
The Spy in the Jeu de Paume
The detailed information gathered by the French curator Rose Valland about the Nazis’ looting of artworks made it possible for the Allies to recover tens of thousands of them after World War II.
May 29, 2025 issue
‘There’s Nothing for Me Here’
What caused Venezuela’s collapse, and who is responsible? A recent memoir tells the story as so many families have lived it.
May 29, 2025 issue
Those Who Live in the Dark
A recent production of The Threepenny Opera recovered the work’s emphasis on subversive anarchism and destructive sexuality.
May 10, 2025
Surely Not?
If the US president were a Manchurian candidate, are there things he would hesitate to do?
May 29, 2025 issue
Pure Thought on Paper
Olivier Schrauwen’s graphic novel Sunday is, like Ulysses, an attempt to capture the thoughts, experiences, memories, musings, and mania of one man over a single day. It is also, like Ulysses, a masterpiece.
May 29, 2025 issue
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Stephen Spender: Death in Jerusalem“Responsibility would have consisted of a day-to-day effort to keep one’s mind free of that banality, from the acceptance of those abstractions which first produced the mind and then the action of an Eichmann. The meaning of this, not only for Germany, but for all of us should be clear.”
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