On a concert by the National Symphony Orchestra, at the Trump Kennedy Center.

While Dueñas was playing, a woman sneaked down the aisle, back to her seat. Apparently, she had left after the Beethoven, not realizing that there would be an encore. This time she had her shoes—those ...

Jay Nordlinger on a concert by the New York Philharmonic, with Thomas Adès conducting and Yuja Wang at the piano.

On Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed, by Eric H. Cline.

On “Louise Nevelson: Mrs. N’s Palace,” at the Centre Pompidou, Metz.

There is enough blame to be shared all around. Every organization, every office, every business has employees who are detrimental to the work performed. But the CIA should have been more vigilant.

Lunching at Oxford in 1967 with Elizabeth Taylor and his Oxford mentor, Nevill Coghill, the actor Richard Burton was ...

When the conductor took the stage at David Geffen Hall on Friday afternoon, the man in front of me said to his wife, “She’s short.” I thought, “But is she shorter than Ormandy?” I met Eugene Ormandy ...

On January 22, Friends of The New Criterion gathered at the offices of the magazine to celebrate the publication of Brooke Allen’s “Good Bones: Glorious Relics from the Age of Reading.” The New Criter ...

On The Winter Show, Viollet-le-Duc, American classical music, Renoir’s drawings & more from the world of culture.