Woman, Queen, and Legend,” by Lindy Grant.

Much about E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776–1822) can be discerned from his name. Born Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann, he later replaced “Wilhelm” with “Amadeus” as both a tribute to Mozart and a declaration ...

An Ode to Finland,” at the Petit Palais, Paris.

We wonder if Zohran Mamdani, New York’s thirty-four-year-old socialist mayor-elect, is familiar with the wit and wisdom of Margaret Thatcher. We know that he has gone to the school of Frantz Fanon, ...

Like his great predecessor Sir Walter Scott, another dreamer, Stevenson was excluded from the ranks by disability. His fragile frame would have horrified any commanding officer. (In Scott’s case, it ...

By 1920 the sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, the founder of the Whitney Museum and a close friend of Cushing, garnered ...

William Logan on recently published poetry by Rosanna Warren, Moya Cannon, John Koethe, Rebecca Watts, Henri Cole & Wendy ...

The activist refrain of doing the work is familiar enough. The “scholarly activity of reading texts together,” of course, ...

On Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World, by Sudhir Hazareesingh.

T he advent of Zohran Mamdani reminds us that we have written about the death and rebirth of socialism many times over the ...

The new White House State Ballroom, to be constructed over the former East Wing, is the latest case in point. Trump’s critics ...