This lively book by Lady Antonia Fraser more than delivers on the promise of its dramatic title. It was the maneuvering of the early 1830s that began to make the ...

The phrase “All you need is love” dates back to the Summer of Love in 1967. It is typically dismissed as the wishful thinking of the young and callow, but ...

Many critics count it lucky for literature that T. S. Eliot abandoned a career in philosophy. But it was at least as fortunate that he studied the subject in the ...

‘I saw a Rohmer film once,” Gene Hackman’s character in Night Moves famously de­clared. “It was kind of like watching paint dry.” Those two lines, in a movie directed by the ...