The Critical Temper
Author | : Roger Kimball |
Publisher | : Encounter Books |
Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 2021-09-21 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781641772181 |
ISBN-13 | : 1641772182 |
Rating | : 4/5 (182 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Critical Temper written by Roger Kimball and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.