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.

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

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

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 ...

On City of Light, City of Shadows: Paris in the Belle Époque by Mike Rapport.

On my first night at the Salzburg Festival, a friend and I were talking outside the House for Mozart, about to go in for a piano recital. “They are dressing a lot more casually here now,” he said.

On Saul Bellow: “I Was a Jew and an American and a Writer” by Gerald Sorin.

Almost all the rulers who have tried to destroy freedom have at first attempted to preserve its forms. This has been seen from Augustus down to our own day. —Alexis de Tocqueville, The Old Regime and ...

In ending so early a text to me with a heart. The risk? That doing so could raise some doubts.