Reviews Archive

Iraqi protestors set a fire at the base of a statue of Saddam Hussein, April 2003.

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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

On set at English National Opera's Jenufa.

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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

Publicity shot for the novel Sisters by a River, published in 1947.

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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

Edition of Curt Bloch's Het Onderwater Cabaret, Magazine from 30.08.1943. Displayed in the Jewish Museum Berlin, Curt Bloch collection. Loaned by the Charities Aid Foundation America

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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