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The Critical Temper

Interventions from The New Criterion at 40
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The Critical Temper is a collection marking the fortieth anniversary of The New Criterion. It features fifty essays from a distinguished array of contributors, offering sharp cultural criticism, engaging historical analysis, and thought-provoking commentary on contemporary life. Edited by Roger Kimball, this anthology presents insightful reflections on the pivotal figures, debates, and issues shaping the 2020s.
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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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781641772174

Publisher: Encounter Books,USA

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 04 November 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Encounter Books,USA

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

  • Edited by Roger Kimball

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 165.0mm

Height: 241.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 600

About the Author

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.

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