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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.

Transcript of our Live Chat on Testing and Education Reform featuring Dana Goldstein and teachers Mark Anderson and Tara Brancato.

Smart comments from our live chat on education reform and testing, along with comments on poverty and attachment parenting.

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.

Kurt Vonnegut sought to fool us with his eyes wide open.

In a city divided by extremes, the festival brings together all kinds of people to cook up something marvelous.

The musician’s posthumous memoir, The Last Holiday, is as rich and ambiguous as his declaration that “The Revolution Will Not be Televised.”

Mitt Romney is easily influenced and highly malleable when it comes to foreign policy.