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

George Loomis on “Un ballo in maschera,” at the Paris Opera.

On Democracy,” edited by David Bromwich.

The Rise and Fall of Athens’s Naval Mastermind,” by Michael Scott.

Warren Frye on “The Saga of the Earls of Orkney,” edited and translated by Judith Jesch.

Mahler’s Third began with a blatty onset in the horns—but, as they continued, those horns were arresting. Part I as a whole ...

Music has long depended on its benefactors, including commissioners. Think of the three string quartets that make up Beethoven’s Op. 59. They’re known as the “Razumovsky Quartets,” because Count ...

On political philosophy, Egon Schiele, Gainsborough, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Hogarth & more from the world of culture.

W it h an extra-long run—a notorious marathon for exhibitors—The Winter Show straddles the timing of the American-art ...