
Welcome to Germany
Since Angela Merkel admitted 1.2 million refugees in 2015 and 2016, the dire predictions about their impact on the country have not materialized.
April 29, 2021 issue
Flacking for Facebook
How perfect that a failed Liberal Democrat should be leading the PR effort to persuade us that liberal democracy is safe with the social media giant.
April 13, 2021
The Companionship of Nature
Running like a troubled thread through Helen Macdonald’s Vesper Flights is the tension between a profound human need for the solace of animals and the acknowledgment, even the insistence, that they are creatures apart.
April 29, 2021 issue
Words and Other Violence
Much of the force of Jenny Erpenbeck’s fiction flows from the contrast between the glacial detachment of her tone and the roiling themes of German history that she explores.
April 29, 2021 issue
Lincoln’s Rowdy America
A new biography captures the cultural jumble of great literature, dirty jokes, and everything in between that went into the self-making of the foremost self-made American.
April 29, 2021 issue
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Arts
What Next, After Protest?: An Interview with Ephraim Asili
April 11, 2021
‘What the Hell Can I Call Myself Except British?’
April 29, 2021 issue
A Praise House of Many Mansions
April 29, 2021 issue
When Poverty Became Profane
April 29, 2021 issue
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