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
The Very Elder Statesman
Konrad Adenauer transformed West Germany, doing his best work as an octogenarian
By Mark N. Grant Friday, March 8, 2024
Iris as Pupil
Before this canonical English writer published novels, she was a student of French postwar philosophy
By Robert Zaretsky Friday, March 1, 2024
Starving
The feelings of yearning and loss, when faced with an empty nest, can manifest in striking ways
By Laura Bernstein-Machlay Friday, February 23, 2024
The Musical Bard
A turn through the musical museum of folk song and family
By Thomas Fox Averill Thursday, April 20, 2023
Remembering Alison
A writer who relished the extremes in life and found humor in the darkest regions
By Ann Beattie Monday, April 10, 2023
On the Record, At Last
My father never got to tell his story at the war crimes trials at Nuremberg—it’s taken decades for the truth to come out
By George Anders Thursday, March 23, 2023
Words, Words, Words
What does the advent of ChatGPT mean for already beleaguered teachers?
By Robert Zaretsky Thursday, January 12, 2023
Rage Against the Machine
If the American symphony orchestra is to survive, it must be rewired and reengineered
By Douglas McLennan Thursday, October 13, 2022
The Mule on the Stairs
Remembering the school in the midcentury South where “We Shall Overcome” was born
By Richard Tillinghast Thursday, October 6, 2022
Bad Jew
Reckoning with a heritage as painfully distant as it is impossible to lose
By Laura Bernstein-Machlay Thursday, September 22, 2022
The Changing of the Guard
This year’s US Open showed the world that tennis’s next generation is here
By Eric Wills Thursday, September 15, 2022
The Allure of the Enigmatic
“Mod” London takes center stage in Michelangelo Antonioni’s mind-blowing Blow-Up