The Prophecy and Other Stories By Drago Jančar, (Northwestern University Press, 143 pages, $16.95 paper) As the Paris Conference of…
In 1942, as local gardaí collected and catalogued the intumescent corpses of the Allied sailors regularly washing up on the…
In his 1953 collection of political essays, The Captive Mind, the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz described a visit by a…
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia — It was the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana that hosted President George W. Bush during his first tour…
It is an infamous historical irony that the post-independence Congolese leader Mobutu Sese Seko’s Riviera palace was located next to…
Of particular note regarding last month’s Estonian Bronze Soldier crisis, during which Russian nationalists groups clashing with police and Russian…
House of Meetings by Martin Amis (Knopf, 256 pages, $23) After Martin Amis, the renowned but polarizing English writer, tackled…
Hugo Grotius, the 17th century jurist and father of public international law, stated in his 1625 magnum opus The Rights…
