Writer on Board

The cruise story from Twain to Shteyngart

Nights at the Opera

Long before he wrote his masterly novels, Stendhal was transformed by the power of music

A Terrifying Delight

Following Robert Frost into the depths

Consummated in Exile

A new recording of Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances conveys the breadth of the 20th-century composer’s life’s journey

The Importance of Being Different

A travel writer’s education

Stereotypes and the City

 What to make of HBO’s attempts to diversify an iconic show?

Ripeness Is All

What may be the fate of classical music’s new superstars?

The Very Elder Statesman

Konrad Adenauer transformed West Germany, doing his best work as an octogenarian

Iris as Pupil

Before this canonical English writer published novels, she was a student of French postwar philosophy

Starving

The feelings of yearning and loss, when faced with an empty nest, can manifest in striking ways

The Musical Bard

A turn through the musical museum of folk song and family

Remembering Alison

A writer who relished the extremes in life and found humor in the darkest regions

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

Words, Words, Words

What does the advent of ChatGPT mean for already beleaguered teachers?

Rage Against the Machine

If the American symphony orchestra is to survive, it must be rewired and reengineered

The Mule on the Stairs

Remembering the school in the midcentury South where “We Shall Overcome” was born

A Midcentury Bender

Revisiting Mad Men, 15 years later

Bad Jew

Reckoning with a heritage as painfully distant as it is impossible to lose

The Changing of the Guard

This year’s US Open showed the world that tennis’s next generation is here

The Allure of the Enigmatic

“Mod” London takes center stage in Michelangelo Antonioni’s mind-blowing Blow-Up

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