On “The Day is Gone: 100 Years of New Objectivity,” at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

The first work was Ein Heldenleben, “A Hero’s Life,” by Richard Strauss. Who’s the hero of that one? Why, the composer ...

Max L. Feldman on “TIHANYI 140,” at the National Gallery of Hungary, Budapest.

Natasha Sumner does not answer that question in her latest book, Heroes of the Gale: A History of Fionn and the Fianna .She ...

Paul du Quenoy on a revival of “Boris Godunov,” at the Royal Opera.

The Ligeti was his Étude No. 4, “Fanfares,” from 1985. It was light and limpid, and flavored with jazz. The Liszt was the Rhapsodie espagnole, from 1858. It is jaw-droppingly difficult. And Mr. Liu ...

On Democracy,” edited by David Bromwich.

On September 30, a federal district court judge in Boston upheld Harvard’s use of racial preferences in undergraduate admissions against the challenge that they discriminate against Asian-Americans.

Each week the editors of The New Criterion offer recommendations on what to read, see, and hear in the world of culture in ...

David Walsh on “The Olavo de Carvalho Reader.” ...

Paul A. Rahe on “The History of the Peloponnesian War,” by Thucydides, edited and translated by Robin Waterfield.