What standards should we use to judge figures of the past? No one evokes this question more acutely than Pope Pius XII. Two books assess his actions in World War II.
This is the novel you get when you cross the demonical complexities of Poe with the malignant banalities of Kafka, but De Maria has added a menacing ingredient.
In his study of governance in U.S. history, historian Gary Gerstle shows that Americans have distrusted each other ever since they forged a single nation.
The critic and novelist John Berger argues that “the future has been downsized”—restricted to the mercenary parameters of finance capital and digital technocracy.
