The other day I posited a revamped version of the Faustian Question to a friend as a thought experiment. You may be familiar with the story, or at least its more well-known neologism, the Faustian ...

How many who piously lament the “disenchantment” of the secular world would have been able to bear ordinary life in, say, seventeenth-century Europe? We are bereft, the elegy goes, because modern ...

For decades, the soundtrack to White Sox baseball games came courtesy of Nancy Faust. The team’s longtime organist played at more than 3,000 games from 1970 to 2010. This summer, after 15 years in ...

From this first epic invocation in Christopher Marlowe’s 1604 play, Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, the audience is faced with a perplexing arrangement. Doctor Faustus, a man purported to possess ...

“ THE translator,” says Goethe, “ is a person who introduces you to a veiled beauty; he makes you long for the loveliness behind the veil.”In Faust this beauty is the cloud vision of the fourth act in ...