It can be tempting to throw in the towel, either cheating your way through or thinking, “This is useless!” But learning a new ...

Potential 'criminality' was invoked only when Israel was criticized. Blanket blocking of terms central to describing Israel’s ...

The fiery intellectual W.E.B. Du Bois and the young columnist Walter Lippmann were among the first to grasp a core feature of ...

German film “Franz,” premiering at TIFF 2025, blends surrealism with frankness in its depiction of Kafka’s multicolored life ...

The idea, he said, came from his and German long jumper Markus Rehm's coach, Olympic javelin medalist Steffi Nerius. Steffi had a tradition of wearing words in the host country's language as a mark of ...

Massachusetts Renaissance man Ben Shattuck tells me a creative life is like a river — he’s just paddling down tributaries as they come. Put it this way: When I first interviewed Shattuck, over a ...

Historian Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating a notorious photo of a Nazi massacre — now he is confident he has ...

The Des Moines district provided opportunities my family might not have had at other schools, writes Jamie Seitz.

The number of talented and perceptive people found on the internet is staggering. Take the sprawling ‘What Is This Thing?’ ...

In an era of bombast and spectacle, Virginia’s Democratic nominee for governor doesn’t go viral, doesn’t do stunts, and promises competence instead of chaos. So far, it’s working for her.

That is how the beloved comedy duo Milan Lasica and Július Satinský once joked about the first Slovak novel, written by Jozef ...