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

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

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

Henrik Bering on the components of successful command.

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

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 ...

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 ...

The endowments came into being in 1965, under Lyndon Johnson. It was not until the Nixon years, however, that they got their ...

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.

The more you prefer the primitive,” wrote the art historian E. H. Gombrich, “the less you can become primitive.” In the modern world, simplicity, subjectivity, even crudity can appeal to sophisticated ...

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