On Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed, by Eric H. Cline.

Jay Nordlinger on a concert by the New York Philharmonic, with Thomas Adès conducting and Yuja Wang at the piano.

Benjamin de Almeida Newton is a Ph.D student in the department of Near Eastern Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

“Little Russia” referred approximately to the portion of the Russian Empire that is today within the borders of Ukraine. The ...

Lunching at Oxford in 1967 with Elizabeth Taylor and his Oxford mentor, Nevill Coghill, the actor Richard Burton was ...

Editors’ note: The following passage is excerpted from Book III of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, translated by Aaron ...

Isabel Leonard is an American mezzo-soprano. Our program booklet at Carnegie Hall said “Isabel Leonard, Vocalist.” “Vocalist” ...

Last night, playing the variations, Levit did some crying out and whistling. I can’t remember hearing him do this before. In any event, if Eileen Farrell had “a right to sing the blues,” Igor Levit ...

Stephen E. Benko on Europe’s crisis of confidence.

Born in Venice and orphaned in his early teens, the talented Salieri was discovered by the composer Leopold Gassmann, who ...