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How China made it

The story of how the United States and China became so economically intertwined that they cannot break apart is at the heart of one of the most pressing issues in international pol..

Michael Sheridan April 3, 2024

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Kind of Blue’s quiet mystery

James Kaplan's new study of jazz is a tribute to serendipity; that the right people find each other at the right time and create something too special for words.

Max Mitchell March 27, 2024

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How America misread Saddam

For decades, Saddam Hussein had confused and misled the United States. After 9/11, the fear of further terror attacks and the misperception of Iraq's support for al-Qaeda set in mo..

Philip Zelikow March 27, 2024

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Janáček’s small-town world

The Czech composer's opera Jenůfa sums up the claustrophobic horrors of village life.

Benjamin Poore March 25, 2024

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Raymond Aron’s search for liberal foundations

Postwar French liberals exercised disproportionate influence upon public debates, and none more so than the philosopher, historian, and journalist Raymond Aron.

Samuel Gregg March 22, 2024

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The magnificent unreality of Barbara Comyns

Her readership is devoted but small, and not all her novels are in print, but, once read, Barbara Comyns is never forgotten.

Oliver Soden March 20, 2024

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Interwar architecture was much more than modernism

A posthumous volume of the architectural historian Gavin Stamp's writing on the interwar period is the crowning masterpiece of a remarkable career.

Clive Aslet March 19, 2024

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Curt Bloch’s underwater resistance

A German Jewish refugee who spent the Second World War underground in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, Curt Bloch resisted the regime with wit, bravery — and cartoons.

Malcolm Forbes March 15, 2024

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All hail King Zog?

The outlandish life of Albania's King Zog receives a vivid, if uncharitable, retelling.

Daniel Marc Janes March 13, 2024