Now is the perfect time to approach Dickens’ classic, with its perennial themes of repentance and generosity. 

Fairy parties and flying reindeer are not things out of which eventually we must grow; they belong to the realm inhabited only by those who are mature enough to understand the world for what it is.

In our nihilistic age, Boito’s Mefistofele may be primed for a comeback.

Why has Hungary, after delivering significant reforms, only received €10 billion from the Commission?