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.

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 ...

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

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

Churchill made Herculean efforts to avoid both world wars, the second for almost a decade. Those efforts did not involve the ...

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, ...