Henry Kissinger and the Way of the World
A review of The Inevitability of Tragedy, by Barry Gewen.
Fauda Is Tribal TV
An Israeli series shows anarchy, tyranny, and a war of cultures.
John Stewart: Photographer and Prisoner of War
A remarkable account of a life-and-death ordeal.
Robert Conquest: Sovietologist and Poet
Conquest was clear-eyed in cataloguing the ruthlessness of Communism when other intellectuals were denying it.
Arthur Koestler: Communism’s Cassandra
Koestler singularly influenced the hopes and fears let loose in the Cold War.
The War-Time Diaries of Miksa Fenyő: A Little-Known Masterpiece
A review of A Nation Adrift: The 1944–1945 Wartime Diaries of Miksa Fenyő, translated by Mario D. Fenyő.
The Cold War of Words
A review of Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War, by Duncan White.
Yaakov Malkin R.I.P.
Malkin was a learned secular humanist who was among the foremost creators of Israeli culture.
