Balanchine had intended the role to be interpreted as a princess, rather than as a queen, carrying the ethereal, regal ...

If we wish to understand our world, we would do well to initiate our studies by reading and rereading the Athenian’s account of his own world and of the upheavals it underwent in the course of his ...

But for many years now, Mignon Fogarty (“Grammar Girl”) has presided over the website and the holiday, and I am not alone in appreciating her balanced approach between language’s “is” and its “ought.” ...

On “The Day is Gone: 100 Years of New Objectivity,” at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

The first work was Ein Heldenleben, “A Hero’s Life,” by Richard Strauss. Who’s the hero of that one? Why, the composer ...

Max L. Feldman on “TIHANYI 140,” at the National Gallery of Hungary, Budapest.

Paul du Quenoy on a revival of “Boris Godunov,” at the Royal Opera.

The Ligeti was his Étude No. 4, “Fanfares,” from 1985. It was light and limpid, and flavored with jazz. The Liszt was the Rhapsodie espagnole, from 1858. It is jaw-droppingly difficult. And Mr. Liu ...

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

On September 30, a federal district court judge in Boston upheld Harvard’s use of racial preferences in undergraduate admissions against the challenge that they discriminate against Asian-Americans.

On recent performances at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall & the Met Opera.

On Roman theater, George Orwell, Esther before Ahasuerus, the borough of Queens & more from the world of culture.