On “The Day is Gone: 100 Years of New Objectivity,” at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

The first work was Ein Heldenleben, “A Hero’s Life,” by Richard Strauss. Who’s the hero of that one? Why, the composer ...

Natasha Sumner does not answer that question in her latest book, Heroes of the Gale: A History of Fionn and the Fianna .She ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Once derided as unfit for opera because it offered no obvious romance, Boris Godunov defied expectations to ...

The Ligeti was his Étude No. 4, “Fanfares,” from 1985. It was light and limpid, and flavored with jazz. The Liszt was the Rhapsodie espagnole, from 1858. It is jaw-droppingly difficult. And Mr. Liu ...

On Democracy,” edited by David Bromwich.

George Loomis on “Un ballo in maschera,” at the Paris Opera.

But Alfred Chester’s 1962 complaint in Commentary was still largely valid decades later: “Updike has no sense of invention, ...

On September 30, a federal district court judge in Boston upheld Harvard’s use of racial preferences in undergraduate admissions against the challenge that they discriminate against Asian-Americans.