On a performance of Wagner’s Rheingold at the Salzburg Easter Festival.

Khatia Buniatishvili, a Georgian pianist, is a star on the international scene. So is another Georgian, Lisa Batiashvili, the ...

Grand, possibly familiar melodies predominate in “The Immigrant” and “Love Theme,” even as jazzy music in foxtrot rhythm, ...

Weekly recommendations from the Editors on what to read, see, and hear in the world of culture.

Put simply, a threat to a whole civilization falls into an entirely different category from a threat to a barbaric regime ...

As James Q. Wilson wrote for City Journal, “Marriage was once a sacrament, then it became a contract, now it is an ...

On April 9, the Friends and Young Friends gathered for a poetry party with David Lehman, winner of the 2025 New Criterion Poetry Prize. Poetry editor Christopher Scalia and executive editor James ...

As of this writing, Washington, D.C., is still struggling to contain the worst sewage spill in American history. In late February, President Trump authorized the declaration of a national emergency ...

The early spread of Christianity owed much to a single line of Greek poetry. Spencer Klavan explains what Paul of Tarsus saw in the poet Aratus. Read “A phenomenal poet.” ...

On The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, by Catherine Fletcher.