Recent stories of note: “‘Queen Mariana of Austria’: Diego Velázquez’s Monumental Portrait of a Monarch” Mary Tompkins Lewis, ...

As we write, the United States is awash in a torrent of executive orders about everything from plastic straws (they are OK again) to so-called DEI initiatives (definitely not OK) and the fate of some ...

The two pianists sat down for encores, and at the same piano: the encores would be four-hands, not two-pianos. Wang and ...

Last night, the New York Philharmonic offered a program with an accent on the mysterious and the French. Guest-conducting was ...

“Paper, Color, Line: European Master Drawings from the Wadsworth Atheneum,” the exhibition now on view in Hartford, Connecticut, goes against every diminished expectation of what a major museum show ...

Gypsy (at the Majestic Theatre) is a nearly perfect show. The drama is engrossing, the Fifties jokes are still funny even if you’ve heard them before, and two characters get to undergo gobsmacking ...

Towards the end of his long life, never one to let the pen wither beneath his hand, David Lodge—who died on New Year’s Day at the age of eighty-nine—embarked on a mammoth autobiography. There were ...

On Madrid: A New Biography, by Luke Stegemann. In Luke Stegemann’s perceptive “new biography” of the kaleidoscopic capital of Spain, he chides Hemingway for possibly being “responsible for any number ...

When I was growing up in the wake of the war—no need to say which war—the bomb sites in London and the air-raid shelters in the parks in which we played made it perfectly plain to me that the ...

Among the most famous of Russian composers, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) is commonly described as an artist with a tortured soul, emblematic, perhaps, of a cultural landscape filled with ...

Eighty-five years ago, a great debate took place in America, one whose outcome has shaped U.S. foreign policy ever since. In 1940, as the German blitzkrieg swept over Holland, Belgium, and France, ...