Chords and discords
Musical excellence can blunt the edge of political disputes
A maestro of detail long before Leonardo
How Jan van Eyck changed the trajectory of Western art
A harness for history
Thomas Piketty is haunted by the failures of social democracy, but his own ideas for fixing society are far from novel
Dangerous tribes
A chilling, compulsive investigation into online extremist groups
A hunger for the truth
A film about the the Holodomor’s exposure should prompt debate on the famine-denialist Walter Duranty
A marriage of Brahms and Wagner
Before his journey into atonality, Schoenberg composed the surprisingly accessible "Verklärte Nacht"
Brandt and Moore: The gentleman and the miner
Based on the impulse to look at everything afresh, Modernist photography could not help but deliver a jumble of perspectives, on both sides of the Atlantic
An explosive error
When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Austrian writer Peter Handke—infamous for defending the regime of Slobodan Milošević—the world was astonished
A multitude of dignities
Are human rights dependent on “human dignity”—and what does “human dignity” even mean?
A writer diminished
"Defenders of Leonard Woolf’s wife, Virginia, have turned her into a heroine, even a victim, and diminished his formidable achievements"