Anatoly Grablevsky on “Monet and Venice,” at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

Paul du Quenoy on the season-opening new production of Lohengrin at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.

William Walton composed his “What Cheer?” in 1961. But that carol hearkens back to an earlier form, and its words date to, ...

Singing, playing, and shouting Christmas “Chronological order is not the only order,” says Jay in this episode, but “it’s not a bad” one. The episode starts in the sixteenth century—“Gaudete, Christus ...

On the pleasures of fellowship at the margins of literary life.

Weekly recommendations from the Editors on what to read, see, and hear in the world of culture.

It is a great irony that at a time when Facebook and Twitter are closing accounts of conservatives for allegedly promoting “hate,” and conservative speakers are banned from college campuses for (as it ...

Democrats won recent elections in New York City, New Jersey, and Virginia by calling attention to the “affordability crisis”—the claim that prices are too high and stretching the budgets of most ...

Sally Quinn won’t return my emails. Perhaps Quinn, the doyenne of Washington, D.C., and the widow of the Washington Post legend Ben Bradlee, is overwrought. As she recently lamented in The New York ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. This petition is remarkable because it involves one of the preeminent cultural institutions in the world being ...

“Quomodo dicitur Latine laptop, magister?” On the left a herd of goats, and to the right a yet-hungrier herd of wide-eyed tourists, ruminate upon the ancient terrain. I chew over this question as the ...

Among the great intellectual developments of the nineteenth century was the advent of the comparative method in the nascent field of linguistics. Among the great intellectual developments of the early ...