Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their ...

I don’t know about you, but my brain is short-circuiting a bit from the news today, so I was glad to run across this video ...

I don’t know about you, but my brain is short-circuiting a bit from the news today, so I was glad to run across this video of Benedict Cumberbatch reading Ross Beeley’s letter published by McSweeney’s ...

I posted about the 4K restoration of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai coming out in theaters; here’s the trailer ...

Director Denis Villeneuve steps into the Criterion Closet to choose and talk about a few of his favorite films, including ...

In June 1971, the BBC aired a segment on a “mysterious” and “niche” sports imported from America called ...

In later life, Marples was elevated to the peerage before fleeing to Monaco at very short notice to avoid prosecution for tax fraud. Once a runner, always a runner. (thx, dunstan) When you buy through ...

80 years ago today, the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated. An estimated 1.1 million people (Jews, Poles, ...

Oh this is just delightful: for the opening of his documentary film on the history of music on SNL he co-directed with Oz ...

Without really meaning to, this week I’ve posted a few related articles around the theme of how to survive the next four yea ...

Over the last few days, I’ve been reading Ken Liu’s new translation of Laozi’s Dao De Jing. (Liu translated the first and third books in The Three-Body Problem trilogy.) Today, on a dark day for ...

I read Robin Wall Kimmerer’s The Serviceberry on my vacation and I wish I could share a few relevant passages from it, but in keeping with the theme of the book, I left it at my hotel’s communal ...