On “Louise Nevelson: Mrs. N’s Palace,” at the Centre Pompidou, Metz.

Jay Nordlinger on a concert by the New York Philharmonic, with Thomas Adès conducting and Yuja Wang at the piano.

On Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed, by Eric H. Cline.

“Little Russia” referred approximately to the portion of the Russian Empire that is today within the borders of Ukraine. The ...

Steven McGregor is a veteran of the Iraq War and an Honorary Research Fellow of the University of Buckingham. His most recent ...

Mexico was unusually free-spending and smart in pumping resources into education, public health, and medicine, particularly ...

Editors’ note: The following passage is excerpted from Book III of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, translated by Aaron Poochigian, published this month by Liveright.

Lunching at Oxford in 1967 with Elizabeth Taylor and his Oxford mentor, Nevill Coghill, the actor Richard Burton was ...

On The Winter Show, Viollet-le-Duc, American classical music, Renoir’s drawings & more from the world of culture.

Of the paper trail left by Marlowe’s life, no document has been more pored over than the report of the inquest into his death ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Despite all that, Zamyatin was lucky. Other writers who (to quote from the same letter) earned a “criminal name” ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. The enduring legacy of the Greek philosophers was therefore the primacy of things, and Western thought followed ...