For the nation’s leading classical ensembles, the summer months promise no great respite, but they do portend a change in ...

Foreboding as the museum is, its third-floor space for temporary exhibitions is superb. An open room of some 15,000 square ...

The endowments came into being in 1965, under Lyndon Johnson. It was not until the Nixon years, however, that they got their ...

Emma Richards on “Jane Austen in 41 Objects,“ by Kathryn Sutherland.

Churchill made Herculean efforts to avoid both world wars, the second for almost a decade. Those efforts did not involve the ...

Brown, sixty-seven, has long been known as one of Britain’s finest satirists and comic writers through his work for Private ...

Jay Nordlinger on recent performances at Carnegie Hall, the BBC Proms, Lincoln Center & Bard College.

J. Alfred Prufrock measured out his life with coffee spoons; academics measure out their life with cocktail olives. Specifically, insipid cocktail olives in lukewarm martinis, served at a crowded bar ...

The chameleonic Curzio Malaparte (1898–1957) wore many guises, but it’s as a writer that he is best remembered, so those tackling Maurizio Serra’s impressiv ...

Barry Strauss on the life of the ancient Jewish historian.

A new poem by Peter Filkins.Tattered, their votives drowned, ribbons rotted by rain, they fade to blankness, disowned, a sun-scorched refrain of jerseys and makeshift crosses making clear it isn’t us ...