Abigail Anthony on Christopher Wheeldon’s Alices Adventures in Wonderland, performed by the Royal Ballet.

“The Birth of Modern Choice: Where life is lived” Daniel T. Rodgers, The Hedgehog Review ...

On modern artisans, autochrome photographs, Caetlynn Booth, “Sylvia” & more from the world of culture.

On Christopher Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale at the Metropolitan Opera House.

La Bayadère opens with a tiger hunt, during which the warrior Solor sends a secret message to his love Nikiya, the temple ...

The Editors of The New Criterion are pleased to announce that David Lehman is the winner of the twenty-fifth New Criterion Poetry Prize. Mr. Lehman will receive $3,000, and his collection Ithaca will ...

I n 1970, the Procurator General of the Discalced Carmelite Order, Finian Monahan, was summoned to the Vatican for a meeting. The subject of the meeting was a promising young American priest by the ...

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 ...

Here is another manifestation of that prior worldview: the Metropolitan Opera’s new staging of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Aida, currently running at the Met (see the May 2025 issue of The New Criterion).

One photograph, however, was taken by a Coast Guard petty officer from the vantage point of a boat on the water, looking up ...

On The Gulag Archipelago at fifty.New to The New Criterion? Become a subscriber to receive ten print issues and gain immediate access to our online archive spanning more than four decades of art and ...