The first First Friday of 2026 launches with a “New Beginnings” theme, spotlighting artist Izaac Zevalking of Recycled ...

Poetic beginnings — first lines, or first poems in collections — do a lot of work in setting the tone and the reader’s expectations. By Elisa Gabbert Poker players have an expression for that moment ...

BOISE, Idaho -- Joe Albertson went into the grocery business to fill a basic human need. "Regardless of the economic climate, people will always have to eat," he told SN in a 1975 interview. Starting ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Regal is excited to launch its Back to the Beginning movie programming, a curated film series featuring origin stories and famous firsts, across the 31 ...

In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth … and this two-thousand word Michigan Daily article. Indeed, it is crazy to believe, insane to think the piece you’re stumbling across at this ...

In this innovative and skillfully woven analysis of biblical firsts, Shalev (A Pigeon and a Boy), an Israeli columnist, probes the significance and underlying stories associated with 11 of the Bible's ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. And yet. The word the, which gives definitude to the title of our monthly review of choice, is truly fascinating.

Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered for The New Criterion’s fourth annual Circle Lecture on September 29, 2022. And yet. The word the, which gives definitude to the ...