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After the fall of Berlin the Soviets concealed their discovery of Hitler’s remains, leaving the Western Allies scrambling for evidence that he was dead.

To the Editors: Catherine Nicholson has written a wonderful account of Beloved Son Felix , evidently a wonderful book, which I look forward to reading in

To the Editors: Orville Schell’s whitewashing of Chiang Kai-shek, as though he was merely a well-meaning patriot whose character flaws “were sadly

Call it “the art of the self-deal. ” You sue yourself, announce a hasty “settlement” when the judge questions whether you are engaged in collusion (with

The young artist Emily Kraus is preoccupied with the question of whether machines can be surrogates for an artist’s unconscious.

Magdalena Suarez Frimkess, who works with ceramics, has spent decades tapping unlikely sources for wisdom.

Even in a country that has made a pastime of its declamatory public letters, this one seems to stand out. It’s not every day that a list of signatories

Pete Hegseth is the product of an essentially American ethos—which means we have no choice but to ask what to do with him, and what to do with ourselves.

As President Trump’s erratic negotiations with Iran drag on and oil prices continue to rise, the United States’ ostensible ethical justification for the

During the first hundred days of Donald Trump’s second presidency, while he was devastating American society with mass deportations and shredding the

In September 1507 the Portuguese conquistador Afonso de Albuquerque sailed his small fleet to a point off the coast of Hormuz Island, in the narrow

In Love, two women fight until they understand their fighting as a pretense to touch. The fighting is a kind of intimacy, an annual rite of slapping,

“Most memoirists Botox out their own imperfections, but celebrity ghostwriters tend to do the full facelift. ”

In his decades of writing about pop music, Jon Savage came to understand its liberatory power.