The New Criterion Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Memoirs of Hadrian
Marguerite YourcenarThe New CriterionMarguerite Yourcenar, the first woman elected to the Académie Française and the author of the best-selling novels “Memoirs of Hadrian” and “The Abyss,” sculpted her public persona as deliberately as her prose. https://t.co/ra4YIoAC9H
Paperback, 2005
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Great House
Nicole KraussThe New CriterionOur critic’s pick: Knole: A Private View of One of Britain’s Great Houses, by Robert Sackville-West, with photography by Ashley Hicks (Rizzoli Electa). @Rizzoli_Books https://t.co/opw03PKzN2 https://t.co/UF4brxjzwH
Paperback, 2011
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
London's 'Golden Mile': The Great Houses of the Strand, 1550-1650
Manolo GuerciThe New CriterionOur critic’s pick: “London’s ‘Golden Mile’: The Great Houses of the Strand, 1550–1650,” by Manolo Guerci (Yale University Press). @yalepress https://bit.ly/2ZgZMNL https://t.co/jDPcrBRadV
Hardcover, 2021
$65.00$40.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Ulysses: Second Edition
James JoyceThe New CriterionOur critic's pick: “One Hundred Years of James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses,’” at the Morgan Library & Museum (through October 2, 2022). @MorganLibrary https://t.co/DUz2MhGckH https://t.co/cBV0BVLVOC
Paperback, 2022
$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Course
J. D. ColeThe New CriterionIn ‘American Requiem,’ @rogerkimball connects Thomas Cole’s “The Course of Empire” to America’s own cultural decline. Will Cole’s paintings prove to be allegories or prophecies? The choice is ours. Watch the full series on Fox Nation. https://t.co/kGrXWLdPMc https://t.co/8IGewCRozd
Paperback, 2012
$16.49$8.24 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Venice: The Art of Living
Lydia FasoliThe New CriterionOur critic’s pick: “Venice and the Doges: Six Hundred Years of Architecture, Monuments, and Sculpture,” by Toto Bergamo Rossi (Rizzoli Electa). @Rizzoli_Books @JamesPanero https://t.co/MuLcEnXMq9 https://t.co/mKdytA37f0
Hardcover, 2018
$50.00$25.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton
Andrew PorwancherThe New CriterionOur critic’s pick: “The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton: Walking Tour,” led by Andrew Porwancher, with the 92nd Street Y (August 16). @92ndStreetY https://t.co/sLRBFw9r8L https://t.co/8sSRKq2Gav
Paperback, 2023
$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Mill on the Floss (1860)
George EliotThe New CriterionThere was a time when it was de rigueur for American schoolchildren to read Silas Marner, the Weaver of Raveloe (1861). George Eliot’s brief, jewel-like novel was on the syllabus for generations of students, helping to shape our national moral conscience. https://t.co/2M9Rtv53Pr
Hardcover, 2010
$54.95$29.95 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
The French Revolution: A History
Thomas CarlyleThe New CriterionIf the only book you were able to read on the events of the French Revolution was Thomas Carlyle’s breathtaking, expansive, and, in stylistic terms at least, revolutionary 1837 account of them, you would not be too gravely handicapped. https://t.co/grggrA0Y1K
Paperback, 2023
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Reading Architecture Second Edition: A Visual Lexicon
Owen HopkinsThe New CriterionOur critic’s pick: “Reading Architecture: A Visual Lexicon,” by Owen Hopkins (Laurence King Publishing). @owen_hopkins @LaurenceKingPub https://t.co/qqA9gvOzSn https://t.co/3mHqeujv70
Paperback, 2023
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book