New Criterion

When architecture gets a hall of fame, it needs to find a niche for a certain amiable rogue I will refer to as Palladio of the Wastepaper Basket. He made his mark during the 1960s at Yale's school of architecture. There it is the monthly task of students...

The past few years have seen significant changes in the museum field, with some developments that will mark the field for decades to come. One interesting, and very. effective, development has been the noticeable increase in double-barreled exhibitions:...

Sex, violence, horror, period costume dramas, bucolic idylls, terrifying cataclysms of nature, and grisly recent events. No, that's not, as you might think, a list of current offerings at the movies. Rather, these are subjects that visitors were likely...

There has been a marked change in the British political climate. The Conservative party was heading for disaster--quite possibly irreversible disaster--under a weak leader, Iain Duncan Smith. Now it has replaced him with a strong leader, or a man with...

Is there anti-American sentiment in France? And did I experience it? The simple answers are "yes" and "no," but the questions must be viewed within a broad historical context. The affection between the French and Americans has a long and turbulent...

HAMLET: Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel? POLONIUS: By th' mass and 'tis--like a camel indeed. HAMLET: Methinks it is like a weasel. POLONIUS: It is backed like a weasel. HAMLET: Or like a whale. POLONIUS: Very...

There was a spiritual director, an oracle, in these parts who daily filled a famous column in one of the local newspapers. Once, in days of family piety, it bore the title Aunt Lydia's Post Bag; now it was The Wisdom of the Guru Brahmin, adorned with...