Paul du Quenoy on a revival of Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades at the Vienna State Opera, starring Anna Netrebko.

He plays fast and loose with the chronology, and the uninitiated could get lost in the long series of failed rebellions and ...

The impressive collection on exhibit at Beit Avi Chai, together with an insightful catalogue, recovers an important artistic ...

Suzanna Murawski on “The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt,” at the Jewish Museum, New York.

On Richard the Lionheart, the Old Lyme Midsummer Festival, the Mark Morris Dance Group, the original Chelsea Piers & more ...

Abigail Anthony on Christopher Wheeldon’s Alices Adventures in Wonderland, performed by the Royal Ballet.

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I n 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 ...

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 ...

For instance, in a 2020 piece about the coronavirus, a pair of Al Jazeera contributors proposed that “Going back to Hannah Arendt’s notion of the ‘banality of evil’ may help us make sense of what is ...