Suzanna Murawski on “The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt,” at the Jewish Museum, New York.

Paul du Quenoy on a revival of Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades at the Vienna State Opera, starring Anna Netrebko.

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He plays fast and loose with the chronology, and the uninitiated could get lost in the long series of failed rebellions and ...

The impressive collection on exhibit at Beit Avi Chai, together with an insightful catalogue, recovers an important artistic ...

Abigail Anthony on Christopher Wheeldon’s Alices Adventures in Wonderland, performed by the Royal Ballet.

That’s all done for us, a kind of emotional outsourcing we might call “moral kitsch.” For Clement Greenberg, kitsch is ...

Every culture has a literature that is to some extent subterranean. Much of it deserves to stay there. But certain pieces occasionally bubble to the surface. Invariably this happens because the work ...

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Y ev geny Zamyatin wrote We in 1920, during the Russian Civil War. Composed at the dawn of the Soviet era—a not-so-distant mirror of our own troubled and dangerous times— We was first published in the ...