Grace Hartigan began her art career free of the past. She had no technical training, education in art history, or particular ...

On Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda at the Salzburg Festival.

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Arnold Schoenberg’s string sextet Verklärte Nacht ( Transfigured Night) has everything one could wish for in a work of fin de ...

Paul du Quenoy on a revival of Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades at the Vienna State Opera, starring Anna Netrebko.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s three-volume opus, The Gulag Archipelago, which some have called the most important masterpiece of the twentieth century, is subtitled: “An Experiment in Literary ...

On Greek athletics, authorial cats, the licensing racket, Cretan painting & more from the world of culture.

“The Smithsonian Should Sue but Won’t, the Bayeux Tapestry Shouldn’t Travel but Will” Brian T. Allen, National Review ...

Every culture has a literature that is to some extent subterranean. Much of it deserves to stay there. But certain pieces occasionally bubble to the surface. Invariably this happens because the work ...

J us t 150 years ago, in 1869, Tolstoy published the final installment of War and Peace, often regarded as the greatest of all novels. In his time, Tolstoy was known as a nyetovshchik —someone who ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Philosophers of language spend a lot of time debating the ins and outs of the semantics of names. I am a linguist ...