‘To Share Is Our Duty’

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. ”

Trying Times: Keeping the Faith as Environmental Gains Are Lost

For people who came of age in the 1970s, it is especially painful to witness the Trump administration’s relentless rollback of hard-won environmental progress. But as the assaults on clean air and water, endangered species, and more mount, a noted ecologist finds reasons for hope.

Misjudgment at Nuremberg

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.

Why We Went Looking for National Defense Areas Along the U. S. Southern Border

The federal government is charging a skyrocketing number of migrants with trespassing in military zones. The boundaries can be hard to pinpoint — even for investigative reporters.

A Devotee of Deception

In Domenico Starnone’s The Old Man by the Sea, an elderly writer looks back across a life in which he has always sought distance and control rather than passion.

Reimagining the Future of Ireland

Two writers from different parts and traditions of the island argue with each other and themselves about the advantages and disadvantages of Irish unification.

Why ‘The West’? : An Exchange

To the Editors: In his review of Georgios Varouxakis’s The West , Yuri Slezkine makes assertions that should unsettle anyone concerned about the fate of

‘A Vast Symphony of Stone’

In his renovation of Notre-Dame, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc projected his own Romantic vision of the Middle Ages onto the Gothic cathedral.