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

A Life of Leibniz in Seven Pivotal Days,” by Michael Kempe, translated by Marshall Yarbrough.

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

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

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 ...

Barry Strauss on the life of the ancient Jewish historian.

Emma Richards on “Jane Austen in 41 Objects,“ by Kathryn Sutherland.

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 ...

Brown, sixty-seven, has long been known as one of Britain’s finest satirists and comic writers through his work for Private ...

On Boccaccio: A Biography, by Marco Santagata, translated by Emlyn Eisenach.

Churchill made Herculean efforts to avoid both world wars, the second for almost a decade. Those efforts did not involve the ...

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