Tag: History

Paul Greengrass has made medieval England feel less like distant history than a political system caught ...

Fyodor Dostoevsky has already written Crime and Punishment, yet the achievement has left him behaving less ...

Shinya Tsukamoto treats the Vietnam War as an American story viewed from outside its national mythology. ...

Elegance Bratton turns noir inside out by forcing its moral shadows into Mississippi daylight. The danger ...

Photography has always carried a strange contradiction: it can preserve a moment forever while allowing the ...

Kakunoshin Yanagida knows how to surrender a Go match without looking defeated. Across the board from ...

Charles de Gaulle’s first great victory here is grammatical: he speaks in the present tense about ...

Julian of Norwich left behind almost nothing except words. A name that may not have been ...

The most interesting thing Iko Uwais does in Timur has surprisingly little to do with throwing ...

Reykjavík turns nuclear strategy into a question of distance. Michael Russell Gunn’s The Brink of War ...