The New Criterion Feb 2026

$10.95

Inside:

More than doctrinaire by Steven McGregor

Loving Malcolm Cowley by Bruce Bawer

Robert A. M. Stern, 1939-2025 by Peter Pennoyer The Peruvian uncertainty principle by James Como New poems by Benjamin S. Grossberg & Patrick Walsh


Theater by Kyle Smith


Art by Karen Wilkin, James Panero, Nicholas Shrimpton, Mario Naves, Anatoly Grablevsky & Luke Lyman


Music by Jay Nordlinger


The media by James Bowman


Books: Stephen Greenblatt Dark renaissance reviewed by Paul Dean


Michael Symmons Roberts Quartet for the end of time reviewed by Oliver Soden


Plestia Alagad The eyes of Gaza reviewed by Anthony Daniels


Karl Bell The perilous deep reviewed by Kelly Scott

Franklin


David Shambaugh Breaking the engagement reviewed by Gordon G. Chang


& so much more!!