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As politicians dither, the threat of default spreads from Greece to Spain and Italy.

When is a little more than enough in a painting?

Hitchcock delighted in manipulating the audience. Early on Luis Buñuel learned to be satisfied with amusing himself.

The bishops want to put a stop to the nuns’ focus on social justice. Thanks to their second-class status within the church, the nuns have little recourse.

Addressing the issue publicly for the first time, Israel’s leading novelist says an attack would set in motion a “nightmare."

Two new biographies differ over the astronomer’s view of the relationship between science and faith.

The electoral process has been occupied by the 1 percent—which means that what you hear in this “campaign” is largely refracted versions of their views, their needs, their fears, and their wishes.

A novelist’s lyrical attempt to measure the immeasurable.

In The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides can’t explain what happens to his characters without throwing in every last why.

The Eurocrisis will finally bring an end to the era of Berlusconi—but his sour legacy will endure.