Thomas Mann and the Making of ‘The Magic Mountain,‘” by Morten Høi Jensen.

Then a piano was wheeled out onstage for the Tchaikovsky Concerto (the First, of course, not the Second, which has always ...

Be My Guest” at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

It was improbable, to say the least, that the David Gruen born as a Jew in 1886 in the back-of-beyond Polish-Russian township of Plonsk should have become David Ben-Gurion, a world-historical figure.

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. The Dream Factoryis the story of the men (it was exclusively men) who commissioned, designed, built, and worked ...

On human nature, Egyptian gods, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, European prints & more from the world of culture. Triad of Osiris, Horus, and Isis, 872–837 B.C., Gold inlaid with lapis lazuli, ...

Learned amateur architecture in our country antedates our republic. From the builders of early manor and plantation houses, who followed the latest pattern books shipped from England, to celebrated ...

On Riccardo Muti and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

On ancient Mesopotamia, Hogarth’s London, Erich Heckel, a lecture at the Frick & more from the world of culture.

President Trump’s takeover of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts earlier this year ruffled some feathers, but ...

Every culture has a literature that is to some extent subterranean. Much of it deserves to stay there. But certain pieces occasionally bubble to the surface. Invariably this happens because the work ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Stalin interrogated Sholokhov about ideologically problematic passages but agreed to the book’s publication on ...