Asterix and the White Iris Brings Back a Bit of Bite
The new Asterix is not disappointing, but it nonetheless fails by being too conventional.
The new Asterix is not disappointing, but it nonetheless fails by being too conventional.
Even after giving away billions of dollars, Gates seems to have become no less poor. How does he do it?
A nearly all-Hungarian cast delivered the production with a skill that should, in most cases, make the singers internationally famous.
Bourke’s defence of the German philosopher is historically thorough and philosophically compelling.
In our nihilistic age, Boito’s Mefistofele may be primed for a comeback.
The British politician’s conservative vision for Britain is far richer in its confidence than its advice.
In Sonnez les Matines, humor most truly speaks of weighty matters.
17th century Dutch painter Frans Hals, subject of an exhibition at London’s National Gallery, transformed portraiture into a recognized artform.
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.
Counter Wokecraft makes the case that woke strategies, “while tricky and manipulative,” are also “comprehensible, predictable, and able to be countered.”
Stories—whether of real or fictional events—hold a unique place in human life, delighting, causing wonder, captivating the imagination, purging the emotions, and even encouraging moral growth.
The recital left the overall impression of a solid and earnest singer with strong ambitions that may well be fulfilled in the march of time.
Curated by Eric Dubois, this exhibit holds a looking glass up to the earliest works of Blake and Mortimer’s creator, portraying him as a modern-day Homeric storyteller.
The reason why Lance Morrow matters is that he may well be the last living bridge to a bygone age in journalism.
While Biggar ultimately concludes that progressive discussions of colonialism are flawed and overly simplistic, he does not fall into the opposite extreme in favor of every aspect of Western colonialism.
Thanks to authors like Hazony, we can see more clearly the deceptive arguments of those who condemn the nation-state to either extinction by the verdict of history, or to extermination by means of a brutal imperial policy.
Following an unfortunate trend in European stage production, Warlikowski reduces Macbeth to a psychiatric diagnosis, with the characters exploring their pathologies in the confines of a mental institution.
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.