When the ship’s crew cut into Crook Jaw, they found neither Devil nor mermaid inside, just heaps of yellow seaweed. As it ...

She, too, was a writer, and she sent me a short piece that she had published in a medical journal, which I found to be of ...

After Warburg died in obscurity in 1929, devotees tended his flame. His memory was preserved above all within the research ...

Alfred Corn on the letters of Shirley Hazzard & Donald Keene.

His Life and Legend,” by Max Boot.

T he Chinese official, speaking at the Harvard Club in New York just before the turn of the century, was sobbing.

Benjamin Riley on “Sorolla and the Sea,” at the Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach.

Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930,” at the Guggenheim Museum, New York.

Paul Devlin on “The Life of Herod the Great,” by Zora Neale Hurston.

Nicholas Shrimpton on a recent Globe production of “The Taming of the Shrew.” ...

Suisman’s is an uncomplicated narrative that begins in the Civil War, when military music still served purely utilitarian ...

Jeremy Black on “The Price of Victory,” by N. A. M. Rodger.