In his experiences and chronicles of the great ideological battles of the twentieth century, Curzio Malaparte was a shape-shifter—pitiless, clinical, cynical, unsentimental, indifferent to morality and idealism.
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As Guatemala and El Salvador were being torn apart by violent US-backed regimes, tens of thousands of children—many of them war orphans, others forcibly taken from their birth parents—were being adopted overseas.
The quest to fathom the riotous diversity of nature is absorbingly told in a virtual double biography of the great taxonomist Carl Linnaeus and his contemporary, the count of Buffon.
After the fall of France many writers and artists fleeing the Nazis ended up in Marseille, desperately seeking a way out of occupied Europe.
Asked about an ICE ad featuring the song “We’ll Have Our Home Again, ” DHS said: “Not everything you dislike is ‘Nazi propaganda. ’”
Although his own writings are little known today, Malcolm Cowley became one of the great champions of American literature.
In an illiberal world, the Turkish opposition can no longer convince voters that democracy alone is a source of strength.
What do the far right’s fluctuating fortunes in Poland suggest about countries seeking an off-ramp from autocracy?