Thanks for joining us, and a special welcome to first-time readers. Today we study 2 Samuel 11, the story of David and Bathsheba, one of the most famous and dramatic chapters in the Old Testament ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. He cups his hands around the flame of her. He is the ember crushed into her palm. She is the streak of tar along ...

Rembrandt van Rijn’s magisterial painting in the Louvre of “Bathsheba at Her Bath” (1654) is the last of the Dutch painter’s female nudes and his most moving depiction of the seductive biblical ...

In the brief space of an op-ed, David Mamet manages to pack the power and truth of his plays and films. His “The Jews Are the World’s Foster Children” (Dec. 26) draws a straight and unerring line from ...

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