One photograph, however, was taken by a Coast Guard petty officer from the vantage point of a boat on the water, looking up ...

BR Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware, 1851, Oil on canvas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ...

Max Sligh on “Venice and the Ottoman Empire,” at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville.

Robert Steven Mack on historical recreations with the Paul Taylor Dance Company at the Joyce Theater.

On a performance of Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, at the Spoleto Festival.

He sought to give an impression of spontaneity in his painting, making him a pioneer of what is now called Impressionism. At ...

Kyle Smith on "Angry Alan," by Penelope Skinner at Studio Seaview.

Modern France has several such books. Perhaps the most infamous is Jean Raspail’s apocalyptic novel of mass migration, The Camp of the Saints. Since its first publication in 1973, the novel has ...

Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship on February 27, 2025. I was recently invited to address the question “Can ...

I n the beginning, Heraclitus contemplated the nature of reality and saw that everything flowed: πάντα ῥεῖ (panta rhei), he wrote, cleverly remembering the rule that the neuter plural in Greek takes a ...

R us sia’s most underrated writer, Vsevolod Garshin (1855–88), fascinated his contemporaries. A cult figure whose public readings provoked ecstatic responses, the charismatic Garshin struck one young ...

J us t when everyone at the monastery has heaved a sigh of relief that the repulsive villain of The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Pavlovich, has at last gone home after behaving scandalously, he ...