On a memoir of resilience, the Bayeux Tapestry, the “Emperor” concerto, a Tom Stoppard play & more from the world of culture.

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 ...

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

George Loomis on a performance of “Le siège de Corinthe” at the Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro.

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 ...

On November 3 of last year, Richard Himelfarb, a Hofstra University professor of political science, said of remarks made by one of his colleagues at a faculty meeting that they were “complete word ...

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 ...

“Katherine Taylor: Transformed, New Sculptures and Drawings” at Skoto Gallery (through October 24): The conversation between sculptural form and surface is one that Katherine Taylor injects with a ...

The Sun Valley Music Festival in Idaho is part of a constellation of prominent festivals that dot the Rocky Mountains’ ski towns each summer. I dropped in on the forty-second season to hear a ...

You’ve heard of the gardens of Versailles, but what about those of Méréville? For Apollo, Gabriel Wick takes a look at the history of the eighteenth-century garden designed in 1785 for Jean-Joseph, ...