The New Criterion

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The New Criterion
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.

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[edit] 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.


[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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]

[edit] Winners

These poets have won the prize:[1]


  • (There is no linking article about this Donald Petersen, the previously liked article was to an incorrect person.)

[edit] References

  1. ^ 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

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