The Whole World in His Hands
What a digital restoration of the most expensive painting ever sold tells us about beauty, authenticity, and the fragility of existence
Once Upon Another Fraught Time …
The power of Yiddish children’s literature
Putin’s Gambit
What if Russia’s motives in Ukraine are even more insidious than we think?
Remaking a Killing
How a brutal double homicide in 19th-century France enflamed the imagination of a great Russian novelist
Night Train to Riga
Two stories of love, heartbreak, and escape