The New Criterion

The New Criterion is an American literary and cultural magazine. It is published in New York and is published monthly with a circulation of 6,000 copies.

Profile

It was founded in 1982 by Hilton Kramer, art critic before the New York Times, and the music critic Samuel Lipman. As editor operates today alongside Kramer of art and cultural critic Roger Kimball. The name of the journal name refers to The Criterion, in the 1920s under the leadership of TS Eliot, one of the leading magazines of the little English modernism.

The profile of the New Criterion is characterized by a politically colored conservatism, which is also reflected in a rather classical literature and art appreciation. Often, the magazine is considered a critical organ culture of the American neocons, and indeed there are in the authorship of some overlap with other neo-conservative magazines such as Commentary. Koherausgeber Roger Kimball is also the owner of the publishing house Encounter Books, be laid in the neo-conservative authors such as William Kristol, David Horowitz and Theodore Dalrymple, who partly also published essays in the New Criterion.

The conservative ideal of style sheet is located approximately in the statutes of the poetry prize The New Criterion Poetry Prize, which is awarded annually since 1999 and demands " strict observance of the form" of the submitted manuscripts.

Anthologies

• Hilton Kramer ( ed.), The New Criterion Reader: The First Five Years. Free Press, New York 1988. ISBN 0-02917641-7, EAN 978-0-02917641-2
• Roger Kimball, Hilton Kramer ( ed.): Against the Grain: The New Criterion on Art and Intellect at the End of the 20th Century. Ivan R. Dee, New York 1995. ISBN 1-56663069 -X / EAN 978-1566630696
• Roger Kimball, Hilton Kramer ( ed.): Counterpoints: 25 Years of The New Criterion on Culture and the Arts. Ivan R. Dee, New York, 2007. ISBN 1566637066 / EAN 978-1566637060