Somber Tannhäuser Revival Has Highs and Lows
The brilliant soloists at the Met were underserved by a worn production and subpar conducting.
Paul du Quenoy
February 5, 2024
In this operatic wonder, the characters’ passions are otherworldly in their intensity.
Peyo’s original Smurfs series offers readers a glimpse into a beautiful, sylvan world of medievalist wonder and adventure.
The success of Filip is that it combines the moving and the dramatic in perfect harmony.
“Like the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century, the new Leviathans are engineers of souls.”—John Gray
The inaccuracies are so numerous and glaring that an entire film could be made to document its errors alone.
Few will read Time to Think without realising that something went badly wrong at the Tavistock clinic.
In her exploration of East Germany, Hoyer doesn’t present socialism with a human face, but she does present the human faces of socialism.
The passion is palpable, but there is a smallness to the sets that cools the fire in the characters’ souls.
This novel, inspired by the murders of Jack the Ripper, ultimately forces readers to confront the evil that exists within their own breasts.
FROM THE FALL 2023 PRINT EDITION: A lesson that conservatives should learn is that inevitablists are always wrong in their manner of thinking.
Mary Harrington’s scorching polemic urges us to rediscover feminism’s reactionary potential.
In Outside the Gates, Hackett reveals to us that transcendence is woven into social reality, most especially in that highest friendship which tyranny seeks to root out: the friendship of virtue.
