Foolsburg: The History of a Town By Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (Vintage, 304 pages, $17) In the spring of 2022, as Russian…
The precise wording of the Vatican–China Provisional Agreement, signed on Sept. 22, 2018, remains a closely guarded secret, but its…
Las miradas de los actuantes parecen, en las instantáneas fotográficas de incidentes revolucionarios, mitad cretinas mitad dementes. In the…
It has become a custom of mine, each year towards the end of June, to attend a daylily flower show…
Nestled among the three thousand or so engraved slabs and columns that make up the city of Xi’an’s sprawling Stele…
It was during the reign of Emperor Zhenzong of Song, so the story goes, that a maiden from Hangzhou, a…
Back in April, during a question-and-answer session at the Islamic Center of Boston in Wayland, Massachusetts, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)…
Still, thou art blest, compar’d wi’ me! The present only toucheth thee: But Och! I backward cast my e’e, On…
We would rather be ruined than changed We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the…
Ohne jene Kunst würden wir Nichts als Vordergrund sein und ganz und gar im Banne jener Optik leben, welche das…
