He was born in Moscow in 1932; he died in Munich, his adopted home. His wife, who preceded him in death, was Maya Plisetskaya ...

Max Sligh on “Maurice Ravel,” by Emily Kilpatrick.

Currently, Muslims account for about 6.5 percent of Britain’s population. That may seem like a small number. But there are ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s renovated Michael C. Rockefeller Wing is astonishing, frightening, and baffling—and that’s more a reflection of the curator ...

As Liza Libes, a veteran of Literature Humanities, recently wrote, more in sorrow than in anger, “Ovid was sent on a ...

A Salzburg audience is a very disciplined one. In the middle of a Strauss set was “Cäcilie.” How you can refrain from ...

One is grimly amused to read that “the writings of Burke are the daily bread of statesmen, speakers, and political writers.” Granted that only eighty years had passed since Burke’s death, still there ...

Simon Heffer on a pair of new books about London’s clubs.

Gary Saul Morson on the Soviet politicization of science.

George Loomis on the new "Norma" at La Scala.

The next day’s email blast from the Times reported “Officials Recover Rifle and Seek Gunman ‘of College Age’ in Charlie Kirk ...

Thomas Mann openly converted from a chauvinistic rejection of all politics in Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man (1918) to ...