Liam Warner on the overlooked professor Arthur Quiller-Couch & his “Cambridge Lectures.” ...
A publisher suggested to me some years ago that I write a study of Agatha Christie’s social, political, and psychological ideas. The idea appealed to me because it would enable me—no, oblige me—to ...
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.
On Pausanias of Sparta, Thames & Hudson, TEFAF, Isamu Noguchi & more from the world of culture.
The renaissance of Gwen John (1876–1939) continues apace. The years 2023 through 2025 saw a medium-sized and rightly praised retrospective in the United Kingdom and the publication of two biographies.
A New Perspective on 1970s Landscape Painting in Israel,” at the Haifa Museum of Art.
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 ...
On May 7, the Friends and Young Friends gathered for an evening with Fr. George Rutler, who spoke about Shakespeare and Abraham Lincoln. The New Criterion · Fr. George Rutler on Shakespeare & Lincoln ...
Warren Frye on “Manet & Morisot,” at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Callais, the Supreme Court narrowed the reach of the Voting Rights Act so that it no longer requires state legislatures to ...