I t was in 1965, in the heyday of New York City as well as of The New Yorker magazine, that the New York Herald Tribune, in successive Sunday supplements, published a two-part takedown of The New ...

The performance was dull. “Insuperably dull,” to borrow a phrase from William F. Buckley Jr. (who was describing a book).

She pointed out that recent decisions by the Court have set off a new wave of partisan gerrymandering by both political ...

Raymond Asquith (1878–1916)—the son of the British prime minister H. H. Asquith, a wit, scholar, barrister, and, at the end of his life, soldier—was the stuff of legend. In the years before 1914, he ...

The question before us is this: what do progressives really want? It’s always worth attending to what people tell you they ...

On Marco Rubio’s address in Athens.

Every culture has a literature that is to some extent subterranean. Much of it deserves to stay there. But certain pieces occasionally bubble to the surface. Invariably this happens because the work ...

On a recital from Martha Argerich and Renaud Capuçon in Salzburg.

On the nineteenth-century French historian & literary critic. We live in an age that has grown not merely impatient with ...