The Magazine

A review of a Metropolitan Opera production of Modest Moussorgsky’s “Boris Godunov,” with new orchestration by Karol Rathaus and an English translation by John Gutman.

Rival champions, aging warhorses, and jet-setting thoroughbreds animate a Southern racing season that’s shifting from dirt to turf.

At Steinway Hall, Caedmon’s founders capture Sir Osbert Sitwell reading new poems, pioneering a book-and-record experiment.

A review of “The Story of Three Loves,” directed by Gottfried Reinhardt and Vincente Minnelli, starring Moira Shearer, James Mason, Ethel Barrymore, Kirk Douglas, Pier Angeli, Ricky Nelson, and Leslie Caron.

A review of “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln,” edited by Roy P. Basler, and an assessment of Abraham Lincoln’s character, intellect, style, and religious-political vision.

A review of a production of Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” at City Center, directed by Albert Marre, with Luther Adler as Shylock and Margaret Phillips as Portia.

A tour of spring’s new look—from Bergdorf Goodman sheaths to Vera De Wahl linens, Elizabeth Arden lingerie, and Scottish tartans.

A city remade in neon and concrete wrestles with its austere past, from Kabuki stages to _bonsai_ nurseries and bustling bars.

Criticism of the design, symbolism, planning, and interior of the United Nations General Assembly Building, the Conference Building, and the Secretariat headquarters complex.

Inside the whirlwind schedule, family life, and civic zeal of Mrs. Oswald B. Lord, the U.N.’s new human-rights representative.

How J. K. Lasser turned bewildered taxpayers, a yellow paperback, and a torrent of “sloppy” prose into a tax-conscious America.

A war photographer turned “Moulin Rouge” consultant explains how filters, painters’ tricks, and “fictional color” transformed John Huston’s film.

Spring arrives with the Coronation on the horizon, as London weighs electoral reform, taxed greyhounds, and Bertrand Russell’s fiction.