Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. The Dream Factoryis the story of the men (it was exclusively men) who commissioned, designed, built, and worked ...

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It was improbable, to say the least, that the David Gruen born as a Jew in 1886 in the back-of-beyond Polish-Russian township of Plonsk should have become David Ben-Gurion, a world-historical figure.

Be My Guest” at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

Then a piano was wheeled out onstage for the Tchaikovsky Concerto (the First, of course, not the Second, which has always ...

President Trump’s takeover of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts earlier this year ruffled some feathers, but ...

Jimmy Kimmel is back, not only unrepentant but glorying in his new role as the people’s champion of “free speech” against the “un-American” tyrant in the White House. The closest he got to an apology ...

Sally Quinn won’t return my emails. Perhaps Quinn, the doyenne of Washington, D.C., and the widow of the Washington Post legend Ben Bradlee, is overwrought. As she recently lamented in The New York ...

On religious retellings, Monet, music at the Frick, Halsey Riccardo & more from the world of culture.

Last month, the University of Oxford announced in the weekly Gazette a series of proposed “changes to the Conduct of Ceremonies in Congregation, and certain other Ceremonies.” Among these changes are ...

Few cities can rival Vienna’s list of cultural and artistic luminaries. The thinkers Ludwig Wittgenstein, Carl Menger, Viktor Frankl, Friederich Hayek, and Sigmund Freud were all Viennese. So were the ...

On the poet’s time in Rapallo. This whistle-stop tour ignores poets, like Whitman and Dickinson, who had no generation to support or challenge them, as well as later poets like Hart Crane and Dylan ...