The most obvious example is the pro-Israel lobby, feared and embraced across the political spectrum, with its deepest ...
A version of this column originally ran in Le Devoir on July 2, 2024. Translated from the French by Elettra Pauletto. It may seem paradoxical that a porn star could arouse optimism amid an election ...
From Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know, which will be published in December by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Among the recent discoveries of neuroscience is that radical self-delusion can have ...
From V13: Chronicle of a Trial, which will be published next month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Carrère compiled the following text from the testimony of victims at the trial… ...
On the second day of the 1924 Democratic National Convention, at Madison Square Garden, for example, partisan divide reached ...
I’ve never visited the office of this magazine. Oh, sure, the editors have invited me up—they’re very polite—but I’ve declined, because an unseen office is a useful thing. The imagination can tailor ...
Like most of my generation, I was brought up on the saying “Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.” Being a highly virtuous child, I believed all that I was told and acquired a ...
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The case of the vanishing movie involving a murder, a forty-year drug sentence, Liz Taylor's repossessed fur coat, and possible skulduggery at the highest levels. The author of a satirical fantasy ...
From the Archive Timeless stories from our 174-year archive handpicked to speak to the news of the day.
Percentage change since 2002 in the portion of U.S. high school seniors taking the ACT who received perfect scores ...
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