Fifteen Years Ago Hilton KraITler Founded
One of the Most Influential Periodicals in AIl1erica*
Today, He's Offering You a Chance to Read It
-- FREE!
Are you interested in a broad range
of creative endeavor, from literature,
painting, music, and architecture to
theater, dance, and performance art?
Would you welcome spirited argu–
ment that engages cultural trendiness
with uncompromising intellectual
honesty and independence?
wJl you accept a free copy of a jour–
nal that is literate, thought-provoking,
and immensely fun to read?
If "YES" is your answer, we are
pleased to introduce you to
The New
Criterion.
For
15
years
71,e New
Cn'lerion's
commitment to the highest
critical standards has been an eloquent
antidote to the political orthodoxy
dominating our cultural life. Month
after month, it serves up honest
commentary and criticism on theater,
the visual arts, literature, music,
poetry, dance, and other points of
cultural interest.
Bold, Articulate, Outspoken
It all began when Hilton Kramer
dared to "disturb the universe" of
contemporary arts and letters. After
leaving his long-held position as
New
York Times
chief art critic, Kramer
started a literary-intellectual journal
for the rest of us -- people who love
literature and the arts but refuse
La
fo~l~w t~e lea~
of a single-minded
cnhcal elIte.
Today's
New Criterion
is no less com–
mitted to independence: in its critical
judgments, in its expression of opin–
ions and ideas, in its refusal to give
ground to today's arbiters of artistic
•Asurvey of academics. writers. and editors pubtished
by
Princeton University Press cited The New Criterion
as one of the Top 10 most influential periodicals among
American intellectuals.
and literary tastes . Others have taken
notice:
"Not since H.L. Mencken and
The
American Mercury
has literary
America seen so much fur fly,"
says
The Boston Review
"... the best art magazine and a
provocative force in other cultural
areas," says
The Wan Street Journal
"...stimulates, elucidates, and infu–
riates," says
The New Art Examiner
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