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To the Editors: Please forgive the extreme delay of this letter in response to Nathaniel Rich’s review of Walter Kirn’s book about me. To the whole...

This brazen killing did not occur in isolation. If it was the “game-changer” that many see, it was also the latest, most extreme manifestation of a...

On August 14, Korea and Taiwan unveiled two statues commemorating the 80,000 to 200,000 “comfort women,” primarily from Korea, but also from Taiwan, China, and Southeast...

The White Helmets’ financial backing is not the real reason why the pro-Assad camp is so bent on defaming them. Since 2015, the year the Russians...

Berlin, 1918. You can feel the “terrible divisions today,” Kollwitz notes in her diary. There are daily mass protests, demonstrations and violence in Berlin. Even those...

What makes precision a feature of the modern world is the transition from craftsmanship to mass production. The genius of machine tools—as opposed to mere machines—lies...

Photos from the Masquerade of the Red Death, Brooklyn’s spookiest literary party After darkness fell on October 25th, New York’s most distinguished literati donned red and black...

On the back cover of Hanne Ørstavik’s novel Love is a one-line quotation attributed to a significantly more famous Norwegian writer. According to Karl Ove Knausgaard,...

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When we lose physical media, we lose our connection to the past Photo by Autopilot The glue used to bind LaserDiscs is breaking down. Years of improper...