The Borghese Gallery is in the Villa Borghese Pinciana, built between 1607 and 1616 by Cardinal Scipione Borghese (1577–1633) ...

Paul du Quenoy on On Cole Porter’s “Kiss Me, Kate” at the Barbican Centre, London.

But in the London Review of Books, Mark Ford writes that the letters of the World War I poet Wilfred Owen, edited and released anew, reveal the impetus for his writing poetry—to describe the nearly ...

How the 1960s Turned Into a National Nightmare and How We Can Revive the American Dream” by Timothy S. Goeglein.

It’s an astonishing story. In 1760, a boy is born into slavery to a mixed-race enslaved woman and a wealthy French plantation ...

Editors’ note: “Democracy in America: a symposium” examines the status of popular sovereignty in the United States today, nearly two centuries after the seminal work of the political theorist Alexis ...

On In the Company of Art: A Museum Director’s Private Journals by Perry T. Rathbone, edited by Belinda Rathbone. Back before ...

The first diary entry Thom Gunn (1929–2004) ever made was dated December 29, 1944: “Mother died at 4.0 A.M, Friday.” Gunn was fifteen and living in the affluent North London district of Hampstead with ...

On Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue by Sonia Purnell.

One sign that a fundamental change is in the offing would be a new commitment to free speech. Unfortunately, that is one traditional liberal virtue that is under greater siege today than at any time ...