NEW EUROPEAN
JULY 15. 2025
Seventy-five years ago, western troops went into Korea and the 20th century’s forgotten war began. The brutality and suffering cost five million lives – and achieved almost nothing
A new proposal to restrict the use of trial by jury could fundamentally undermine the justice system
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The creator and star of a new postwar drama talks literature, the second world war and unconventional Hollywood marriages
Though the word ‘swain’ may itself be obsolete in English today, there are still traces of it hanging around in our modern English language
A new telescope, 2,650 metres up on a mountainside in Chile, is one of the most ambitious astronomical projects of our times
She witnessed extreme horror. The photographs she took and the words she wrote both made and broke her
A brief, species-wide experiment in trying to connect everyone together is coming to an end
He promised to end America’s wars abroad. Instead, he is starting one at home
Calleja is part of a new, very different generation of translators, as her experimental memoir makes clear
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France used to revere its intellectuals – but the men moaning about ‘le wokisme’ are intellectual lightweights
Eight years after his death, a reissue of Kitchen Confidential still burns with wit and rage
The country’s food scene is generally underwhelming – but a city on the Caribbean coast is a vibrant hub of innovation and local pride