Paul du Quenoy on a revival of “Boris Godunov,” at the Royal Opera.

The Ligeti was his Étude No. 4, “Fanfares,” from 1985. It was light and limpid, and flavored with jazz. The Liszt was the Rhapsodie espagnole, from 1858. It is jaw-droppingly difficult. And Mr. Liu ...

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

Two gold and velvet notes—there Rolls met Royce. It’s supposed to be humorous. But it’s painfully strained, and not, to my tastes, remotely funny. It, however, wasn’t written for me: it was written ...

On Neighbours and Rivals, by Louis-Sébastian Mercier, translated by Jonathan Conlin & Laurent Turcot. “They order this matter better in France,” observed Sterne at the opening of A Sentimental Journey ...

On the past and present of higher education. As for “university,” the general assumption of those who reflect on the word’s meaning is that it signals the “universal” character of the institution, ...

Conrado Tenaglia was a 2025 visiting scholar at Harvard Law School and, previously, a partner for almost twenty-five years at Linklaters, LLP.

On Saints & Sinners, by Nicholas St Aubyn. The family member who came over with William the Conqueror was a page in the household of Juhel of Mayenne (also known as Juhel de Totnes) in Brittany. His ...

David Walsh is a professor emeritus of Politics at The Catholic University of America. His most recent book is The Invisible Source of Authority (University of Notre Dame Press).

Having lived away from Buenos Aires for more than thirty years, I, when back there, cannot stop thinking that my hometown still bears the physical confidence of a country that once expected the future ...

When Augustin Hadelich took the stage at David Geffen Hall, I thought back to a recital from the 2002–03 New York season. More about that in a moment. Hadelich is a violinist born in 1984 to German ...