Balanchine had intended the role to be interpreted as a princess, rather than as a queen, carrying the ethereal, regal ...

If we wish to understand our world, we would do well to initiate our studies by reading and rereading the Athenian’s account of his own world and of the upheavals it underwent in the course of his ...

On Roman theater, George Orwell, Esther before Ahasuerus, the borough of Queens & more from the world of culture.

Today, March 4, is National Grammar Day: an occasion, the NGD website tells us, to “celebrate good grammar in both our written and spoken communication.” Since I am a linguist and get my quotidian ...

On “The Day is Gone: 100 Years of New Objectivity,” at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

The first work was Ein Heldenleben, “A Hero’s Life,” by Richard Strauss. Who’s the hero of that one? Why, the composer ...

But Alfred Chester’s 1962 complaint in Commentary was still largely valid decades later: “Updike has no sense of invention, ...

Isaac Sligh & James Panero discuss the Republic of Georgia, Crusaders, travel writing, audiophiles & more.

Natasha Sumner does not answer that question in her latest book, Heroes of the Gale: A History of Fionn and the Fianna .She ...

On a concert by the New York Philharmonic, with Thomas Adès conducting & Yuja Wang at the piano.

Max L. Feldman on “TIHANYI 140,” at the National Gallery of Hungary, Budapest.

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