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” ...
I made the decision to move to Hungary just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, fully intending to return eventually to the United States, my homeland. But life intervened. I met my wife, who is Czech, ...
Born in Venice and orphaned in his early teens, the talented Salieri was discovered by the composer Leopold Gassmann, who ...