Liam Warner on the overlooked professor Arthur Quiller-Couch & his “Cambridge Lectures.” ...

Womersley detects the primeval currents of tragedy in Othello: Desdemona’s death (and Othello’s) is a sparagmos (a ritual ...

James Piereson on American attempts to overthrow Cuba’s Communist regime.

A New Perspective on 1970s Landscape Painting in Israel,” at the Haifa Museum of Art.

Pondering the legacy media’s dour coverage of Operation Epic Fury in Iran, we wonder whether the disjunction between reality and rationalization has ever been greater. The reality is that the United ...

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S ay what you will about Doctor Faustus’s art of the deal, but he was, as Christopher Marlowe relates, an accomplished figure well before signing that contract, a Renaissance polymath. The same cannot ...

A new poem by Michael Homolka. Everyone’s finally gone. The cypresses near the shore have relaxed even as they experiment with their socially relevant branches. Everyone says if you consider remote ...

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A new poem by Sunil Iyengar. My owner stops to watch me, then continues, as earnest with his toy as I with mine. He doesn’t chew it, though, or lap its edges. Instead his thumbs, conferring him divine ...

Paul Ehrlich Was Always Wrong, Never in Doubt” was the title of Jason L. Riley’s article for The Wall Street Journal on the death in March at age ninety-three of the professor whose best-selling book ...

The Nazis wasted no time in denouncing the artist Paul Klee (1879–1940). On February 1, 1933, less than a month after Hilter’s ascendance, the periodical Die Rote Erde (The Red Earth) published a hit ...