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Areté is an arts magazine, published three times a year, edited by the poet Craig Raine
Craig Raine

Craig Raine is an English people poet and critic born in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, England. He is the best-known exponent of Martian poetry....
. The magazine aims to give detailed coverage of theatre, fiction, and poetry, while also serving as a platform for new writing in all genres.

The magazine has published contributions by a wide range of authors, including Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan

Ian Russell McEwan, CBE, Royal Society of Arts, Royal Society of Literature, is a Booker Prize-winning England novelist and screenwriter....
, Patrick Marber
Patrick Marber

Patrick Albert Crispin Marber is an England comedian, playwright, director, actor and screenwriter....
, Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard

Sir Tom Stoppard Order of Merit , Order of the British Empire, FRSL is a British screenwriter and playwright. He has written plays such as The Coast of Utopia, Arcadia , Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, and Rock 'n' Roll ....
, and Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes

Julian Patrick Barnes is a contemporary English writer. He has been shortlisted three times for the Man Booker Prize . He has written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh....
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Areté is an arts magazine, published three times a year, edited by the poet Craig Raine
Craig Raine

Craig Raine is an English people poet and critic born in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, England. He is the best-known exponent of Martian poetry....
. The magazine aims to give detailed coverage of theatre, fiction, and poetry, while also serving as a platform for new writing in all genres.

The magazine has published contributions by a wide range of authors, including Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan

Ian Russell McEwan, CBE, Royal Society of Arts, Royal Society of Literature, is a Booker Prize-winning England novelist and screenwriter....
, Patrick Marber
Patrick Marber

Patrick Albert Crispin Marber is an England comedian, playwright, director, actor and screenwriter....
, Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard

Sir Tom Stoppard Order of Merit , Order of the British Empire, FRSL is a British screenwriter and playwright. He has written plays such as The Coast of Utopia, Arcadia , Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, and Rock 'n' Roll ....
, and Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes

Julian Patrick Barnes is a contemporary English writer. He has been shortlisted three times for the Man Booker Prize . He has written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh....
. It has also promoted new authors such as Adam Thirlwell
Adam Thirlwell

Adam Thirlwell is a UK novelist. He was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Elstree. He is assistant editor of Aret?, an arts tri-quarterly....
, Jeremy Noel-Tod, Peter Morris
Peter Morris

Peter Morris may refer to:*Peter Morris , English football player and manager*Peter Morris , Australian politician*Peter Morris , 1991 Scrabble World Champion...
, James Womack and Tom Welsford.

One of the publication's defining features is "Our Bold", in which the editorial team takes sloppy critics to task. The magazine prides itself on high editorial standards and on close and accurate reading where others appear to have read superficially. Unashamedly nostalgic for the informed critical discourse of magazines such as the Paris Review
Paris Review

The Paris Review is an English-language literary magazine based in New York City. As its name suggests it was founded in Paris in 1953, for "the good writers and good poets, the non-drumbeaters and non-axe grinders....
, it is strongly associated with New College, Oxford
New College, Oxford

New College is one of the Colleges of the University of Oxfords of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Its official name, College of St Mary, is the same as that of the older Oriel College, Oxford; hence, it has been referred to as the "New College of St Mary", and is now almost always called "New College"....
. The journal's trademark feather, or quill
Quill

A quill pen is a writing implement made from a flight feather of a large bird. Quills were used for writing with ink before the invention of the dip pen, metal-Nib bed pens, the fountain pen, and, eventually, the ballpoint pen....
, which adorns its cover was created by the British artist Mark Alexander
Mark Alexander (painter)

Mark Alexander is a contemporary British artist....
.

The journal's name is the Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
 word for "virtue", and it is prefaced by a quotation from Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture by Werner Jaeger
Werner Jaeger

Werner Wilhelm Jaeger was a classics of the 20th century.Jaeger was born in Lobberich, Rhenish Prussia. He attended school at Lobberich and at the Gymnasium Thomaeum in Kempen before studying at the University of Marburg....
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"The Greeks felt that areté was, above everything else, a power, an ability to do something. Strength and health are the areté of the body; cleverness and insight the areté of the mind."


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