The Tin Angel is a new opera by Daniel Asia, the American composer born in 1953. It is based on a novel of the same name by ...

I should like to do anything I could,” wrote Bailey, “to help Lt. Zeph Stewart, and if he is coming to England, I hope he ...

Rare is the opera that continues to be performed in two languages, but the exigencies of the Paris Opera have imprinted that ...

Jay Nordlinger on songs about flowers, etc.

Ricky Ian Gordon has written a cycle of songs about flowers. In this episode, we hear one of them. Rachmaninoff wrote a song called “Lilacs.” We hear that, too. Bach opens his Goldberg Variations with ...

Tel Aviv’s first mayor, Meir Dizengoff, was ruminating about a Jewish art museum in Eretz Yisrael when he invited Marc Chagall to visit him in the spring of 1931. While they were discussing potential ...

Benjamin Riley and James Panero discuss the Hilton Kramer Fellowship, the bridges of Robert Adam, and what it takes to write for The New Criterion.

On Shakespeare & his literary forerunners, contemporaries & heirs.

On the many book prizes of Paris and their attendant traditions.

On the life & writing of Vsevolod Garshin.