Algis Valiunas

Euripides at war.

In the literature of the First World War, full of the horrors of trench warfare that ravaged a generation even…

Celebrated novelists, like Olympic athletes or Hollywood starlets, come and go.

In a new book, an eminent psychologist with an “unquiet mind” explores why it often takes one to treat another.

Opera has traditionally had little interest in Christian orthodoxy. So when composer Francis Poulenc wrote his masterpiece, Dialogues des Carmélites, the work’s celebration of heroic piety defied the secular spirit of the art form.

T.S. Eliot’s modernist masterpiece.

Seen from our enlightened vantage, Nana might well seem the original torchbearer of all the brave new freedoms. In the end, however, uncharitable Nature undoes her.

The revisionist historians who cast doubt on why Truman made his fateful decision

In America today, a moral chasm exists between those whose bodies and souls yearn for nature in the wild and those who need citified surroundings to feel fully alive.

To suffer schizophrenia is to be born again, into a reality stranger and more excruciating than anything you could imagine while sane.

“Nature has accorded Chateaubriand a sacred fire; his works attest to it. His style is not that of Racine, it is that of the prophet.”

The original gross-out comic.