The Critical Temper
Interventions from The New Criterion at 40
Will be published approx. on 4. November 2021
Book
Hardback
600 pages
978-1-64177-217-4 (ISBN)
Description
On the occasion of its fortieth anniversary, The New Criterion has brought together a plump chrestomathy of essays demonstrating its range and acuity as America's foremost review of culture and the arts. With contributions by Bruce Bawer, Anthony Daniels, Denis Donoghue, Joseph Epstein, John Steele Gordon, Victor Davis Hanson, Charles Hill, Donald Kagan, Roger Kimball, Heather Mac Donald, Myron Magnet, Andrew C. McCarthy, David Pryce-Jones, Andrew Roberts, Alexander McCall Smith, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Keith Windschuttle, and many others, this collection of fifty essays brings you the best of the best: incisive cultural criticism, scintillating historical analysis, and robust commentary about the way we live now. Edited by Roger Kimball, this spiritual Baedeker is a timely repository of timeless writing about the figures, controversies, and challenges that define our life in the 2020s.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 247 mm
Width: 171 mm
Thickness: 44 mm
Weight
1060 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-64177-217-4 (9781641772174)
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E-Book
09/2021
Encounter Books
€38.99
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Person
Roger Kimball is Editor and Publisher of The New Criterion and President and Publisher of Encounter Books. He writes regular columns at American Greatness, The Spectator USA, and The Epoch Times. His latest books are Who Rules?: Sovereignty, Nationalism, and the Fate of Freedom in the Twenty-First Century and The Fortunes of Permanence: Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia.