Haute Noir
The Nobel-prize winner’s metaphysical mysteries relentlessly explore his own past and that of his native France, but the search for answers is never afforded an easy solution.
Nazi Garden Party
Timothy Snyder’s new history of the Holocaust has many theses, but its biggest is also its most flawed.
Consumption
It was only a matter of time before novelists turned to Whole Foods as a metonym for 21st-century corporate hypocrisy.
The Battle of Algiers
Camus’s legacy is haunted by his hesitation to support Algerian independence, but Adam Kirsch says that he gets to the heart of questions over when to act.
Exit Left
Jean-Paul Sartre was once the world’s most famous philosopher, but Adam Kirsch shows how ideology changed him into an apologist.