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.

This new book by a senior lecturer at the University of St. Andrews is a bracing, short but expansive, study of poetic expressions of the fall of two fabled civilizations.

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.

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.