawrence Durrell, 1912–1945, by Michael Haag.