In James Vanderbilt’s film Nuremberg, about the trial of the major Nazi war criminals, the questioning of Russell Crowe’s all too charming Hermann Göring becomes a moment of invented high drama.
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Two consummate Virginia Woolf scholars have added more than 1,400 letters to the corpus. On show are charm, careful condolence, generosity, candor about her reading and writing, and a belief that “communication is health. ”
Two writers from different parts and traditions of the island argue with each other and themselves about the advantages and disadvantages of Irish unification.
Nicholas Lemann’s Returning traces his Louisiana family’s gradual distancing across generations from its Jewish faith and his own efforts to reembrace it.
Eurofound’s 2024 working conditions survey charts how digitalisation, demography, and climate change have reshaped European labour over 35 years.
In his renovation of Notre-Dame, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc projected his own Romantic vision of the Middle Ages onto the Gothic cathedral.
George Templeton Strong’s diaries provide the North’s best record of daily passions and woes during its struggle against the South.
Three books raise political and moral questions about human consumption—and the value we place on those who clean up the waste.