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Rimbaud, the child genius whose self-expression, freedom, accomplishments were suppressed by his antipathetic mother and milieu, was—always was—in search of power. Power was his true objective—a hunger, a lust for power. Only the method of acquiring that power kept changing.
A monthly review of the arts & intellectual life. The Critic’s Notebook by The Editors. On Elizabeth Higgins, John Bradford, Uncle Vanya, Penn Station, Joan of Arc & more from the world of culture.
A review of Real Presences by George Steiner. onsider three exhibits from George Steiner’s latest book, Real Presences. Exhibit A: “The root-phenomenology of the journalistic is, in a sense, metaphysical. It articulates an epistemology and ethics of spurious temporality. Journalistic presentation generates a temporality of equivalent ...
18. Dez. 2019 · In memoriam: John Simon, 1925–2018. James Panero on the legacy of the inimitable John Simon, a superlative critic and longtime contributor to The New Criterion.
On John Ruskin: Selected Prose (21st-Century Oxford Authors), edited by Richard Lansdown. J oh n Ruskin was a Victorian writer in the most literal sense. Born three months before the future queen in 1819, he predeceased her in 1900 by just over a year. 2019 therefore marks a double bicentenary, but there are no prizes for guessing which has ...
29. Nov. 2018 · John Simon & James Panero discuss “Critics & criticism”. John Simon was a distinguished critic and a regular contributor to The New Criterion. A conversation occasioned by Simon’s essay in our November 2018 issue.
There came a point on July 6, 2022, where the prime minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Boris Johnson, led a government of notionally around one hundred people from which fifty-six had resigned. Almost every British prime minister—and we have had them for 301 years, since Robert Walpole—would have gone long before.
