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The Last of Her Kind
Angela Merkel emerged from the ruins of the Eastern bloc as a spectacular example of the way the collapse of an old regime might create a much more benign sense of opportunity.
The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
by Kati Marton
April 7, 2022 issue
Scenes of the Crime
In his new novels, John Banville is writing the kind of history that is the novelist’s proper concern—the history of a trauma that’s fully contained within the character he has invented.
Snow
by John Banville
April in Spain
by John Banville
February 24, 2022 issue
The Lie of Nation Building
From the very beginning, the problem with the US involvement in Afghanistan lay essentially in the deficits in American democracy.
The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
by Craig Whitlock
The American War in Afghanistan: A History
by Carter Malkasian
October 7, 2021 issue
Freedom for Sale
In the 1950s and 1960s, a new generation of American artists began to think of advertising and commercial imagery as the new avant-garde.
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
by Louis Menand
July 22, 2021 issue
A Moral Witness
Martha Gellhorn’s letters to her lovers and intimate friends involve a remarkable feat of reportage on the war within Gellhorn herself
Yours, for Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn’s Letters of Love and War, 1930–1949
edited by Janet Somerville
October 8, 2020 issue
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