Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes.

Post–Cold War administrations have oscillated between ... Trump inherits the remnants of these ages, but he also represents a new one: the age of nationalism. Washington’s traditional impulse to ...

Matisse’s supreme indifference to the context in which his work was shown (and his thoughts published and aired) is not enough to say that Matisse shared the nationalism of Vichy. What can be said is ...

transcript Survivors of Auschwitz, where the Nazis murdered more than 1.1 million people ... At the end of World War II in 1945, said Janina Iwanska, another survivor, “people believed this ...

The world is in danger ... and basic dignity. One of the best ways to find a place of balance and light amid all the chaos is by creating and appreciating art, which can get to the heart of ...

the U.S. World War One Centennial Commission selected Howard out of some 350 submissions to design the centerpiece for its new war memorial on the Washington Mall. Here was a creative battle to end ...

The US’ reported withdrawal from the UNHRC and some other vital UN agencies could be seen as a fillip to anti-democratic and ...

One potentially impactful exhibition will be “She, Unbroken,” which is a series of paintings by several Ukrainian-born women who have experienced the ravages of war. Art fans may also be ...

Each morning, despite his failing eyesight, one of the first things he sees is ... and Alfred, a first World War veteran and butcher who just wanted to be German. Weeks after the Nazi takeover ...

National globalism is wily that way. It uses foreignness and territorial indeterminacy to its advantage. And no nation has ...

Instead of revisiting the past, the rap titan’s Super Bowl performance focused on the now — from his latest album to the ...

With dwindling attention spans and addictive social media posts, should the garden-variety reader commit to a novel of over ...