Barry Strauss on the life of the ancient Jewish historian.

Brown, sixty-seven, has long been known as one of Britain’s finest satirists and comic writers through his work for Private ...

On Boccaccio: A Biography, by Marco Santagata, translated by Emlyn Eisenach.

there is a land fertile and fair, encompassed by the waves and blessed with a multitude of human beings past all counting, ...

Churchill made Herculean efforts to avoid both world wars, the second for almost a decade. Those efforts did not involve the ...

Sean McGlynn on “Hammershøi and the Painters of Silence in North Europe and Italy” at the Palazzo Roverella, Rovigo.

Also on the stage was the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, and they would be conducted by Riccardo Muti, with whom they have ...

That was almost a relief: this great pianist is human after all. Typically, he plays a “second concert” after the printed ...

The Salzburg Festival is staging Julius Caesar, with Emmanuelle Haïm in the pit. She leads Le Concert d’Astrée, the group she ...

Viola players “don’t get no respect,” as the late Rodney Dangerfield would say. They are the butt of endless jokes (sometimes ...

George Loomis on “Les brigands,” performed by the Paris Opera.

Jay Nordlinger n Donizetti’s “Maria Stuarda” at the Salzburg Festival.