On Book
August Wilson’s play just hit the big screen, but even greater rewards await on the page
By David A. Taylor Monday, November 25, 2024
The Baritone as Democrat
How Lawrence Tibbett prophesied the Metropolitan Opera crisis of today
By Joseph Horowitz Thursday, November 21, 2024
Writer on Board
The cruise story from Twain to Shteyngart
By Thomas Swick Thursday, September 5, 2024
Nights at the Opera
Long before he wrote his masterly novels, Stendhal was transformed by the power of music
By Robert Zaretsky Thursday, August 15, 2024
A Terrifying Delight
Following Robert Frost into the depths
By Mark Edmundson Thursday, June 27, 2024
Consummated in Exile
A new recording of Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances conveys the breadth of the 20th-century composer’s life’s journey
By Joseph Horowitz Friday, June 14, 2024
Stereotypes and the City
What to make of HBO’s attempts to diversify an iconic show?
By Sharon Sochil Washington Thursday, April 25, 2024
Ripeness Is All
What may be the fate of classical music’s new superstars?
By Joseph Horowitz Thursday, April 11, 2024
Winning the Second World War
Some reasons why the Allies made it happen
By Michael W. Robbins Saturday, August 15, 2020
Coward, Take My Coward’s Hand
Looking back at Mark Robson’s Home of the Brave
By David Lehman Thursday, August 13, 2020
A Pre-Columbian Bestiary
Fantastic creatures of indigenous Latin America
By Ilan Stavans Thursday, August 6, 2020
Beyond Classification
One writer’s journey into the labyrinth of political and bureaucratic obfuscation
By Michael Sherry Thursday, July 23, 2020
Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Actby Nicholson Baker
Brotherly Medicine
The poet who helped bind up the nation’s wounds
By Robert Roper Thursday, July 16, 2020
America’s Black Soldiers
The long history behind the Army’s Jim Crow forts
By Elizabeth D. Samet Saturday, July 11, 2020
Billy Joe Wardlow, RIP
The subject of a Scholar cover story, executed in Texas
By Lincoln Caplan Thursday, July 9, 2020
An Exchange of Bullets in Belfast
Revisiting Carol Reed’s 1947 masterpiece Odd Man Out
By David Lehman Thursday, July 9, 2020
“A Heap of Juneteenths”
How the word, and the holiday, came about
By John F. Callahan Thursday, June 18, 2020
Strangers and Mirrors
Orson Welles’s The Stranger (1946) and The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
By David Lehman Tuesday, May 26, 2020
