The New Criterion

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The New Criterion

description Literature and culture magazine
language English
publishing company Foundation for Cultural Review
First edition 1982
Frequency of publication per month
Sold edition 6,000 copies
(Self-reported)
Editor-in-chief David Yezzi
editor Hilton Kramer , Roger Kimball
Web link newcriterion.com
ISSN 0734-0222

The New Criterion is an American literary and cultural magazine . It is published in New York and has a monthly print run of around 6,000.

profile

The New Criticon was founded in 1982 by Hilton Kramer , previously an art critic for the New York Times , and music critic Samuel Lipman . Art and culture critic Roger Kimball is now the publisher alongside Kramer . The name of the magazine Name refers to The Criterion , in the 1920s under the leadership of TS Eliot one of the leading little magazines of the English-language modern age .

The profile of the New Criterion is shaped by a politically tinged conservatism , which is also reflected in a rather classic understanding of literature and art. The magazine is often viewed as the culture-critical organ of the American neocons , and indeed there is some overlap in authorship with other neoconservative papers such as Commentary . Co-editor Roger Kimball is also the owner of Encounter Books , which publishes neoconservative authors such as William Kristol , David Horowitz and Theodore Dalrymple , some of whom have also published articles in the New Criterion .

The paper's conservative stylistic ideal is evident, for example, in the statutes of the poetry prize The New Criterion Poetry Prize , which has been awarded annually since 1999 and which demands "strict attention to form" from the manuscripts submitted.

Anthologies

  • Hilton Kramer (Ed.): The New Criterion Reader: The First Five Years . Free Press, New York 1988, ISBN 0-02-917641-7 .
  • Roger Kimball, Hilton Kramer (Eds.): Against the Grain: The New Criterion on Art and Intellect at the End of the 20th Century . Ivan R. Dee, New York 1995, ISBN 1-56663-069-X .
  • Roger Kimball, Hilton Kramer (Ed.): Counterpoints: 25 Years of The New Criterion on Culture and the Arts . Ivan R. Dee, New York 2007, ISBN 978-1-56663-706-0 .

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