
The life and times of Richard John Neuhaus

With his new novel, the Czech Canadian dissident returns to his past

Gabriel García Márquez’s sumptuous and tragic vision of the modern world

After a bloody twentieth century, the continent may now be ready to come to terms with its dark history

Caustic, excessive, self-loathing French author Michel Houellebecq skewers Western civilization

A searing portrait of the Great Helmsman

Why the United States needs opinionated loudmouths

Turkey’s most famous writer evokes his country’s schizophrenic past and its struggle with Islam’s place in day-to-day life.

Bombay, Tehran, and Prague, in all their madness and excess, refuse to conform to Western notions of the modern city