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‘Norman Lewis​ wrote about himself that “travel came before writing. There was a time when I felt that all I. ..

The great majority of the 350,000 ‘Soviet’ displaced persons were ‘Soviet’ in Soviet eyes but often not in. ..

Universities’ reliance on international students is only the most recent attempt to solve a broader problem, one that. ..

Pope Leo, thus far in his life, has been skilled at placing himself in the middle whenever there are warring factions. ...

It’s​ puzzling, unsettling even, to see ‘free speech’ rearing its head in public debate again, rousing passions. ..

Hayek suspected that nothing about the vindication of neoliberalism was likely to be straightforward. Some magical. ..

Often thoughtless about other people, Mondrian was also thoughtless about – or uninterested in – himself. His ego. ..

Macunaíma has become a myth. It says something complicated about Brazil, but also about what modernism meant. And. ..

Victor Hugo​ was excessive, in life as in literature. Cocteau said that ‘Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was. ..

Terrence Malick​ is the quietest of American movie directors. He gives no interviews; he avoids talkshows and festival. ..

Detail validates a fiction, giving the impression of a world that can be priced and measured, touched and tasted. But. ..

A champion self-advertiser, maven of the brag and the humblebrag, Whitman announces in the first pages of Specimen Days. ..

Cannae made Hannibal more than just another name in the endless list of Rome’s enemies, but the elephants helped too. ...

Even if they had been appeasers, most Conservatives accepted the patriotic necessity of the war, but had many different. ..