The Borghese Gallery is in the Villa Borghese Pinciana, built between 1607 and 1616 by Cardinal Scipione Borghese (1577–1633) ...
Paul du Quenoy on On Cole Porter’s “Kiss Me, Kate” at the Barbican Centre, London.
How the 1960s Turned Into a National Nightmare and How We Can Revive the American Dream” by Timothy S. Goeglein.
It’s an astonishing story. In 1760, a boy is born into slavery to a mixed-race enslaved woman and a wealthy French plantation ...
On In the Company of Art: A Museum Director’s Private Journals by Perry T. Rathbone, edited by Belinda Rathbone. Back before ...
One sign that a fundamental change is in the offing would be a new commitment to free speech. Unfortunately, that is one traditional liberal virtue that is under greater siege today than at any time ...
On Balzac’s Paris by Eric Hazan & City of Light, City of Shadows: Paris in the Belle Époque by Mike Rapport.
On Saul Bellow: “I Was a Jew and an American and a Writer” by Gerald Sorin.
On my first night at the Salzburg Festival, a friend and I were talking outside the House for Mozart, about to go in for a piano recital. “They are dressing a lot more casually here now,” he said.
Editors’ note: “Democracy in America: a symposium” examines the status of popular sovereignty in the United States today, nearly two centuries after the seminal work of the political theorist Alexis ...
In ending so early a text to me with a heart. The risk? That doing so could raise some doubts.
On Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue by Sonia Purnell.