The Vargas Blog

  After many years presenting new American works as an opening night fare, the Metropolitan Opera has gone back to a more traditional time ...

   Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is by no means what its unwieldy title promises to be. It is most definitely not a s...

Superheroes are the loneliest creatures on Earth. They occupy a kind of double life, one in which the mask is not merely a disguise but a ho...

I walked into an early morning showing of Christopher Nolan ’s new film The Odyssey convinced that it is an impossible task to successf...

   Thus far, the Donald Trump administration decision to release previously classified information about UFO (or UAP as we are calling them...

Tristan und Isolde might be Richard Wagner 's greatest work for the stage. A work inspired by the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer an...

  Mikhail Bakhtin , the great Russian literary critic, wrote that the novel as a literary genre is a series of carnivalesque episodes; essen...