To find Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) and Auguste Rodin (1840–1917), two of the greatest sculptors in the history of art, in one exhibition at the Louvre is bound to be an experience. The ...

Anatoly Grablevsky is the thirteenth and current Hilton Kramer Fellow at The New Criterion.

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On September 30, a federal district court judge in Boston upheld Harvard’s use of racial preferences in undergraduate admissions against the challenge that they discriminate against Asian-Americans.

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Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Despite all that, Zamyatin was lucky. Other writers who (to quote from the same letter) earned a “criminal name” ...

But Agatha Christie wrote many books, and to conduct a study such as the publisher proposed would require not just a casual, ...