Paul du Quenoy on the season-opening new production of Lohengrin at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.

William Walton composed his “What Cheer?” in 1961. But that carol hearkens back to an earlier form, and its words date to, ...

Paul du Quenoy on the season-opening new production of Shostakovich’s “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk,” at La Scala.

On the U.S. semiquincentennial.

Singing, playing, and shouting Christmas “Chronological order is not the only order,” says Jay in this episode, but “it’s not a bad” one. The episode starts in the sixteenth century—“Gaudete, Christus ...

When war broke out again in Europe on September 1, 1939, the Depression-era U.S. Army was only some 170,000 soldiers ...

Gentz called the American Revolution “defensive” and the French one “offensive.” Maistre traced the latter’s most offensive ...

On “Mies van der Rohe: An Architect in His Time,” by Dietrich Neumann.

But Lear is not bluffing. He intends to retire from kingship and divide his kingdom, and he does retire from kingship and ...

Spoken or unspoken, all the essays on America’s semiquincentennial that follow in this special symposium conjure with the defining question of our political dispensation. The question was articulated ...

David also wrote ten novels and nearly twenty nonfiction books. Among the latter are biographies of Graham Greene, Cyril ...