The Honour and the Duty
Yossi Cohen has written a bracing and lively memoir about his time as head of Mossad.
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Yossi Cohen has written a bracing and lively memoir about his time as head of Mossad.
A new book by two former peace processors makes clear that statehood was never the goal of the Palestinian cause.
A new book looks back on the making of Billy Wilder’s American classic.
Jon Lee Anderson’s powerful new book on Afghanistan reminds us that the justness of a cause is no guarantee of its success.
Jordan Castro’s new novel ‘Muscle Man’ offers a wry and meme-literate vision of blokey intellectualism.
What realists like Emma Ashford deride as America’s “reactionary defence of the status quo” is in fact a prudent effort to preserve a world order of unparalleled value.
A new book presents a cogent diagnosis of the ills plaguing American society, but also reactionary prescriptions for ameliorating them.
Garrett Graff’s new book provides the story of America’s quest for the bomb with a valuable human quality without sacrificing the epic sweep.
If leading media critics don’t expect much, filmmakers won’t deliver much.
‘The Technological Republic’ is a searching indictment of a culture that has lost sight of its metaphysical horizons and now seeks an escape from history.
Ian Penman has published an eccentric new book about Erik Satie, a French surrealist composer and celebratory nuisance with a tiny oeuvre and massive influence.
A riveting new book by American historian Lynne Olson re-examines the story of Ravensbrück, the Nazis’ notorious concentration camp for women.
Matthew Gasda’s new novel unfolds in a haze of empty dialogue and overwrought introspection.
A new collection of Murray Kempton’s articles reveals a thoughtful journalist whose politics were difficult to categorise.
Biden’s re-election campaign was a grand exercise in hubris, which led to the very outcome it was intended to prevent.