A beautiful exhibit at the Morgan Library and Museum explores what this ancient figure can teach us about loyalty and redemption.

For Jews, this is the perennial question. A new book explores how Jewish communities around the world are navigating it.

Walt Whitman was pen pals with Emerson, idolized Lincoln, and sought to “sing America” by finding grandeur in the everyday. Two hundred years later, he’s still an American original.

Two quirky comedies about death translate the gloom of French existentialism to the cheerier realm of American television.

On the hundredth anniversary of his birth, Leonard Bernstein’s artistic legacy is as rich and impossible to circumscribe as ever.