The Never-Healing Wound
Intimate details of the people who cared for the 18.5 million wounded in World War I.
Intimate details of the people who cared for the 18.5 million wounded in World War I.
Susan R. GrayzelAug 20, 2014
ERI HOTTA'S lucid analysis of Japan’s march to war against the United States in December 1941 resonates uncannily with Europe’s lemming-like leap to...
Jeff KingstonAug 16, 2014
Annalisa Quinn in conversation with Mary Beard, a one-of-a-kind classicist.
Annalisa QuinnAug 13, 2014
Was World War I, which started 100 years ago today, after all, inevitable?
Robert ZaretskyAug 4, 2014
A collaboration between a grandfather and grandson traces the history of India and Burma through personal memories.
Anjali VaidyaAug 2, 2014
The 1964 Civil Rights Act was a triumph of one vision — one history — of one America over another.
Zach DorfmanMay 17, 2014
Women who participated in the Holocaust, according to Wendy Lower’s new book Hitler’s Furies “were not marginal sociopaths,” but ordinary German...
Alexis CoeDec 20, 2013
Colin Marshall interviews Pulitzer Prize winner A. Scott Berg about Wilson, his new biography of Woodrow Wilson. ¤
Colin MarshallDec 10, 2013
DONEGAL IS DIFFERENT[1]. One of the largest of Ireland's 32 counties, far-flung from Dublin, on a map it looks like the island’s scraggy forehead...
Robert CreminsDec 7, 2013
The origins of Pakistan in the idea of a Muslim homeland.
Hannah Harris GreenDec 2, 2013
Wearing the wrong hat could get you killed.
Kaya GençNov 11, 2013
Ben Kafka is a historian, critic, psychoanalyst-in-training, and author of a history of paperwork, The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of...
Alex CarpJul 26, 2013
Triptych image: Gerhard Katz, photographer unknown, 1926 Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins...
Jan MieszkowskiJul 21, 2013
LIKE TOM REISS, author of The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, an older generation of American readers...
Robert ZaretskyJul 19, 2013
On realizing a favorite cultural nightmare: the destruction of NYC
David BielloNov 24, 2012
On three English translations of 'The Iliad'
John FarrellOct 30, 2012
THIS PAST WINTER AT the California Antiquarian Book Fair in Pasadena, a London bookseller offered for sale a copy of a book called the Rudimentum...
Bruce WhitemanJun 4, 2012
as any devotee might tell you, the woman makes a slippery subject.
Eli DinerMar 26, 2012
In his latest book, God is Red, Liao continues his study of the bottom rung of society by focusing on underground Christian communities in China.
Albert WuMar 8, 2012
While the cannibal was a prize specimen for theories of the state and human nature, he also posed a grave problem.
Steven ShapinMar 7, 2012
The only way to get to real cultural diversity is to tell stories in which the diversity is real.
John RomanoFeb 17, 2012
In The Swerve, however, death is nothing, and people aren’t much either.
Swati PandeyFeb 17, 2012
AT THE PEAK OF HIS CAREER and in the full ripeness of his abundant talents, the intellectual historian Tony Judt was struck down by Lou Gehrig's...
G.J. MeyerFeb 8, 2012
Wading waist-deep into this hoard of history, smothered in the dust of centuries — he called it "genizaschmutz" — Schechter sifted for four weeks.
Benjamin BalintFeb 5, 2012