Roger Kimball

Editor & Publisher

Roger Kimball is Editor and Publisher of The New Criterion and President and Publisher of Encounter Books. He writes regular columns for American Greatness, The Epoch Times, and The Spectator, US edition. Mr. Kimball lectures widely and has appeared on national radio and television programs as well as the BBC. He is represented by Writers’ Representatives, who can provide details about booking him.

James Panero

Executive Editor

James Panero is Executive Editor of The New Criterion. He writes on art and culture monthly for The New Criterion and serves as the magazine’s gallery critic. ARTINFO has called him a “preeminent voice of American cultural conservatism.”

Ben Riley

Managing Editor

Benjamin Riley is Managing Editor of The New Criterion. He received his MA from The Courtauld Institute of Art and was the Hilton Kramer Fellow in Criticism at The New Criterion. He graduated from Dartmouth College, where he served as President and Publisher of The Dartmouth Review. His undergraduate and graduate theses both examined the work of the Scottish architect Robert Adam (1728–1792).

Robert S. Erickson

Associate Editor

Robert S. Erickson is Associate Editor at The New Criterion. After serving as the magazine’s Hilton Kramer Fellow in 2019–20, he completed a post-baccalaureate year in Classics at Columbia University. He holds a BA in Classics and the Program in Literary Studies from Middlebury College.

Isaac Sligh

Associate Editor

Isaac Sligh is Associate Editor at The New Criterion. He was the magazine’s eighth Hilton Kramer Fellow. He studied English literature at Sewanee: The University of the South and served as the head curator of the Ralston Listening Library and Archive in Sewanee, TN, one of the nation’s largest collections of recorded classical music.

Jane Coombs

Hilton Kramer Fellow

Jane Coombs is the current Hilton Kramer Fellow at The New Criterion. She studied medieval history and literature at the University of Cambridge and earned an MA from the Courtauld Institute of Art, focusing on nineteenth-century British art. After returning home to Canada, she participated in the Emerging Arts Critics program in Toronto and contributed to a number of arts magazines.

Adam Kirsch

Poetry Editor

Adam Kirsch, a poet, critic, and an editor of The Wall Street Journal’s weekend Review section, is a regular contributor to The Atlantic and The New Yorker, as well as the author of ten books, including The People and the Books: 18 Classics of Jewish Literature (W. W. Norton, 2016), Why Trilling Matters (Yale, 2011), and, most recently, Who Wants to Be a Jewish Writer?: Essays (Yale, 2019). He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2016 and a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University from 2004–05. In 2013 he served as a judge for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and he was a 2007 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s Nona Balakian Prize for Book Reviewing. He has taught literature and writing at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College. The first of his three collections of poetry, The Thousand Wells: Poems, was the 2002 winner of the New Criterion Poetry Prize. He has subsequently served as a New Criterion Poetry Prize judge.

Conrad Black

Visiting Critic

Conrad Black is The New Criterion’s Visiting Critic for the 2021–22 season and the 2020 recipient of the Edmund Burke award. His book Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other was recently published in an updated paperback edition by Encounter Books.

Victor Davis Hanson

Visiting Critic

Victor Davis Hanson is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author of The Dying Citizen (Basic Books). He is The New Criterion’s Visiting Critic for the 2021–22 season and the 2018 recipient of the Edmund Burke award.

Hilton Kramer

Founding Editor & Publisher

Hilton Kramer (1928–2012) was the founding editor of The New Criterion, which he started with the late Samuel Lipman in 1982. From 1987 until 2006, he was also the art critic for the weekly New York Observer, and for many years wrote the “Critic’s Notebook” column in Art & Antiques magazine. His “Media Watch” column was published weekly in The New York Post from 1993 to November 1997.

Samuel Lipman

Publisher 1982-1994

Samuel Lipman (1934–1994) was the founding publisher of The New Criterion, which he started with the late Hilton Kramer in 1982. A distinguished concert pianist, Lipman wrote music criticism for Commentary and served on the National Council on the Arts.

Caetlynn Booth

Office Manager

Jayne Allison

Assistant to the Editors