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

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

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 ...

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.

Henrik Bering on the components of successful command.

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 ...

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

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

James Bowman on the persistence of progressive insanity.

Barry Strauss on the life of the ancient Jewish historian.