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.
Five years ago, Notre-Dame de Paris went up in flames. Two years ago, a dig, undertaken to prepare for the restoration of Notre-Dame’s spire, unearthed lead sarcophagi buried underneath the cathedral.
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 ...
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 ...
On In the Company of Art: A Museum Director’s Private Journals by Perry T. Rathbone, edited by Belinda Rathbone. Back before ...
The first diary entry Thom Gunn (1929–2004) ever made was dated December 29, 1944: “Mother died at 4.0 A.M, Friday.” Gunn was fifteen and living in the affluent North London district of Hampstead with ...
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 City of Light, City of Shadows: Paris in the Belle Époque by Mike Rapport.
On Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue by Sonia Purnell.