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The name is a reference to ''The Criterion'', a British literary magazine edited by [[T. S. Eliot]] from 1922 to 1939. |
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Revision as of 21:30, 24 May 2008
| The New Criterion | |
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| Editors & Publishers |
Hilton Kramer, Roger Kimball |
| Executive Editor |
David Yezzi |
| Managing Editor |
James Panero |
| Categories | Literary Magazine |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Founded | 1982 |
| Publisher | Foundation for Cultural Review |
| Country | United States |
| Website | www.newcriterion.com |
| Circulation | 6000 |
| ISSN | 0734-0222 |
The New Criterion is a New York-based literary magazine and journal of artistic and cultural criticism. Founded in 1982 by Hilton Kramer and Samuel Lipman, The New Criterion is published monthly. It is edited by Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball, and has a circulation of around 6,500. It has sections for criticism of poetry, theater, art, music, the media, and books.
The magazine is known for an artistic classicism and political conservatism that is rare among other publications of its type. It describes itself as "America’s foremost voice of critical dissent in culture and the arts," "a staunch defender of the values of high culture," and "an articulate scourge of artistic mediocrity and intellectual mendacity wherever they are found: in the universities, the art galleries, the media, the concert halls, the theater, and elsewhere." [2]
It regularly publishes "special pamphlets," or compilations of published material organized into themes. Some past examples have been Corrupt Humanitarianism; Religion, Manners and Morals in the U.S. and Great Britain; and Reflections on Anti-Americanism.
TNC has been running The New Criterion Poetry Prize, a poetry contest with a cash prize, since 1999. In 2004, New Criterion contributors began publishing a blog, known as ArmaVirumque.
Origin
The New Criterion was founded in 1982 by The New York Times art critic Hilton Kramer. He cited his reasons for leaving the paper to start TNC as "the disgusting and deleterious doctrines with which the most popular of our Reviews disgraces its pages," as well as "the dishonesties and hypocrisies and disfiguring ideologies that nowadays afflict the criticism of the arts, [which] are deeply rooted in both our commercial and our academic culture [...]"
"It is therefore all the more urgent," he went on to say, "that a dissenting critical voice be heard, and it is for the purpose of providing such a voice that The New Criterion has been created." [3]
The name is a reference to The Criterion, a British literary magazine edited by T. S. Eliot from 1922 to 1939.
New Criterion Anthologies
- Counterpoints: 25 Years of The New Criterion on Culture and the Arts, edited by Roger Kimball and Hilton Kramer; Ivan R. Dee, 512 pages, (2007). ISBN-10: 1566637066 ISBN-13: 978-1566637060
- Against the Grain: The New Criterion on Art and Intellect at the End of the 20th Century, edited by Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball; Ivan R. Dee, 477 pages (1995). ISBN-10: 156663069X ISBN-13: 978-1566630696
- The New Criterion Reader: The First Five Years, edited by Hilton Kramer; Free Press, 429 pages (1988). ISBN-10: 0029176417 ISBN-13: 978-0029176412
New Criterion Books
- Lengthened Shadows: America and Its Institutions in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Roger Kimball and Hilton Kramer; Encounter Books, 266 pages (2004). ISBN-10: 1594030545 ISBN-13: 978-1594030543
- The Survival of Culture: Permanent Values in a Virtual Age, edited by Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball; Ivan R. Dee, 256 pages (2002). ISBN-10: 1566634660, ISBN-13: 978-1566634663
- The Betrayal of Liberalism: How the Disciples of Freedom and Equality Helped Foster the Illiberal Politics of Coercion and Control edited by Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball; Ivan R. Dee, 256 pages (1999). ISBN-10: 1566632579, ISBN-13: 978-1566632577
- The Future of the European Past edited by Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball; Ivan R. Dee, 251 pages (1997). ISBN-10: 1566631785, ISBN-13: 978-1566631785
The New Criterion Poetry Prize
Since 2000 the magazine has been awarding its poetry prize to a poet for "a book-length manuscript of poems that pay close attention to form".[1]
Winners
These poets have won the prize:[1]
- 2007: J. Allyn Rosser, Foiled Again, Judges: David Barber, Roger Kimball, Hilton Kramer, Rachel Hadas and David Yezzi
- 2006: Bill Coyle, The God of this World to His Prophet
- 2005: Geoffrey Brock: Weighing Light Judges: W. S. Di Piero, Roger Kimball, Hilton Kramer, Rachel Wetzsteon and David Yezzi
- 2003: Deborah Warren, Zero Meridian
- 2002: Charles Tomlinson: Skywriting and other poems
- 2001: Adam Kirsch, The Thousand Wells
- 2000: Donald Petersen*, Early and Late: Selected poems
- (There is no linking article about this Donald Petersen, the previously liked article was to an incorrect person.)
References
- ^ a b [1]David Yezzi's post at the Armavirumque blog, "the New Criterion Poetry Prize", posted 11 a.m., January 29, 2007, accessed February 1, 2007
External links
Website
Blog
Articles
Interviews
- Roger Kimball Interviewed by Bernard Chapin
- Roger Kimball Interviewed by Jamie Glazov
- An interview with Roger Kimball on The Marketplace of Ideas
In the press
- John J. Miller on The New Criterion in National Review
- Gary Shapiro in The New York Sun
- Scott Johnson on Powerline
- David Oshinsky in The New York Times
- Anthony Julius in The New York Times