The Least-Loved Type of Memoir
Political autobiographies are usually dreck, but some rise above their genre. This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our ...
Six Political Memoirs Worth Reading
Hackish campaign memoirs shouldn’t indict the entire genre—there are truly excellent books written about power from the ...
Just Be Anxious About the Election
Americans are anxious about the election. The American Psychological Association’s annual Stress in America survey found that ...
Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had’
The Republican nominee’s preoccupation with dictators, and his disdain for the American military, is deepening.
Eight Great Reads
To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school. Terence Tao, the world’s greatest living ...
The General’s Warning
Milley went on to describe the grave degree to which former President Donald Trump, under whom Milley had served, was a ...
The Most Opinionated Man in America
Mike Solana, a Peter Thiel protégé, has made his Pirate Wires newsletter a must-read among the anti-woke investor class—and a ...
A Dissident Is Built Different
The Russian dissident died under mysterious circumstances in a prison camp above the Arctic Circle last February, alone, ...
For This Turkish Writer, the Flaws of Language Were Its Greatest Asset
Oguz Atay stretched the possibilities of fiction and critiqued his changing nation with playful, surreal stories.
A Radical Vision of the Sick Body
It is a radical gesture to treat the sick body, a body threatened by its own demise, as one that is also capable of ...
Who Owns an Idea?
Cases of loose inspiration or coincidental convergences in art can be fascinating, because they force us to rethink what ...
The West has to believe that democracy will prevail.
The temptation of pessimism is real. In the face of what feels like an endless war and an onslaught of propaganda, it is ...