The choir sang Eben’s Prague Te Deum 1989. It premiered in April 1990, on the eve of a visit by Pope John Paul II. From the ...

When the ship’s crew cut into Crook Jaw, they found neither Devil nor mermaid inside, just heaps of yellow seaweed. As it ...

Alfred Corn on the letters of Shirley Hazzard & Donald Keene.

Brooke Allen on “Academic Writing as if Readers Matter,” by Leonard Cassuto.

She, too, was a writer, and she sent me a short piece that she had published in a medical journal, which I found to be of ...

Suisman’s is an uncomplicated narrative that begins in the Civil War, when military music still served purely utilitarian ...

Nicholas Shrimpton on a recent Globe production of “The Taming of the Shrew.” ...

T he Chinese official, speaking at the Harvard Club in New York just before the turn of the century, was sobbing.

Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930,” at the Guggenheim Museum, New York.

After Warburg died in obscurity in 1929, devotees tended his flame. His memory was preserved above all within the research ...

Paul Devlin on “The Life of Herod the Great,” by Zora Neale Hurston.

Michele H. Bogart on the Taber Sears mural in the New York City Council Chambers ...