Suzanna Murawski on Giotto’s frescoes, the university’s origins & an embattled Klimt.

For example, the latest Michelin Guide considers the best two restaurants in Washington, D.C., to be minibar and Jônt, whereas the magazine Washingtonian chooses Albi and Dо̄gon. And while U.S. News & ...

Volatility today leads us to look at the foundations of the international world that is now being transformed. The key decade was the 1940s, the period of the establishment of American superpower ...

On Dickens the Enchanter, by Peter Conrad.

On The Technological Republic, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska.

On Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers, by Jean Strouse.

On Raymond Aron’s Critique de Sartre.

Many American poets still take their tensions from Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath, whose confessional poetry (a term coined by the critic M. L. Rosenthal) has been the de facto manner for the past two ...

Not a very innocent guy.” That was President Trump’s characterization, at a news conference on April 18, of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the “Maryland man” deported to El Salvador a month earlier. Well, who ...

Thomas Larcher, the Austrian composer, made one of the most charming remarks I have ever heard from a concert stage. The New York Philharmonic was about to play his Symphony No. 2. He had come out to ...