Suzanna Murawski on “The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt,” at the Jewish Museum, New York.

Paul du Quenoy on a revival of Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades at the Vienna State Opera, starring Anna Netrebko.

On Richard the Lionheart, the Old Lyme Midsummer Festival, the Mark Morris Dance Group, the original Chelsea Piers & more ...

He plays fast and loose with the chronology, and the uninitiated could get lost in the long series of failed rebellions and ...

The impressive collection on exhibit at Beit Avi Chai, together with an insightful catalogue, recovers an important artistic ...

Abigail Anthony on Christopher Wheeldon’s Alices Adventures in Wonderland, performed by the Royal Ballet.

On Ralston College’s excellence in classics. There is more to Ralston than Greek and Latin. But nothing sets Ralston apart more than its professors’ ability to take young people who do not know these ...

On new volumes & editions by Medbh McGuckian, Paul Muldoon, Brad Leithauser, Dorothy Parker & Claudia Emerson.

Here is another manifestation of that prior worldview: the Metropolitan Opera’s new staging of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Aida, currently running at the Met (see the May 2025 issue of The New Criterion).