A new contemporary art exhibit explores the humble but vital elements of human life that are becoming all too rare in our distraction-prone digital world: stillness, solitude, and the solidity of time itself.

Sri Lanka’s recovery from decades of civil war has some observers approvingly citing a “Sri Lankan option” for defeating guerrilla fighters. But its fragile peace came at a very high price.

Immigration Outside the Law By Hiroshi Motomura Oxford University Press, 2014, 360 pp., $29.95Hiroshi Motomura, professor of law at UCLA, has written the most thoughtfully and honestly argued brief for a liberal immigration regime in the United States that one is likely to find.  Exploring the implications of the Supreme Court’s landmark 1982 decision in […]

Peter Pomerantsev’s years as a TV producer in Moscow gave him a keen appreciation of the dizzying, disorienting realities of postmodern Russia.

Prolific director Mike Nichols impressed critics and charmed audiences, but his legacy has more to do with the vanishing urbane world he represented than the quality of his films.

As the world goes wild for Korean food, fashion, and pop music, the country is punching above its weight as an exporter of culture.

A new book arguing for the ubiquity of esoteric writing in pre-modern times redeems Leo Strauss from his many detractors.

Coke is indeed ‘the real thing’ if reality is about shrewdly offloading risk and responsibiity in order to make loads of money.

A history of confidential U.S.-Cuban talks is valuable, but gets the plot line backwards.

Of two new books on the GOP, one aims large but loses focus; the other homes in on just one man but reveals worlds.