On a concert by the National Symphony Orchestra, at the Trump Kennedy Center.

While Dueñas was playing, a woman sneaked down the aisle, back to her seat. Apparently, she had left after the Beethoven, not realizing that there would be an encore. This time she had her shoes—those ...

The Kokinshū drew upon two main precedents. First was a Sinitic imperial tradition whereby poetry was extolled as the supreme form of cultural expression, and in which literary anthologies fulfilled ...

On “Louise Nevelson: Mrs. N’s Palace,” at the Centre Pompidou, Metz.

There is enough blame to be shared all around. Every organization, every office, every business has employees who are detrimental to the work performed. But the CIA should have been more vigilant.

On January 22, Friends of The New Criterion gathered at the offices of the magazine to celebrate the publication of Brooke Allen’s “Good Bones: Glorious Relics from the Age of Reading.” The New Criter ...

On The Winter Show, Viollet-le-Duc, American classical music, Renoir’s drawings & more from the world of culture.

At his inauguration on January 1 as New York’s first Muslim and first self-declared socialist mayor, the young, rich, Ugandan-born Zohran Mamdani crowed that “We will replace the frigidity of rugged ...

On Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed, by Eric H. Cline.