As someone who didn’t know much about Rossini, this was both entertaining and enriching. == New Criterion is in my view the best magazine around, so always love seeing it on HN! Hilton Kramer, the late New York Times Critic, founded it to pursue a Modernist, as opposed to Postmodernist, approach to criticism. It is unabashedly highbrow. While certainly accessible to a cultured layman, it is not dumbed down, and there…
I almost subscribed but: 1/ they don't accept Paypal 2/ they insist on typing in a physical address even for electronic subscriptions Why do they make it hard to love them.
What is the difference between an electronic subscription and simply reading it on the web, as we seem to be able to do even as non-subscribers?