Raymond Asquith (1878–1916)—the son of the British prime minister H. H. Asquith, a wit, scholar, barrister, and, at the end of his life, soldier—was the stuff of legend. In the years before 1914, he ...
When did World War I begin? In his new book The Blood-Dimmed Tide: Central Europe’s Long Great War, 1905–1921, Jesse Kauffman, a history professor at Eastern Michigan University, provides a novel ...
The concert at David Geffen Hall on Saturday night was a promising one—more than promising, a lock-cinch guarantee. Three top-flight musicians gathered to play a program of piano trios. Those ...
On high culture, Ronnie Landfield, Rembrandt, urban architecture & more from the world of culture. Ronnie Landfield, Across the Wall, 2016, Acrylic on canvas, Findlay Galleries. “Ronnie Landfield: ...
From about 1920 to about 1950, Harold Laski was one of the best-known academic intellectuals in the English-speaking world. After Oxford and after two relatively obscure years at McGill University in ...
Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. I daresay most of us have been through such a stage in life, and much may be forgiven the author because of her ...
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