Alas, poor Europe, I knew it well. A continent of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. Where be your gibes now? Your ...

The impossibility of conveying in ordinary Yiddish the experience of walking through the empty streets of one’s eradicated ...

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One of my favorite words in the English language is “doodle.” I love it. The image it conjures is flat-out bipartisan. It ...

Michelle Zauner’s new album with Japanese Breakfast explores the many ways in which sadness pervades modern womanhood Credit ...

Gossip entertains, and it also sustains. In Jane Austen’s novel “Persuasion,” the sober heroine, Anne Elliot, pays a visit to Mrs. Smith, a former classmate who is now a penniless widow, confined to ...

Has the history of English drama been corrupted by conspiracy theorists, who merely share a love of gossip and scandal?

Choices, choices, always choices. On February 25th it was between an event in Edinburgh’s Usher Hall marking the third ...

The poor level of political debate has done little ... considered the likes — translated into English — of “bureaucracy monster” and “transformation backlog.” In the end, it settled ...

What we didn’t anticipate was that our new Gilded Age would become even more like its precursor—not only in the seeming ...

Alas, poor Europe, I knew it well ... except blocking inquiries into foreign rape gangs and prosecuting English citizens who protest mass migration. Similarly, when France held its own parliamentary ...