Lunching at Oxford in 1967 with Elizabeth Taylor and his Oxford mentor, Nevill Coghill, the actor Richard Burton was ...

“Little Russia” referred approximately to the portion of the Russian Empire that is today within the borders of Ukraine. The ...

Isabel Leonard is an American mezzo-soprano. Our program booklet at Carnegie Hall said “Isabel Leonard, Vocalist.” “Vocalist” ...

Editors’ note: The following passage is excerpted from Book III of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, translated by Aaron ...

The concertmaster came out and played an A on the piano, for the orchestra to tune. The first piece would be a half step ...

Stephen E. Benko on Europe’s crisis of confidence.

Born in Venice and orphaned in his early teens, the talented Salieri was discovered by the composer Leopold Gassmann, who ...

Steven McGregor is a veteran of the Iraq War and an Honorary Research Fellow of the University of Buckingham. His most recent ...

Anatoly Grablevsky is the thirteenth and current Hilton Kramer Fellow at The New Criterion.

Fronting this display is Magna Carta, represented by an eighteenth-century engraved facsimile of the 1215 document preserved ...