Kyle Smith on “Just in Time,” “Ginger Twinsies” & “Gene & Gilda.” ...

A Life of Leibniz in Seven Pivotal Days,” by Michael Kempe, translated by Marshall Yarbrough.

These aperçus appear not in her novels, but in letters to two favorite relatives, her niece Anna Austen Lefroy and nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh, when they were in their teens and interested in ...

Age of Elegance” at the King’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London.

As an art historian in the field of Dutch and Flemish paintings, I was driven by instinct to dismiss this book on its spurious contentions and to defend vigorously the authenticity of this great ...