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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.

Morgan Meis’s Three Paintings Trilogy is the most exciting new writing about the visual arts to appear in a generation.

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. ”

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.

For two novels that address the escalating violence, rampant corruption, and class resentment poisoning our society, Lee Clay Johnson’s Bloodline and Carl Hiaasen’s Fever Beach are also surprisingly funny.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

The money is being redirected to the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, a government-owned utility with a checkered past.

Drought, low snowpack, and a winter heatwave have left every state in the Western U. S. facing an above-average risk of summer wildfires.

Norway’s electrification plans are framed as climate action, but Sámi leaders say they threaten reindeer herding, land rights, and lack meaningful consultation.

The political left has become simultaneously more mainstream and more radical.

Algiers has historically close ties with Tehran—but it may benefit from the ongoing war.

At the start of the war found Iranian Americans split on the war. Now a NIAC poll found that two-thirds want to see it end.

However, U. S. law dictates that only an act of Congress or a Senate resolution can withdraw Washington from the alliance.

Former officials were arrested over the weekend in connection with a crackdown on protesters last year.