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

Which English-language novel dealing with World War II will survive? From Here to Eternity, Slaughterhouse-Five, Catch-22? Is there any World War II novel that approaches the impact of Ernest ...

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“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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference in London on June 25, 2026. Anthony Fauci sat before the Senate ...

Standing like Shelley’s “vast and trunkless legs of stone,” megaliths have invited speculation throughout history. The premise of Paul Robichaud’s book Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in ...