Rachmaninoff wanted to recreate the world as it once was. He was the last of the great Romantic composers. Fortunately, there are still pianists and conductors and listeners and critics such as Fiona ...

Fang Fang’s newly translated novel uncovers the brutal, buried history of land reform in China.

Unfortunately, the government of China learned the wrong lessons from the failures of the Great Leap Forward ... by Mao and his associates as a “Cultural Revolution,” and the disruption ...

Then and now, the definition of patriotism summons complicated feelings that speak to politics, partisanship, and how love of ...

In the late 18th century, the Enlightenment philosophers Voltaire and Diderot celebrated the modernisation of Russia carried out under Catherine the Great as an advance ... via enlightened despotism, ...

While its cultural significance resonates worldwide, it holds a particularly deep connection to Great Neck and the broader Gold Coast of Long Island, areas that directly influenced the setting and ...

The Renaissance artist’s frescoes in Orvieto, Italy’s San Brizio Chapel comprise dynamic, monumental and fiercely realistic ...

Just when they should be at their peak, experienced workers in creative fields find that their skills are all but obsolete.

His cartoons have appeared in The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times. He is ...

The Kolomenskiy Bakery and Confectionery Holding (BKH) acquired JSC Proletarian Bakery. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, the Kommersant newspaper writes. Investment banker Ilya Shumov, ...

Depardieu, 76, is accused of assaulting a set dresser and an assistant director during the 2021 filming of “Les Volets Verts” ...