Techno-thrillers are the rose-colored glasses through which the national-security state sees itself. Ronald Reagan so admired Tom Clancy’s novel The Hunt for Red October (“my kind of yarn”) that he ...

Discussed in this essay: Hubris: The American Origins of Russia’s War Against Ukraine, by Jonathan Haslam. Harvard University Press. 368 pages. $29.95. The Folly of Realism: How the West Deceived ...

From Sister Europe, which was published last month by Knopf. Demian was among the first guests to arrive, taking a taxi. He had intended to get through the evening by being buzzed, though he managed ...

From Suzanne and Louise, which will be published this month by Magic Hour Press. Translated from the French by Christine Pichini. Louise and Suzanne, old ladies, sisters: short, gray-haired, stooped, ...

From a previously unpublished letter in The Letters of Emily Dickinson, which is out next month from Harvard University Press. to unknown, late january 1878 Dear friend. We recollect you, which if a ...

When Roxy Music was recording “Street Life” for the 1973 album Stranded, they hung a mic out the window of AIR Studios above Oxford Street, but they didn’t like the results and they ended up mixing in ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock has never been closer to midnight, yet the nuclear panic of the 1960s feels like history. Jackson Lears, who served as a naval officer on a ...

At stake was more than some Caribbean island. America itself, one elder statesman informed the president, faced a crucial test “in the great struggle between liberty and despotism.” Would the Russians ...

A version of this column originally ran in Le Devoir on May 1, 2023. Translated from the French by Elettra Pauletto. News of violence from the Mexican border in early March was all too familiar to me.

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From A Boy’s Own Story, an adaptation of Edmund White’s 1982 novel of the same name. The book will be published this month by Top Shelf Productions.