Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. But that sober reflection tells only half the story. Below, readers will find a memorial by our Poetry Editor, ...

There is a remarkable event going on in the world of journalism. In the Jan. 14 issue of the New York Review of Books, the scholar and political essayist Tony Judt announced that he was dying. The ...

One year, back when I was knee-high to a grasshopper, I got a pair of white hamsters for my birthday. My hamsters and I got along famously—until the accident. I’ve repressed the details; now it has ...

Here at the Reader, the sad death of Ingmar Bergman hasn’t gone unnoticed: RC I loved her in Casablanca. MM You’re thinking of Ingmar Johansson, Scarlett’s mom. TF No, that’s Tracy Ullman. TP No no, ...