Eliot put it in his poem “Little Gidding,” “to be redeemed from fire by fire.” Often, Gioia’s narrative poems that dramatize ...

One novel that arose from the disastrous impact of the Second World War that will endure, I believe, is Evelyn Waugh’s last ...

On a performance of Le siège de Corinthe at the Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro. Unfortunately, the festival’s lightweight production by Davide Livermore was often at odds with the opera’s seriousness.

Michael Gorra’s The Storytellers: Reading the Masterpieces of Nineteenth-Century Short Fiction is among the most beautiful—and wonderful—things that have ever happened to this reader. It’s the work of ...

“Make something new, children,” was Richard Wagner’s instruction to a rising generation of musicians whose work struck him as mired in conventionality. He offered this line rhetorically in a 1852 ...

Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at a January 8, 2026, panel discussion surrounding the publication of a new edition of Edward C. Banfield’s The Unheavenly City ...

Conrad Russell (1878–1947), praised by Evelyn Waugh as “one of the most exquisitely entertaining men I have known,” is unlikely to be known to many today. He may be confused with his younger and ...

Aperture’s headquarters on Columbus Avenue & Seventy-eighth Street. Photo: Aperture. Gustavo Dudamel conducts the New York Philharmonic. Photo: New York Philharmonic. “Dudamel Conducts Mahler & Tania ...

Paul du Quenoy on the Bayreuth Festival’s premiere production of Wagner’s ”Rienzi.” ...

Turner, conversely, invokes an older association with sacrifice, portraying a dead flock of sheep at the foot of the megaliths, with one of the stones catching a bolt of lightning from on high. From ...