Mystery Cults in Ancient Greece and Rome,” by Damien Stone.

Jay Nordlinger on a podcast with music from hither and yon.

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

David Platzer on “The Empire of Sleep,” at the Musée Marmottan-Monet, Paris.

It is with great sadness that we record the death of Jonas Dovydenas, a celebrated war photographer, generous supporter of ...

Treasures from the Terra Sancta Museum,” at the Frick Collection.

The Supreme Court heard arguments last week in an election case (Louisiana v. Callais) that will decide how far the federal courts can go in requiring state legislatures to consider race in drawing ...

On Heirs & Graces: A History of the Modern British Aristocracy, by Eleanor Doughty. The House of Lords would then comprise about 740 life peers, created by recent prime ministers. Life peerages were ...

The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida, has just opened its first gallery dedicated to the museum’s collection of Cypriot antiquities, the third-largest in the Americas after ...

Songs of the heart, etc. This episode is about songs of the heart. There is one from Russia, performed two diffe ...

“Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,” Caliban tells Stephano and Trinculo in The Tempest. As Britain’s public morals and political conduct regress to their sleazy Georgian mean, the ordinary ...

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