When he rose to the throne, the only remaining Anglo-Saxon kingdom not under Æthelstan’s control was Northumbria, which was ...

On new productions of Richard Strauss’s Die Liebe der Danae and Fauré’s Pénélope, at the Bavarian State Opera.

The opera’s plot, which is based on the assassination in 1792 of King Gustav III of Sweden at, yes, a masked ball, proved ...

September” in the book’s calendar belongs to this period, since it includes the arms of the forty-day tournament celebrated ...

This sculpture was placed in the center of the Piazza de la Signoria, not far from where the copy of Michelangelo’s colossal ...

The Critic’s Notebook by the Editors On Perpetua, Rudolf II, the Croatian coast, New York fountains & more from the world of culture.

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

Andrew Stuttaford on “Malaparte: A Biography,” by Maurizio Serra, translated by Marshall Yarbrough.

J. Alfred Prufrock measured out his life with coffee spoons; academics measure out their life with cocktail olives. Specifically, insipid cocktail olives in lukewarm martinis, served at a crowded bar ...