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But on balance I think that the late Australian philosopher David Stove was right: the leading characteristic of the Left it ...

On The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom, by David Woodman.

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Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung, a mythical tetralogy with an ambition to relate nothing less than the creation and destruction ...

On new productions of Richard Strauss’s Die Liebe der Danae and Fauré’s Pénélope, at the Bavarian State Opera.

Thomas Mann openly converted from a chauvinistic rejection of all politics in Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man (1918) to ...

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On American poetry, medieval psalms, Sèvres porcelain, London doors & more from the world of culture.

The statue is clearly meant to be read as a challenge to the nearby mythological and biblical heroic sculptures of ...

James, an admirer of Sargent’s art, shared the painter’s extensive travel experience in Europe and polyglot qualities. They ...