Kyle Smith on “Just in Time,” “Ginger Twinsies” & “Gene & Gilda.” ...

A Life of Leibniz in Seven Pivotal Days,” by Michael Kempe, translated by Marshall Yarbrough.

Emma Richards on “Jane Austen in 41 Objects,“ by Kathryn Sutherland.

Age of Elegance” at the King’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London.

Brown, sixty-seven, has long been known as one of Britain’s finest satirists and comic writers through his work for Private ...

Barry Strauss on the life of the ancient Jewish historian.

On Boccaccio: A Biography, by Marco Santagata, translated by Emlyn Eisenach.

These aperçus appear not in her novels, but in letters to two favorite relatives, her niece Anna Austen Lefroy and nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh, when they were in their teens and interested in ...

Henrik Bering on the components of successful command.

there is a land fertile and fair, encompassed by the waves and blessed with a multitude of human beings past all counting, ...

As an art historian in the field of Dutch and Flemish paintings, I was driven by instinct to dismiss this book on its spurious contentions and to defend vigorously the authenticity of this great ...

Heather Mac Donald on the new ballet by Lincoln Jones & Alma Deutscher, premiered by American Contemporary Ballet.