On the Civil War, Emily Nelligan, Beethoven, Newport’s architecture & more from the world of culture.

“Remember me,” commands an English-language slogan smeared in theatrical blood on the back of the title character’s white ...

George Loomis on Monteverdi’s “Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria,” Mozart’s “La clemenza di Tito” & Debussy’s “Pelleás et ...

On London’s National Gallery, Wallace Stevens & department stores.

Un viso d’angelo”—“a face of an angel,” says Dick Johnson, a bandit with a heart of gold, of Minnie, the keeper of the Polka ...

In this production the work’s foundational crime, originally the Nibelung dwarf Alberich’s theft of the magic Rhine treasure that he can fashion into the ring once he forswears love, is instead ...

Nonfiction: The World of Late Antiquity: CE 150–750, by Peter Brown (Thames & Hudson): In the first century B.C., the Roman poet Horace described how “captive Greece captured her savage conqueror, and ...

Delmore Schwartz is a haunting reminder of the travails—or roller-coaster rides—of reputation. He burst onto the literary scene in 1938, some years before his peers, with the poems, verse play, and ...

Just when everyone at the monastery has heaved a sigh of relief that the repulsive villain of The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Pavlovich, has at last gone home after behaving scandalously, he reappears.

In the West, at least, Sergei Prokofiev is known for his sonatas, his concertos, his symphonies, his ballets . . . But he is not really known for his operas. Should his operas be better known? That is ...

The art world never knew what to make of Joe Zucker, a painter who died in May at the age of eighty-two. Just as pirates became a recurring theme in his work, Zucker took a piratical stance on art ...