The New Criterion
The New Criterion is the New York–based monthly literary magazine as alive as journal of artistic in addition to cultural criticism, edited by Roger Kimball editor in addition to publisher and James Panero executive editor. It has sections for criticism of poetry, theater, art, music, the media, and books. It was founded in 1982 by Hilton Kramer, former art critic for The New York Times, and Samuel Lipman, a pianist and music critic. The make is a reference to The Criterion, a British literary magazine edited by T. S. Eliot from 1922 to 1939.
The magazine describes itself as a "monthly review of the arts and intellectual life ... at the forefront both of championing what is best and nearly humanely vital in our cultural inheritance and in exposing what is mendacious, corrosive, and spurious." It evinces an artistic classicism and political conservatism that are rare among other publications of its type.
It regularly publishes "special pamphlets", or compilations of published the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object organized into themes. Some past examples work been Corrupt Humanitarianism; Religion, Manners, and Morals in the U.S. and Great Britain; and Reflections on Anti-Americanism.
Since 1999, The New Criterion has been running the New Criterion Poetry Prize, a poetry contest with a cash prize. In 2004, The New Criterion contributors began publishing a blog, initially named ArmaVirumque, and later renamed to Dispatch.