On a recent concert of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Dima Slobodeniouk.

Will there always be an England? Keir Starmer’s Labour Party has put the answer to that question very much in doubt. The prime minister’s strategy seems to be to look around for dystopian novels and ...

The works shown in New York City Ballet’s annual Fall Fashion Gala typically, and perhaps unsurprisingly, elevate style (of ...

A Christmas selection: songs old and newer, performed by Leontyne Price, Luciano Pavarotti, Heidi Grant Murphy, Odetta, Mel Tormé, et glorious al.

Suzanna Murawski on Rousseau, Rothko & American literature.

On Trotsky, Diego Rivera & David Alfaro Siqueiros in Mexico City.

What’s so bad about having a mentally deficient ruler? Surely the ruler’s advisors can make wise decisions and tell him what to say? When I hear such reasoning, I think of Tsar Nicholas II, his sad ...

Everyone knows about Aesop and his fables, but few have ever read straight through any serious collection of them, never mind Ben Edwin Perry’s unsurpassed Aesopica of 1952, which assembles 725, along ...

In some parts of America, they speak an English that’s more English than the English. In 2006, in Sago, West Virginia, I ...

We have known composers who conduct, but conduct mainly their own music: Stravinsky, for example, or Copland. We have known composers who are also big-league conductors: Bernstein, Previn, Boulez.