As with the past few years, we are fortunate enough to have scholar Sandra M. Gustafson contribute a post following Barack Obama’s annual State of the
Excerpted from How Many is Too Many?: The Progressive Argument for Reducing Immigration into the United States by Philip Cafaro *** How many immigrants should we
Adam Gopnik, writing in the New Yorker, recently profiled eminent American sociologist Howard S. Becker (Howie, please: “Only my mother ever called me Howard”), one
“A Show-Trial” Excerpted from Mayakovsky: A Biography by Bengt Jangfeldt *** Mayakovsky returned to Moscow on 17 or 18 September. The following day, Krasnoshchokov was arrested,
On January 3, 2015, scholar Daniel Albright (1945–2015), the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University—who counted himself, among other accolades, as an NEH Fellow, a
Below follows, in full, an interview with Alice Kaplan on the career of recent Nobel Laureate Patrick Modiano. The interview was originally published online
Our free e-book for January is Simon Kitson’s The Hunt for Nazi Spies: Fighting Espionage in Vichy France; read more about the book below: