Forget, for a moment, the legend and the lustre. If you knew nothing about Riccardo Muti’s half-century of history with Verdi’s Messa da Requiem for the writer-patriot Alessandro Manzoni – he first ...

A new book by Phil Tinline recounts the history of a 1967 hoax and its ongoing influence as source code for antigovernment conspiracy theories. By Jeff Shesol Hallie Rubenhold’s “Story of a ...

Christopher Summerfield’s book “These Strange New Minds” offers a lucid intellectual history of AI and argues that chatbots are more than clever copycats. Joshua Hammer’s “The ...

This week, Kristin Hannah answers our questions, what's she reading now, what would she take to a desert island, what gave her the reading bug, and what book left her cold? There are currently ...

Verdi poured all his skill in depicting the extremes of human emotion into his Requiem. There is violence in the ‘Dies Irae’, power and grandeur in the ‘Tuba Mirum’, heralded by eight trumpets. Joyful ...