I love the amorous mayhem of Handel’s operas, but have always had my doubts about his oratorios, especially the Messiah. First there’s the bossy compulsion to stand during the “Hallelujah” chorus, just... Read more »
Haruki Murakami’s new novel, “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” is also a return to earlier works: a novella he published in Japan, in 1980, when he was thirty-one, and the novel... Read more »
Sally Rooneyâs breakout book, Normal People â more than 1m copies sold in the UK alone â proved her to be a peerless creator of flesh and blood characters with a keen... Read more »
Faith in Rights explores why and how Christian nongovernmental organizations conduct human rights work at the United Nations. The book interrogates the idea that the secular and the religious are distinct categories,... Read more »
Corps de ballet literally means the “body” of the ballet company, and it refers to the group of dancers who are not principals. Another large group of dancers puts together portfolios of... Read more »
In January 2002, during his State of the Union address, President George W Bush said that in “four short months” the US had “rallied a great coalition, captured, arrested and rid the... Read more »