A cornucopia of brilliant criticism from
the pages of
The New Criterion
Against the Grain
The New Criterion
on Art and Intellect at the
End of the Twentieth Century
edited by Hilton Kramer
and Roger IGmball
"As
a critical periodical
The New Criterion
is
probably more consistently worth reading
than any other magazine in English."-Julian
Symons,
Times Literary Supplement
Against the Grain
brings together more than
forty incisive essays from the magazine that
has emerged as the foremost voice of critical
dissent in the culture wars. The writings
challenge radical orthodoxies on a wide
range of controversial subjects, from the
philosophy ofMichel Foucault to the apoca–
lyptic kitsch ofAnselm Kiefer, from the
scandals of political correctness and multicul–
turalism to the state of Latin American litera-
ture and politics. Samuel Lipman writes on the future of classical music, Hilton
Kramer on the plight of today's art museum, Joseph Epstein on the poet
C.
P.
Cavafy, and Roger Kimball on the treason of the intellectuals.
The book includes pieces by Guy Davenport on Gertrude Stein, John Simon on
Vladimir Nabokov, Donald Lyons on
Angels in America,
Richard Vine on Jean
Baudrillard, Maurice Cowling on Raymond Williams, and H. J. Kaplan on Jean
Genet. There are thoughtful reevaluations of such important cultural figures as
T. E. Lawrence, Henry James, Harold Laski, A. E. Housman, Willem de Kooning,
Frederick Douglass, and Philip
Larkin.
And much more.
Written with wit, clarity, and fierce independence,
Against the Grain
is a major
contribution to sanity and common sense on the most contentious cultural issues
of the day.
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