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

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

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

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

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 ...

Jane Coombs on a performance of the Sukhishvili Georgian National Ballet, at Carnegie Hall.

Populism in the United States and Europe strikes many as an affront to decency and good government, but what prompted it? If a few populists such as New York’s Zohran Mamdani have emerged from the ...

Longtime readers will know that The New Criterion has had what might politely be described as a fraught relationship with the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities. Samuel Lipman, our ...

My aim is to show that we have entered a period of post-historical art, where the need for constant self-revolutionization of art is now past. There can and should never again be anything like the ...

On the state of “the literary life” a quarter-century after Joseph Epstein wrote on this subject for our inaugural issue.