Review
List of Review articles
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Tom Hulce as Mozart performing in front of a large crowd in a screen grab from a film. ‘Amadeus,’ Back in Theaters, Is a Perfect Film
Poignant, entertaining, and bitchy, who cares that its central conflict is almost entirely made up?
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A grid of 12 book covers. Foreign Policy’s Summer Reading List
Our columnists and reporters’ top picks, from a history of China’s tattooed soldiers to an ambitious modern epic.
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Dark clouds hang over the silhouetted skylnie of London. In ‘Caledonian Road,’ the U.K. Is Living on Thin Ice
A sweeping state-of-the-nation novel fails to convince the reader.
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A samurai in a helmet yells with his mouth open and eyes wild. At 70, ‘Seven Samurai’ Is Still Sharp After All These Years
How the newly remastered classic influenced films from “The Magnificent Seven” to “A Bug’s Life.”
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Marchers, most of them women in heels, dresses, coats, and hats carry signs for the communist part as they walk down a street in New York. The Contradictions of America’s Communist Party
Its members were the country’s original illiberal democrats—before imploding into irrelevance.
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Donald Sutherland and Jane Fonda speak or sing into a microphone on a stage in front of the U.S. flag, held by two smiling women. Donald Sutherland and the Soldiers Who Resisted Vietnam
The chameleonic actor was also an activist ahead of his time.
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A photo illustration shows the Qing-era Summer Palace in Beijing behind an image of Chinese President Xi Jinping walking. Revisiting Chinese Empire
A new book explores parallel lives spent on its periphery.
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Juergen-habermas-riccardo-vecchio-illustration-3-2 The World Still Needs Habermas
The German philosopher is starting to outlive his liberal legacy.
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This undated photo shows a rat in the a Are Rats Actually That Bad?
The rodent’s reputation, revamped.
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Four men in short-sleeved polo or button-up shirts walk past the skyline of Shanghai. How Big Is CCP Inc.?
China’s sovereign funds are huge, powerful—and clumsy.
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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz joke before a group photo during the G-7 summit in Savelletri, Italy, on June 14. Modi Still Has Great-Power Ambitions for India
A new book traces the evolution of New Delhi’s quest for elusive global status.
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The cover image from the Criterion Collection version of The Parallax View, starring Warren Beatty. The Paranoid Movies That Captured Post-Watergate America
The proverbial tinfoil hat was once the purview of counterculture hippies.
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Taiwanese missile boats and smaller craft maneuver on the sea during a military drill in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Will Taiwan’s Future Be Settled in Washington?
‘The Boiling Moat’ is more interested in American arguments than the country itself.
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A red sky with two Soviet soldiers silhouetted in the foreground. The Hidden Critique of U.S. Foreign Policy in ‘Red Dawn’
Forty years ago, Hollywood released a hit movie with a surprisingly subversive message.
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The book cover of Look Away by Jacob Kushner Germany’s Far-Right Surge Isn’t New
The country’s failure to confront deadly extremists in the early 2000s should be a warning.
