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Why World War II Remains So Seductive to Novelists For Writing About Good and Evil

Why World War II Remains So Seductive to Novelists For Writing About Good and Evil

Kristin Beck in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | September 13, 2022

On Claude Simon’s Classic Nouveau Roman and the Possibilities of Fragmented Narrative

On Claude Simon’s Classic Nouveau Roman and the Possibilities of Fragmented Narrative

Jerry W. Carlson Deconstructs The Flanders Road

By Jerry W. Carlson | July 27, 2022

How Josephine Baker Learned to Hate the Nazis Before Most of America

How Josephine Baker Learned to Hate the Nazis Before Most of America

Damien Lewis on an American Icon's Transformation from Dancer to Spy

By Damien Lewis | July 13, 2022

How the White Ecology of Disaster Inscribed Itself Into the Human Experience

How the White Ecology of Disaster Inscribed Itself Into the Human Experience

Daisy Hildyard Examines the Impact of Ecological Violence on the Nonhuman World

By Daisy Hildyard | June 30, 2022

Why the World Owes America a Great Debt For Its Participation in the Second World War

Why the World Owes America a Great Debt For Its Participation in the Second World War

Dan Hampton in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | June 22, 2022

“Will There Be War in the Morning?” Inside the Home of Italy’s Foreign Minister, August, 1939

“Will There Be War in the Morning?” Inside the Home of Italy’s Foreign Minister, August, 1939

Tilar J. Mazzeo on Galeazzo Ciano and His Wife (and Mussolini’s Daughter) Edda

By Tilar J. Mazzeo | June 21, 2022

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From Mary Churchill’s Diary: An Intimate Glimpse of World War II

By Mary Churchill | June 10, 2022

How (And Why) Primo Levi’s Work Was Once Rejected

By Marco Belpoliti and Clarissa Botsford | May 26, 2022

Is Croatia Going the Reactionary Route of Poland and Hungary?

By Robert D. Kaplan | April 15, 2022

The Many Wars Within the Last Great War

The Many Wars Within the Last Great War

Richard Overy on the Second World War Made and the Fall of Global Empires

By Richard Overy | April 8, 2022

How America’s Concepts of Disability and Family Were Created by Fascism

How America’s Concepts of Disability and Family Were Created by Fascism

Jennifer Natalya Fink on a Troubled Historical Lineage

By Jennifer Natalya Fink | April 6, 2022

AudioFile’s 2021 Best Audiobooks: An Interview with Louis Ozawa

AudioFile’s 2021 Best Audiobooks: An Interview with Louis Ozawa

Honoring Facing the Mountain and the Best History and Biography Audiobooks

By Behind the Mic | December 9, 2021

Marriage Story: On the Volatile Relationship Between Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway

Marriage Story: On the Volatile Relationship Between Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway

Judith Mackrell Considers the Pair's "Crazy Honeymoon" and Gellhorn On-Assignment in China

By Judith Mackrell | November 3, 2021

Paul Auster on One of the Most Astonishing War Stories in American Literature

Paul Auster on One of the Most Astonishing War Stories in American Literature

Considering the Dark Horrors of Stephen Crane’s “An Episode of War”

By Paul Auster | November 1, 2021

Inhabiting the Mind of the Worst Kind of Collaborator: A Nazi Kapo

Inhabiting the Mind of the Worst Kind of Collaborator: A Nazi Kapo

David Rieff on the Novelist Aleksandar Tišma, Whose Writing Was an Antidote to Banality and Kitsch

By David Rieff | September 20, 2021

Exploring the “Hidden Figures” of the WWII Women’s Army Corps

Exploring the “Hidden Figures” of the WWII Women’s Army Corps

Kaia Alderson on the Books That Shaped Her Debut Novel

By Kaia Alderson | September 3, 2021

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