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Why the Lights Are Going Out in South Africa
Lessons from the shocking memoir of a top South African electricity executive.
Lessons from the shocking memoir of a top South African electricity executive.
Rigoletto has “all the characteristics of a perfect film noir”— seduction, murder, anonymous identities, spooky nocturnal settings, casual violence, unapologetic brutality, and, when done right, some dark humor.
In 42 short meditations on a wide range of topics, Hubert van Zeller presents the universal call to holiness by bluntly addressing common tendencies in man. His writing has a British 1950s charm, yet cuts to what is essential in a way that feels modern and relevant.
This graphic novel was clearly crafted by two men who share a love of older superhero comics, even as they used their work to interrogate the genre and the world that produced it.
What do we do when we realize that we understand neither ourselves nor our world? Anderson thinks the answer is the same, whether in life, faith, studies, or art.
Lobmeyr’s lighting creations can be found in some of the leading opera houses in the world.
The future need not be bleak, as Benson’s novel reminds us.
Although at first glance, The Island Without Seasons is merely an adventure story about a man trying to discover the lost city of Atlantis, it is ultimately about how the man’s search allows him to better understand himself and the world in which he lives.
In program interviews, director Marcin Łakomicki and conductor Markus Stenz suggest that Holländer is really about sexism in modern society and a reinforcement of gender roles. A modern European man educated in what passes for the humanities today might think so. But the deeper contexts are ignored.
A seeming joke about two movies, Barbie and Oppenheimer, is actually pointing to a renewal of American cinema that may be on the horizon.
The Once and Future Roman Rite is an historical study and a call to action. The author writes that, “We are privileged to be living at a moment when it is possible for the laity and the lower clergy to be taking the steps needed to recover our glorious inheritance.”
Grafenegg has risen to become one of the finest regional European music festivals. The unique blend of nature, architecture, and music makes one feel as though the great romantics are still at home here.
Despite her own failings, Sophia’s grandmother offers us a model of presence and love.
From Habsburg in Vienna to Jefferson at Monticello, this special exhibition focuses on the overriding power of the garden as a pendant in the life of civilized society.
Andrea Chénier‘s high melodrama and appealing theme of feminine self-sacrifice has proved more lasting and appealing than the true story it is based on—but this is how opera thrives.
History is a story that is at once true and false, a story in which truth sometimes requires us to record a falsehood, if only so we do not forget that a falsehood was once told.
A new book traces the words and deeds of eight leaders who devoted their lives to their fellow Jews.
A segment of Spanish society—the Left’s leaders, if not their voters—has been too quick to paper over the difference between lawful politics and violence.
Bernanos and Poulenc dare us to ask why men of differing opinions would condemn their fellow men to death, leading to new waves of chaos and destruction.
Robbins’ study of the Golden Age might be called a work of skepticism in that it “refuses to create a unitary narrative, a single interpretive vision” of the period, but instead dissects it piecemeal under a microscope.
On opening night, Cecilia Bartoli was awarded Austria’s highest operatic honor, the title of Kammersängerin by the Austrian government.
Much discussion of Yang’s work has focused on the ways that he expertly depicts the interplay (and clash) between East and West within the context of deeply human stories. However, far less ink has been spilled over the role that Christianity has in this interplay.
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