In Nadav Lapid’s new film, Synonyms, a young Israeli attempts to outrun his own Israeliness.
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A new documentary asks: Has Brazil’s democracy been merely a passing dream?
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The Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude interrogates his country’s antisemitic history and its echoes in the present.
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A new biography of the philosopher misses the shortcomings of the Marxist tradition.
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The new season of the hit Israeli show Fauda continues in its portrayal of brutish Israelis and cowardly Palestinians.
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A new work addresses the long-neglected mass politicide of communists in Indonesia.
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Ex-fascist diplomat Curzio Malaparte's masterpiece blends the real, the improbable, and the impossible in Soviet Russia.
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A new history of the revolutionary criminals who rejected any possibility of revolution coming from the degraded masses—and turned their revolt into an individualistic one.
Read Moreby Mitchell Abidor Discussed in this essay: The Landmark Julius Caesar, edited and translated by Kurt A. Raaflaub. Pantheon, 2017, 793 pages. AS I WAS READING the magnificent new Landmark edition of Julius Caesar’s works, my initial instinct was to relate the Roman leader to the anti-democrats of today, starting — of course — with our […]
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