Then a piano was wheeled out onstage for the Tchaikovsky Concerto (the First, of course, not the Second, which has always ...

Be My Guest” at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

President Trump’s takeover of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts earlier this year ruffled some feathers, but ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. The Dream Factoryis the story of the men (it was exclusively men) who commissioned, designed, built, and worked ...

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On Riccardo Muti and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

Anatoly Grablevsky on Roman emperors, the Constitution & Bertie Wooster.

Every culture has a literature that is to some extent subterranean. Much of it deserves to stay there. But certain pieces occasionally bubble to the surface. Invariably this happens because the work ...

When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation appeared in 1973, its impact, the author recalled, was immediate: “Like matter enveloped by antimatter, it ...

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On religious retellings, Monet, music at the Frick, Halsey Riccardo & more from the world of culture.

On the cold-eyed realism of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind. Just after the opening credits of Gone with the Wind and before the start of the film proper is a title card that reads as follows ...