On Four Decades of Polish Essays edited by Jan Kott

A selection of articles from The New Criterion’s thirty-six-year history. The function of criticism: some Polish examples by Hilton Kramer On Four Decades of Polish Essays edited by Jan Kott. Now that the initial euphoria that greeted the downfall of Communism in Eastern Europe has somewhat abated and we are still in the first stages of assessing the terrible wreckage that this totalitarian system inflicted... more Sailing toward Poland by Vernon Young A review of Joseph Conrad: The Three Lives by Frederick R. Karl & Joseph Conrad: A Chronicle by Zdzislaw Najder. We spend our lives trying to discover in fact what we are by design.” (Ortega y Gasset said it.) Joseph Conrad spent half a lifetime trying to avoid what he was by design and the remaining half being equivocal about the.... more