On The Lives of Others, at the Adelphi Theatre, London.

Education for the mind needs to go beyond the mere transfer of information to include independent thinking, critical thinking ...

After the overture came a song-cycle, and, this being an all-Berlioz concert, you know which one: Les Nuits d’été. The ...

On a pair of exhibitions at the Château de Fontainebleau. Nicolas Guy Brenet, Allegory Around a Bust of Henri IV and a Medallion of the Countess de Gramont, 1776–78, Oil on canvas, Château de Pau.

In a year of much discussion of the Man of Twists and Turns, it was fitting that the Orchestra of the Greek National Opera ...

In a Medea, you need a Medea, for sure. Few title roles are as crucial. Still, there is no one more important in this opera than the conductor. He (or she) determines the character of a performance: ...

The Constructivist sculptor Naum Gabo (1890–1977) believed that Mikhail Vrubel (1856–1910) had shaped his entire generation. Yet in 1962 he complained that Western art historians were still “almost ...

Watch Lionel Shriver deliver the Eighth Annual Circle Lecture, “What do progressives really want?” A version of the remarks appear in the November 2026 issue of The New Criterion.

T he lesson of Martin Stannard’s authorized life of Muriel Spark (Muriel Spark: The Biography, 2009)—a conventionally framed linear progress through Spark’s eighty-eight years on the planet (1918–2006 ...

A look back at some of Baroness Orczy’s mystery novels and the vibrant characters within.

The Czech novelist Milan Kundera was in his late thirties when he published his first novel, The Joke, in Prague in 1967. The book traces the fortunes and amours of a young student, Ludvik, after his ...