ABOUT THE NEW CRITERION
On the front lines of the battle for culture.
The New Criterion, edited by Roger Kimball, was founded in 1982 by the art critic Hilton Kramer and the pianist and music critic Samuel Lipman. A monthly review of the arts and intellectual life, The New Criterion began as an experiment in critical audacity—a publication devoted to engaging, in Matthew Arnold’s famous phrase, with “the best that has been thought and said.”
This also meant engaging with those forces dedicated to traducing genuine cultural and intellectual achievement, whether through obfuscation, politicization, or a commitment to nihilistic absurdity. We are proud that The New Criterion has been at the forefront both of championing what is best and most humanely vital in our cultural inheritance and of exposing what is mendacious, corrosive, and spurious.
Published monthly from September through June, The New Criterion brings together a wide range of young and established critics whose common aim is to bring you the most incisive criticism being written today.
“As a critical periodical, The New Criterion is probably more consistently worth reading than any other magazine in English.”
– Julian Symons
the Times Literary Supplement
EDITORIAL STAFF
Roger Kimball
Editor & Publisher
Roger Kimball is Editor and Publisher of The New Criterion and President and Publisher of Encounter Books. He writes regular columns for American Greatness, The Epoch Times, and The Spectator (World Edition). Mr. Kimball lectures widely and has appeared on national radio and television programs as well as the BBC. He is represented by Writers’ Representatives, who can provide details about booking him.
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James Panero
Executive Editor
James Panero is Executive Editor of The New Criterion. He writes on art and culture monthly for The New Criterion and serves as the magazine’s gallery critic. artinfo has called him a “preeminent voice of American cultural conservatism.”
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Benjamin Riley
Managing Editor
Benjamin Riley is Managing Editor of The New Criterion. He received his MA from Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, and was the Hilton Kramer Fellow in Criticism at The New Criterion. He graduated from Dartmouth College, where he served as President and Publisher of The Dartmouth Review, for which he now serves as chairman of the board of trustees. His new book, The Bridges of Robert Adam: A Fanciful and Picturesque Tour, is available from Triglyph Books.
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Robert Erickson
Senior Editor
Robert S. Erickson is a Senior Editor at The New Criterion. After serving as the magazine’s Hilton Kramer Fellow in 2019–20, he completed a post-baccalaureate year in Classics at Columbia University. He holds a BA in Classics and the Program in Literary Studies from Middlebury College.
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Isaac Sligh
Senior Editor
Isaac Sligh is a Senior Editor at The New Criterion. After working as the head curator of the Ralston Listening Library and Archive in Sewanee, Tennessee, one of the nation’s largest collections of recorded classical music, Isaac joined the magazine in 2020 as its eighth Hilton Kramer Fellow. His writing has appeared in a number of venues, including The Wall Street Journal, The Spectator (World Edition), The Critic, and Literary Review.
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Christopher J. Scalia
Poetry Editor
Christopher J. Scalia is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he writes about literature, the arts, and higher education. His essays and reviews have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Times Literary Supplement, Commentary, The Washington Post, First Things, and elsewhere. He is the author of 13 Novels Conservatives Will Love (But Probably Haven’t Read) and the host of the arts and culture podcast The Back of the Book.
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Victor Davis Hanson
Visiting Critic
Victor Davis Hanson is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author of The Dying Citizen (Basic Books). He is the 2018 recipient of the Edmund Burke Award.
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Andrew Roberts
Visiting Critic
Andrew Roberts , Baron Roberts of Belgravia, is an English historian, journalist, and member of the House of Lords. He is the Roger and Martha Mertz Visiting Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a Lehrman Institute Distinguished Lecturer at the New-York Historical Society. His bestselling books include Napoleon: A Life; Churchill: Walking with Destiny; and The Storm of War. He has won the Wolfson History Prize, the International Churchill Society Book Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, among others, and his writing has appeared in outlets such as The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, The Wall Street Journal, TIME, and The New Criterion.
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Anatoly Grablevsky
Hilton Kramer Fellow
Anatoly Grablevsky is the current Hilton Kramer Fellow at The New Criterion. A recipient of BA and MPhil degrees in Classics from Queens’ College, Cambridge, Anatoly was a Mary Jaharis Intern in Greek and Roman Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He comes to The New Criterion after working as an adjunct professor of Art History at Adelphi University and the Pratt Institute.
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Leigh Harrington
Visiting Fellow
Leigh Harrington has been an accomplished communications executive in the nonprofit sector for over two decades. From New York to Washington, D.C., she has played pivotal roles at some of the nation’s most influential policy organizations, including the Cato Institute, the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and the Manhattan Institute in New York. Currently, Leigh brings her wealth of knowledge and expertise to The New Criterion as a Visiting Fellow, where she plays a key role in supporting the magazine’s development efforts. Her experience and connections are invaluable in driving the magazine’s mission to promote critical cultural and intellectual conversations. Leigh resides in Harrison, New York, with her husband Mike and their two children, Mikey and Olivia.
FOUNDERS
Hilton Kramer
Founding Editor & Publisher
Hilton Kramer (1928–2012) was the founding editor of The New Criterion, which he started with the late Samuel Lipman in 1982. From 1987 until 2006, he was also the art critic for the weekly New York Observer, and for many years wrote the “Critic’s Notebook” column in Art & Antiques magazine. His “Media Watch” column was published weekly in The New York Post from 1993 to November 1997.
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Samuel Lipman
Publisher 1982–1994
Samuel Lipman (1934–1994) was the founding publisher of The New Criterion, which he started with the late Hilton Kramer in 1982. A distinguished concert pianist, Lipman wrote music criticism for Commentary and served on the National Council on the Arts.
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OFFICE STAFF
Caetlynn Booth
Office Manager
Jayne Allison
Assistant to the Editors
ENDORSEMENTS
“America’s leading review of the arts and intellectual life.”
– The Daily Telegraph of London
“A review of the arts and intellectual life, the iconic monthly is as smart as it is bold. Each issue is chock-full of wise observations about culture and politics, pinpoint attacks on political correctness, and long-form examinations of things that matter.”
– Michael Goodwin, New York Post
“More consistently worth reading than any other magazine in English.”
– The Times Literary Supplement
“Indeed, nearly all the magazine’s reviewing— of books, art, and music—is first-rate. The poetry featured is comparably exceptional with a strong preference for formal verse (which is just fine by me).”
– Michael Dirda
“A refuge for a civilizing element in short supply in contemporary America: honest criticism.”
– The Wall Street Journal
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The New Criterion is published by The Foundation for Cultural Review, 900 Broadway, New York, NY 10003, a nonprofit public foundation as described in Section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code, EIN 13-3108424, which solicits and accepts contributions from a wide range of sources, including public and private foundations, corporations, and the general public. Contributions to The New Criterion are tax-deductible according to the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code. All gifts in excess of $75 will be acknowledged with a written disclosure statement describing the “quid pro quo” deductibility under section 6115 of the Internal Revenue Code.
