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

His Life and Legend,” by Max Boot.

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 ...

When the ship’s crew cut into Crook Jaw, they found neither Devil nor mermaid inside, just heaps of yellow seaweed. As it ...

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.” ...

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

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

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

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

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