Three expatriate Communist families in Moscow find their bonds and beliefs tested as they are scattered by World War II and confront the consequential ideologies of the twentieth century.

Fleming's famed undergraduate course on Chaucer drew hundreds of students to McCosh Hall, year after year, decade after decade.

The kouros in the Met was almost certainly a soldier: he has stepped out of his armour into his skin. The idea of...

One of the most provocative subgenres of 1970s exploitation cinema, nunsploitation explores the collision of sex and religious dogma through stories of desperately horny women of the cloth.

Dans Les Écrivains collaborateurs. Engagement, stigmate et postérité, Tristan Rouquet retrace la trajectoire de plus de deux cents écrivains avant, pendant et après la collaboration.

A failing Ron DeSantis higher ed experiment gets a boost

Meet the Czech designer who shaped how generations of readers encountered poetry.

In midcentury Bamako, sitting for a portrait in Seydou Keïta’s studio was a defining assertion of identity.

Rebecca Solnit considers the photographer’s recent work tracing histories of shipping routes and their impact on the natural environment.

Roger Caillois and Claude Lévi-Strauss both spent the war in exile from France. Lévi-Strauss had done fieldwork in Brazil in the 1930s, but when he left France he went through Martinique and was de…

With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.

Matriarchs, absent fathers and troubled childhoods: 2025 was the year French literature focused on family, says writer Anne-Laure Pineau

Il Centre Pompidou di Parigi dedica una sala permanente ad Andrea Branzi, protagonista del design, artista e pensatore. Abitare l'ha intervistato

En mémoire de Michael Burawoy

This article reflects on the potential of the rapidly emerging literary genre of autosociobiography to extend analyses of the personal experience and feelings a...

Viel wird geredet über die, die für die AfD stimmen, Schriftstellerin Juli Zeh lebt mit ihnen im Dorf. Ein Gespräch über Rechtspopulisten, Talkshows und durchtanzte Nächte.

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René Groebli took portraits of Charlie Chaplin and Walt Disney and pioneered new modes of photography. But it was his tender, erotic pictures taken in a Paris hotel room in the 50s that really caused ...

New York’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani plans to absorb individual costs into the collective life of the city, but whether that will be enough is an open question.

With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.

France’s rule over Algeria from 1830 to 1962 is marked by mass killings and large-scale deportation

Susanna Berger’s new book makes a sound argument for the tricksiness of Catholic architecture in 17th-century Rome, writes William Aslet

At least twice, Germany has had among the most influential and important mainstream film industries in the world. First, famously, between 1919 and 1933, German directors, in what was called, not alwa...

The Full Video and Bari Weiss's 'Memo'

Is Europe in decline? 2025 was certainly a rough year. Europe is divided and struggling to concert its position both on financial support for Ukraine and trade policy (Mercosur). On trade policy and e...

Join Marilynne Robinson for a four-session webinar on the Old Testament

Bénédicte Savoy is Europe’s leading advocate for the repatriation of cultural heritage. Now, in the wake of a shocking heist, she’s bringing her ideas to the Louvre.