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To the extent that the German writer Peter Weiss is known in the US, it is for his verse play The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul...

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One of the most beloved episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation is called “Darmok.” On stardate 45047.2, the crew of the USS Enterprise, led by...

To the Editors: Readers of Noah Feldman’s insightful article on the late Justice Antonin Scalia’s influence on the current Supreme Court [“The Battle Over Scalia’s Legacy,”...

We are all Veblenians now. Our understanding of the way people’s acquisitions and activities advertise their superiority—not least in an era of Facebook show-offs and Instagrammable...

In 1917, when Europe seemed to lie in ruins, Max Weber wrote an influential essay with the misleadingly dull title “Parliament and Government in a Reconstructed...

Just after Frank O’Hara’s untimely death in 1966, John Ashbery made a case for the poet’s enduring significance. In spite of only modest success during his...

The historian Steve Mason has called The Jewish War by Flavius Josephus “perhaps the most influential non-biblical text of Western history.”* This may seem a surprising...

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To the Editors: In “Night Terrors” [NYR, November 19, 2020], I noted several biographical works about Rod Serling, but neglected to include Gordon F. Sander’s Serling:...