EI Weekly

A series of audio essays featuring our writers.

A helicopter is pushed off the overcrowded deck of the aircarft carrier USS Hancock (CV-19) off the coast of South Vietnam during the fall of Saigon.
A double portrait of Mozaffar al-Din Shah, the fifth Qajar shah of Iran.
Walter Sickert's Easter Monday.
During the Soviet-Finnish war (1939-1940) skiers of the Finnish army in white camouflage made lightning and effective attacks on units of the Red Army.
Leonidas at Thermopylae, by Jacques-Louis David, 1814.
Parisians gather around the Arc de Triomphe as Allied forces liberate the city. Credit: RBM Vintage Images / Alamy Stock Photo.
Isabelle Huppert, Madame Bovary 1991. Credit: Collection Christophel / Alamy Stock Photo
CONGRESS OF VIENNA (1814-1815) Napoleon watching the Tsar, the Emperor of Austria and King of Prussia dividing up Europe
Street art in Tbilisi of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin playing chess.