A Reporter at Wit’s End: The Firebombing of Japan, “The New Yorker,” and St. Clair McKelway
"The New Yorker" editors were delighted to find they had a reporter working, living, and relaxing with the commanders and the bomber crews destroying...
"The New Yorker" editors were delighted to find they had a reporter working, living, and relaxing with the commanders and the bomber crews destroying...
Patrick CoffeySep 3, 2015
The Wende Museum's exhibition "Face to Face" juxtaposes official products of Socialist Realism with works by artists working outside of Communist...
Oleg IvanovAug 29, 2015
Andrew Hartman's detailed account of the extended "shouting match" about America's identity, a.k.a. the culture wars.
Jacqui ShineAug 17, 2015
Michel Kwass on the populist history of smuggling contraband goods - tobacco and calico - in France before the French Revolution.
Patrick HydeAug 5, 2015
Janice Nimura on the lives of three extraordinary Japanese women, from samurai times to America to contemporary Japan.
Miriam KingsbergJul 9, 2015
John Leigh’s Touché: The Duel in Literature surveys literary duels from Pierre Corneille’s Le Cid to Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain.
Ivan KreilkampJun 28, 2015
“A scholarly whodunit” of Michelangelo, Nazis, and safe-cracking
Emily J. LevineJun 25, 2015
Two men find themselves on opposite ends of a battlefield. One was General Andrew Jackson — the other was John Ross, a fighter with the Cherokee...
Andrew ZaleskiJun 19, 2015
It's the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta.
Stephen RohdeJun 14, 2015
Historian Jochen Hellbeck talks about the way nations remember the battle for Stalingrad, and what this says about nationalism and collective memory.
Adrian BonenbergerJun 6, 2015
A review of Kate Brown's "Dispatches from Dystopia," which tells stories of Chernobyl and other corrupted, polluted areas.
Colin DickeyMay 31, 2015
In "Invisible," Philip Ball addresses the relationship between scientific inquiry and our beliefs about the world beyond our senses.
Andrew Benedict-NelsonMay 21, 2015
James Boswell’s restless curiosity and his desire to sit at the feet of greatness and listen made him the ur-TED talk audience member.
Josh EmmonsMay 13, 2015
From 1950 to 1953, the air war in Korea became one of the most destructive, relentless, and forgotten American scorched earth campaigns.
Geoffrey CainMay 11, 2015
"Modernism was not an idea, not a singular and well-formed position. The multiplicity and heterogeneity of its dimensions have to be addressed."
Johanna DruckerMay 3, 2015
That a public man such as Thomas Cromwell can be understood so differently by writers acting in good faith is due to a number of factors: his...
Josh EmmonsMay 1, 2015
MIDWAY THROUGH the new graphic novel Battle Lines: A Graphic History of the Civil War, authors Jonathan Fetter-Vorm and Ari Kelman interrupt their...
Kenyon GradertApr 27, 2015
"A man who wears so many masks is always tempted to reveal who he is."
Tom TeicholzApr 18, 2015
War-making states still build on the legacy of World War II bombers.
Susan R. GrayzelApr 8, 2015
Dublin’s duality, as Dickson subtly instructs us, remains the key to the city’s identity, from its muddy beginnings to its world-stage present.
Robert CreminsApr 7, 2015
Stabbing a man to death isn’t easy.
Nick OwcharApr 5, 2015
What was “pro-life” about a movement that so easily discarded a human being and valorized her death — to save a cluster of cells?
Elizabeth WinklerApr 1, 2015
We all miss Poland and we all long to return — although not in the same way that we want to return to Israel. For most Jews, Poland remains a...
Lisa BitelMar 31, 2015
Constitutional reformers, religious dissenters, and simple political enemies.
Andrew Benedict-NelsonMar 30, 2015