De Kooning was born in Rotterdam in 1904. As a youth he studied for eight years at a conservative academy of art, where the curriculum included De Stijl due to the Dutch art movement’s practical ...

Warren Frye on “The Last Peasant War,” by Jakub S. Beneš.

American and European elites set themselves up as bulwarks against the allegedly toxic legacy of Western civilization and ...

I recently interviewed the novel’s author, Jennifer Hofmann, who lives in Berlin. Mark Judge: First of all, tell me a little ...

B or n in Queens, New York, David was a certifiable “red-diaper baby.” His parents were both members of the American ...

On new volumes & editions by Medbh McGuckian, Paul Muldoon, Brad Leithauser, Dorothy Parker & Claudia Emerson.

Suzanna Murawski on “Ravelstein,” Marsden Hartley & a new canvas adhesive.

So, yes: Buckley was the founding father of modern conservatism, the man who legitimized conservatism as an intellectual movement, shaped a generation, rolled back the Red Sea and made it dry land for ...

So it was also with South Asia. In 1946, Sir Francis Tucker, the head of Eastern Command, proposed a British protectorate ...

Formerly known as Elihu Yale; William Cavendish, the second Duke of Devonshire; Lord James Cavendish; Mr. Tunstal; and an ...

In Paris, after a few years of study with the leading portrait painter of the era, Carolus-Duran, and intermittent attendance ...