Because Our Fathers Lied
"They were no different one from another. They smiled, exchanged comments; hands reached out and grasped … If only we spoke the same language!”
"They were no different one from another. They smiled, exchanged comments; hands reached out and grasped … If only we spoke the same language!”
Patricia M.E. LorcinSep 26, 2014
Fukuyama focuses on political decay by analyzing the slow rot of American institutions.
Zach DorfmanSep 21, 2014
The women, as Abbott expertly portrays them, are not simple-minded diarists accounting for the war in the margins of recipes or reports about social...
Anjali EnjetiSep 12, 2014
The origins of American Bohemia in — where else — Greenwich Village, before the Civil War.
Alexander C. KafkaSep 11, 2014
Primo Levi called Every Man Dies Alone, by Hans Fallada, “the greatest book ever written about German resistance to the Nazis.”
Robert CreminsAug 27, 2014
IN THE PENULTIMATE episode of Band of Brothers, the award-winning World War II miniseries from Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, the soldiers of Easy...
Laya MaheshwariAug 24, 2014
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