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For Albert Cossery, the world is split between those who respect a cause and those who don’t give a tinker's damn.

A postwar German novelist’s complicated legacy.

Satantango will devour you, you and everything you know.

In The Conflict, the French intellectual takes American mothering to task.

Anthony Shadid was an exceedingly rare reporter in the thinning ranks of American journalism.
 

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

The Internet as a toy with a tin ear and a wooden tongue.

Prison labor as the past—and future—of American “free-market” capitalism.

On its fiftieth anniversary, the founding declaration of SDS echoes today in democracy movements around the world.

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