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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

His Life and Legend,” by Max Boot.

A History of Writing on Paper,” by Roland Allen.

Here was a creative battle to end all art wars. I feared one unelected agency after another would wear down this aesthetic belligerent to a stalemate, if not gassing him into unconditional surrender.