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

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

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

The choir sang Eben’s Prague Te Deum 1989. It premiered in April 1990, on the eve of a visit by Pope John Paul II. From the ...

Rosa Feola, the Italian soprano, does her part in advocating Martucci. (She is a favorite singer of Muti, by the way.) She ...

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 ...

Jeremy Black on “The Price of Victory,” by N. A. M. Rodger.

When the ship’s crew cut into Crook Jaw, they found neither Devil nor mermaid inside, just heaps of yellow seaweed. As it ...

Paul Dean on “Shakespeare’s Tragic Art,” by Rhodri Lewis.

She, too, was a writer, and she sent me a short piece that she had published in a medical journal, which I found to be of ...

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.

Michele H. Bogart on the Taber Sears mural in the New York City Council Chambers ...