On “The Day is Gone: 100 Years of New Objectivity,” at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

The first work was Ein Heldenleben, “A Hero’s Life,” by Richard Strauss. Who’s the hero of that one? Why, the composer ...

Natasha Sumner does not answer that question in her latest book, Heroes of the Gale: A History of Fionn and the Fianna .She ...

Paul du Quenoy on a revival of “Boris Godunov,” at the Royal Opera.

The Ligeti was his Étude No. 4, “Fanfares,” from 1985. It was light and limpid, and flavored with jazz. The Liszt was the Rhapsodie espagnole, from 1858. It is jaw-droppingly difficult. And Mr. Liu ...

On Democracy,” edited by David Bromwich.

George Loomis on “Un ballo in maschera,” at the Paris Opera.

But Alfred Chester’s 1962 complaint in Commentary was still largely valid decades later: “Updike has no sense of invention, ...

David Walsh on “The Olavo de Carvalho Reader.” ...

This led to his being regarded with some embarrassment by his family, who subscribed to what St Aubyn calls the “Cornish ...