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How do Greece’s economists and writers explain its social predicament?

A historian’s view of why political demands, past and present, have weighed on Turkish debates about the Armenian genocide.

The soul-destroying weariness in A.B. Yehoshua’s stories seems as old as time itself—and unique to contemporary Israel.

Frustrated, stubborn, committed to bad science, was Louis Agassiz anything other than a laughingstock?

The memorial to Parks turned her into a meek and redemptive figure—instead of the radical freedom fighter she was until the end of her life.

The task of a critic has to do with the nature of the knowledge we call art.

The Smithsonian’s show on the Civil War and American Art expresses a deep unease about the relationship between between art and history.