Suzanna Murawski on Simone Weil, an art heist & Picasso in Cleveland.

The Metropolitan Opera has gone dark for a month or so, but its orchestra is free to play—as it did last night in Carnegie Hall. The program was all-Brahms. It is good to be able to see these players ...

Venerated in his lifetime, Saint Francis did not have to wait long for a monument to be erected in his honor. A basilica in ...

This winter, the playwright Matthew Gasda, best known for his observations of New York’s disaffected Zoomer youth, has staged ...

Paul du Quenoy on a concert of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington.

Tennyson wrote a famous poem for New Year’s Day, or any day. Jonathan Dove, a contemporary English composer, set it to music. This episode begins with that piece. There is also a song from the ...

On Cicero, the Aegean Islands, The Book of Marvels, Johannes Regis & more from the world of culture. Master of the Geneva Boccaccio, “Sri Lanka (Trapponee),” in The Book of Marvels of the World, ca.

The New Criterion · Jeremy Black & James Panero discuss “The scream of steam” ...