Emma Richards on “Jane Austen in 41 Objects,“ by Kathryn Sutherland.

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

Barry Strauss on the life of the ancient Jewish historian.

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

The endowments came into being in 1965, under Lyndon Johnson. It was not until the Nixon years, however, that they got their ...

Henrik Bering on the components of successful command.

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

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

Heather Mac Donald on the new ballet by Lincoln Jones & Alma Deutscher, premiered by American Contemporary Ballet.

James Bowman on the persistence of progressive insanity.

The more you prefer the primitive,” wrote the art historian E. H. Gombrich, “the less you can become primitive.” In the modern world, simplicity, subjectivity, even crudity can appeal to sophisticated ...

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