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

Warren Frye on “The Saga of the Earls of Orkney,” edited and translated by Judith Jesch.

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

Mahler’s Third began with a blatty onset in the horns—but, as they continued, those horns were arresting. Part I as a whole ...

The Rise and Fall of Athens’s Naval Mastermind,” by Michael Scott.

A few years ago, during an interview for an editorial position at an American magazine, the editor asked me (a foreigner) if I had read Walt Whitman. I had read some American poets, but no, not ...

Music has long depended on its benefactors, including commissioners. Think of the three string quartets that make up Beethoven’s Op. 59. They’re known as the “Razumovsky Quartets,” because Count ...

On political philosophy, Egon Schiele, Gainsborough, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Hogarth & more from the world of culture.

Each week the editors of The New Criterion offer recommendations on what to read, see, and hear in the world of culture in ...