We owe our acquaintance with this priceless bit of news to Shaw -- who is keeping up with us from Seattle: Like it or not, Western Civiliza...

The schedule for the 2010-11 Met Simulcast season offers two works by Wagner, along with ten other operas, including unusual works of Rossi...

Attempting to slot Nietzsche into a narrow, predictable pigeonhole is a doomed enterprise. With all the dialectical energy directed against ...

It struck me the other day that this blog is nearly at its fifth anniversary. Of course, the classics group has been in existence far longer...

NPR considers the possibility : A little-known poem has been retrieved from the Oxford University archives, which appears to reveal a 17th ...

There's no simple way to talk about The Birth of Tragedy . As many note, it's "a young man's work;" Nietzsche felt com...

Raphael, Transfiguration "Here is the reflection of eternal contradiction, the father of things. (ist hier Widerschein des ewigen ...

Philosophy leaps ahead on tiny toe-holds; hope and intuition lend wings to its feet. Calculating reason lumbers heavily behind, looking for ...

Our brief time with Job left many of us wanting more. It's a book full of extraordinarily rich poetry, a fact which sometimes gets lost ...

Among the many notices of Frank Kermode's passing, this from AKMA  along with this in the Telegraph and this in  S l ate  are memorable...

Classic Lit No Longer Makes The Grade Among Leaders NPR notes that world leaders no longer seem to immerse themselves in the classics - unl...

Mussy sends along this review by Robert Pinsky of The Book in the Renaissance. A snippet: For a time, civil and religious authorities cont...