Review

In Capernaum, Nadine Labaki finds a new way for film to deal with poverty.

A new video game captures the anxiety of Chinese parenting.

1,200 newly translated poems from Bertolt Brecht offer an unexpected survival guide for difficult times.

Will the return of the European far-right be the undoing of the West?

A new diplomatic history argues that the United States, Egypt, and Israel prevented a Palestinian state from emerging. But leaders such as Yasser Arafat bear much of the blame.

A review of Prudence Bushnell’s new book on the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings.

Brussels’s new European history museum could put anyone to sleep.

The country’s far-right wants to revive ethnic nationalism. The left must come up with its own alternative.

There’s nothing wrong with today’s EU that France’s legendary 20th-century leader didn’t see coming—and didn’t try to fix when he had the chance.

Two French best-sellers draw warnings for the present from the stories of Hitler’s henchmen.

Meet the American philosopher who showed that Western politics could only move forward by first taking a step backward.

The second season of the acclaimed TV thriller “Fauda” obscures the dark realities of Israeli rule in the West Bank.