The Rautavaara work was Cantus Arcticus, written for the Arctic University of Oulu. It is also known as the “Concerto for ...

Paul du Quenoy on a new production of “Parsifal,” at the San Francisco Opera.

Woman, Queen, and Legend,” by Lindy Grant.

An Ode to Finland,” at the Petit Palais, Paris.

William Logan on recently published poetry by Rosanna Warren, Moya Cannon, John Koethe, Rebecca Watts, Henri Cole & Wendy ...

One of Thatcher’s most famous mots was the observation that “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of ...

When Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation appeared in 1973, its impact, the author recalled, was immediate: “Like matter enveloped by antimatter, it ...

Every culture has a literature that is to some extent subterranean. Much of it deserves to stay there. But certain pieces occasionally bubble to the surface. Invariably this happens because the work ...

The Combative Life of Douglas Cooper, Collector and Friend of Picasso,” by Adrian Clark and Richard Calvocoressi.

In 1970, the Procurator General of the Discalced Carmelite Order, Finian Monahan, was summoned to the Vatican for a meeting. The subject of the meeting was a promising young American priest by the ...

On Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World, by Sudhir Hazareesingh.

By 1920 the sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, the founder of the Whitney Museum and a close friend of Cushing, garnered support to construct the Cushing Memorial Building for the Newport Art ...