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

Gary Saul Morson on the Soviet politicization of science.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

It’s not too late for the republic to listen.

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 ...

Like Dickinson, Dodd deals only with essentials and has consistently defied conventional expectations. She came of age as an ...

Throughout this book, Atkinson also manages well the bringing together of a number of strands. In contrast with some past ...