My Husband the War Criminal
Pension Schmidt, better known as “Salon Kitty,” was one of the most glamorous bordellos in Nazi Germany. Among its illustrious clientele were foreign diplomats, government ministers,...
The Party’s Over
In 1991 Margaret Thatcher accepted an invitation to speak in the city that had just ceased to be Leningrad and was now St. Petersburg again. As...
Rococo Risks
Ange Mlinko’s Venice opens with a prefatory poem recalling a trip from Beirut to Cyprus, the birthplace of Aphrodite. It is Boxing Day 2009. The poet...
Our Toxic Nuclear Present
Back when movies were still available on VHS, a friend gave me Akira Kurosawa’s I Live in Fear (1955). (The Japanese title, Ikimono no kiroku, translates...
Toy Apple Beauty
First there is the outsider.Then there is a second outsider—lessOutside than the first, but still.Then there is the third outsider,Who is now, actually, inside something,Albeit something...
‘Hell, Yes, We Are Subversive’
In 1969 a UCLA student who was also an undercover FBI agent revealed in the campus newspaper that the school’s philosophy department had recently hired a...
Was the Third Way the Right Way?
To the Editors: Robert Kuttner portrays much of recent Democratic Party governance, especially the Clinton administration, as “neoliberal,” an epithet for policies that he and the...
Latvia & World War II
To the Editors: Gordon F. Sander covers the dramatic changes underway in memorializing World War II in Latvia [“Memory Wars in Latvia,” NYR, July 21], highlighting...
Cover-ups & ‘Uncoverings’
To the Editors: Jennifer Wilson’s fascinating article on Pushkin’s Blackness [“The First Russian,” NYR, August 18] leaves a gap in treatments of the poet’s African heritage...
Barbara Ehrenreich, Author of NICKEL AND DIMED, Has Passed Away at 81
Barbara Ehrenreich was an author, journalist, and activist who published more than 20 books, including Nickel and Dimed, which documents several months she spent working the...
