As Holocaust Remembrance Day nears, two filmmakers warn that silencing uncomfortable truths about the past fuels modern ...

For decades, this place didn’t exist on any map - yet it was the most nuked location on Earth. The Soviet Union detonated 456 nuclear and hydrogen bombs here, while local civilians were kept ...

The United States is judged not only by the wars it fights, but by the expectations it cultivates. From Budapest in 1956 to Tehran in the twenty-first century, the pattern persists. Revolutions are ...

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The Cheshire Cat’s vanishing smile in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a trick whereby the cat fades away ...

The Russian filmmaker discusses his biopic on the Russian poet, the nature of dissidents, and the heightened poetics of his ...

Xi Jinping has revealed that an Irish novel helped him through childhood trauma, in a conversation with Ireland’s Taoiseach ...

Before his tragic passing, Star Trek veteran Anton Yelchin co-starred with Jennifer Lawrence in a drama that remains a hidden gem in their filmographies.

The fishing village was home to the Joint Services School for Linguistics, where servicemen including Alan Bennett, Dennis ...

A secret that takes on such enormous proportions that the question comes to mind: "What if the answers you find hurt more than not knowing?" Suspense, drama, and personal depths are therefore ...

As the belligerent US president threatens more attacks on South America with no regard to international law, he is causing ...

The Opinion columnist M. Gessen examines how the president governs through spectacle, and the message his displays of force ...