One novel that arose from the disastrous impact of the Second World War that will endure, I believe, is Evelyn Waugh’s last ...
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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 ...
George Loomis on a performance of “Le siège de Corinthe” at the Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro.
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 ...
Paul du Quenoy on the Bayreuth Festival’s premiere production of Wagner’s ”Rienzi.” ...
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 ...
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 ...
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