The New Criterion
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| 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 6000. 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." [1]
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." [2]
[edit] List of contributors, past and present
See: List of contributors to The New Criterion
[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]
- 2007: J. Allyn Rosser, Judges: David Barber, Roger Kimball, Hilton Kramer, Rachel Hadas, and David Yezzi
- 2006: Bill Coyle, The God of this World to His Prophet
- 2005: Geoffrey Brock: Weighing Light Judges: W. S Di Piero, Roger Kimball, Hilton Kramer, Rachel Wetzsteon and David Yezzi
- 2003: Deborah Warren, Zero Meridian
- 2002: Charles Tomllinson: Skywriting and other poems
- 2001: Adam Kirsch, The Thousand Wells
- 2000: Donald Petersen, Early and Late: Selected poems
