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

George Loomis on “Un ballo in maschera,” at the Paris Opera.

A few years ago, during an interview for an editorial position at an American magazine, the editor asked me (a foreigner) if I had read Walt Whitman. I had read some American poets, but no, not ...

Each week the editors of The New Criterion offer recommendations on what to read, see, and hear in the world of culture in ...

W it h an extra-long run—a notorious marathon for exhibitors—The Winter Show straddles the timing of the American-art ...

David Walsh on “The Olavo de Carvalho Reader.” ...

Paul A. Rahe on “The History of the Peloponnesian War,” by Thucydides, edited and translated by Robin Waterfield.

This led to his being regarded with some embarrassment by his family, who subscribed to what St Aubyn calls the “Cornish ...

In the first half of the twentieth century, Longhi (1890–1970) almost singlehandedly reestablished Caravaggio’s reputation ...

Unfortunately, he forgot to include realism tout court, which suggests a certain lack of realism in his understanding of the ...

The Woman, the Martyr,” by Sarah Ruden.