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

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 ...

Michele H. Bogart on the Taber Sears mural in the New York City Council Chambers ...

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

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

Brooke Allen on “Academic Writing as if Readers Matter,” by Leonard Cassuto.

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

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

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

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

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