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.

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

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.

Steven McGregor is a veteran of the Iraq War and an Honorary Research Fellow of the University of Buckingham. His most recent ...

Mexico was unusually free-spending and smart in pumping resources into education, public health, and medicine, particularly ...

Of the paper trail left by Marlowe’s life, no document has been more pored over than the report of the inquest into his death ...

Anatoly Grablevsky is the thirteenth and current Hilton Kramer Fellow at The New Criterion.

Fronting this display is Magna Carta, represented by an eighteenth-century engraved facsimile of the 1215 document preserved ...