The two longest stories, “The Undefeated” and “Fifty Grand,” and the closing piece, “Now I Lay Me,” are weightier. I ...

Bernadette sang Sondheim, the title song of Anyone Can Whistle (I believe). She then slinked off the stage, waving goodbye, ...

David Butterfield on leaving Cambridge for Ralston College.

In the title role—that of the trovatore, or troubadour—was Michael Fabiano, the tenor from New Jersey. He sang with beautiful ...

We have yet had no genius in America, with tyrannous eye, which knew the value of our incomparable materials, and saw, in the ...

One is to find out what painting is and the other is to find out how to make a painting.” Now, we can follow the complexities ...

Teatro alla Scala, Italy’s premier opera house, includes an opera from the country’s pre-Mozart past in its programming each ...

Nothing but drums, cannons, men, misery of all sorts,” Beethoven wrote his publisher to describe the scene, which did nothing to help his incipient hearing loss. He dedicated the concerto not to ...

Paul du Quenoy on a revival of Balanchine’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at the Miami City Ballet.

Andrew Stuttaford on fiction by Johan Harstad, Alexander Lernet-Holenia, Caroline Blackwood & Michel Houellebecq.

T ak ing over of a country that has practices which seem scarcely compatible with peaceful governance and public order is not ...

Clare Rahner on a performance of the London City Ballet at the Joyce Theater.