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A Winner Over Time: An Interview with Martin Reiner
José Vergara interviews Martin Reiner about his muse and predecessor, Ivan Blatný.
Around the World
"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
The Footmen of Liberalism
An unauthorized history of the world’s most vaunted digest of power shows the fatal assumptions within its magisterial voice.
Celebrate with a Feast: A Conversation with Irina Georgescu
A new cookbook of Romanian recipes from a celebrated food writer.
Holocaust Testimony Beyond the Frame
Marianne Hirsch looks at two new books about Claude Lanzmann's "Shoah."
Slow Apocalypse
John Hay reviews Mark O’Connell’s “Notes from an Apocalypse.”
Pandemic Narratives and the Historian
Alex Langstaff interviews an international group of leading historians of public health, epidemics, and disaster science.
Collectors and Their Collections: Archer Huntington and The Hispanic Society of America
On the “Glory of Spain” exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
“Ah the Old Questions, the Old Answers”: Losing to Win in Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame”
Robert Zaretsky moves through Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame” as the pandemic takes its course.
Can Words Help Heal a Fractured Nation?: A Visit to the Jaipur Literature Festival
Parul Kapur Hinzen reports from the world’s largest literary festival.
“Don’t Regret. Remember”: Frictions of History and Gender in Céline Sciamma’s “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”
The French director’s brilliant 2019 film powerfully captures the paradoxes of female creativity and agency.
Making a Mess of the World: On Hao Jingfang’s “Vagabonds”
Hao Jingfang’s “Vagabonds” considers the reflexive matrix of Chinese and Western cultural perceptions.
The Things We Love
A gallery of portraits of a Sephardic Jewish family in the 20th century.
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