Suzanna Murawski on Rousseau, Rothko & American literature.

Paul du Quenoy on a new production of “Simon Boccanegra” at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.

In some parts of America, they speak an English that’s more English than the English. In 2006, in Sago, West Virginia, I ...

On The Light of Battle by Michel Paradis. As a young man Eisenhower seemed to be searching for a father figure to compensate ...

Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686–1755) is known for depicting animals and royal hunts amid magnificent landscapes. Two successive ...

On “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

This piece is the victim of one of the most famous gibes in concert-reviewing history: “more corn than gold” (Irving Kolodin ...

Schiele’s gift, at least as he understood it, was for revealing the spirits of life and making them manifest in oil. “I can ...

“D ep end upon it, sir,” said Dr. Johnson, “when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind ...

John Steele Gordon on “Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party” by Edward Dolnick.

T he house on Wagner Street is narrow and unassuming. Located in the historic district of Annapolis, it faces the long and ...

Preserving that emotion of virtue is paramount to the Labour Party, which is why Britain under Starmer has upped the ante on ...