The other program, the subject of this review, appealed to more advanced balletomanes—works by Gianna Reisen, Ulysses Dove, ...

Whatever happened to the Regency gentleman—or rake—who whiled away his days drinking, flirting, and generally getting up to no good? Perhaps his spirit died with Simon Raven (1927–2001), one of the ...

(1974), the Supreme Court further broadened the group who could be maligned by the media to include “limited-purpose public ...

Jay Nordlinger on a performance of “Carmina Burana” at the Teatro Massimo.

On Vasily Grossman, Richard Estes, seaside art, William Faulkner, museum gardens & more from the world of culture. Richard Estes, Escalator at Penn Station, 2023, Oil on panel, Schoelkopf Gallery.

Every culture has a literature that is to some extent subterranean. Much of it deserves to stay there. But certain pieces occasionally bubble to the surface. Invariably this happens because the work ...

When the German princess Sophia Augusta Frederica of Anhalt-Zerbst (later known as Catherine the Great) found herself the empress of Russia, she was appalled by the barbarity of her new homeland. She ...

Charles Sligh on “Larry: A New Biography of Lawrence Durrell, 1912–1945,” by Michael Haag.

One of the two men, standing before the other, had a light complexion, a long, straight nose, and a long beard. This was the forty-three-year-old Abdullah ibn Haroun al Rashid, known by his regnal ...

This season of 250th-anniversary commemorations provides a perfect platform for broadcasting the merits of the American project, especially to youth whose educators may be concerned more with the ...