Now, neither classics nor philology is what it used to be. And the combination—classical philology—is in evident trouble. The ...
On a new production of Wagner’s Die Walküre, at the Bavarian State Opera. Kratzer studied philosophy as well as set design. He is well-versed in how to imbue opera productions with meaning even in ...
The Sun Valley Music Festival in Idaho is part of a constellation of prominent festivals that dot the Rocky Mountains’ ski towns each summer. I dropped in on the forty-second season to hear a ...
You’ve heard of the gardens of Versailles, but what about those of Méréville? For Apollo, Gabriel Wick takes a look at the history of the eighteenth-century garden designed in 1785 for Jean-Joseph, ...
On a new production of Wagner’s Tannhäuser at the Zürich Opera House. The director Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson hails from Iceland but has done most of his work in Germany. Wagnerians notably encountered ...
On Friends Until the End: Edmund Burke and Charles Fox in the Age of Revolution, by James Grant. I use the key term here for lack of a better. “Popular biography” should not be taken in a ...
As the Canadian writer Arthur Stringer observes in the foreword to his 1914 poetry volume Open Water, the poet who is committed to the immuring traditions of poetic ancestry “dons mail to face Mausers ...
America lost one of its foremost historians in June when Gordon S. Wood was killed in an automobile accident near his home in Providence, Rhode Island. An emeritus professor of history at Brown ...
Victor Davis Hanson is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author of The Second World Wars (Basic Books). He was The New Criterion ’s Visiting Critic for the ...
In former times, cities were a dead zone for classical music in the summer. People went to festivals in the countryside. Then came air conditioning. People still go to festivals in the countryside, ...
On Carthage: A New History, by Eve MacDonald. MacDonald has written a clear, straightforward, and readable history of (Punic) Carthage—to the extent that one can write a history of Carthage at all.
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results