Culture

A recent book examines the origins and end of an affair between the film industry and the Jewish state.

Russia is seeking to destroy Ukrainian culture. The West must help those working to preserve it.

Europe’s arguments against restitution have ignored the legitimate claims of African scholars and governments for 50 years.

A striking new translation of Chinese fairy tales shows a shared folkloric tradition.

Big-budget thrillers are now being filmed in the kingdom, but culture clashes could hinder the industry’s success.

Two new works of Chinese government propaganda meet with very different reactions from viewers.

An imported culture war is playing a major role in the presidential election.

There’s a word for the anger and disappointment French voters are feeling: “seum.”

A new history of fakery in U.S. journalism shows the public has always had an appetite for fake news.

The Mafia family heir had a college education. Did it pay off?

The Japanese film is up for an Academy Award at this year’s Oscars.

Russia could destroy Ukrainian history, unless the United States does something about it.

Other majority-minority societies offer positive examples—and cautionary tales.

Putin’s weaponization of the Russian language has solidified Ukrainian identity and statehood.

A nationwide experiment is abandoned after producing only misery.

Political opposites Olavo de Carvalho and Elza Soares garnered vast youth followings in the final years of their lives.

A recent International Court of Justice decision regarding Azerbaijan’s actions in Nagorno-Karabakh could offer protection to threatened cultural heritage sites around the world.

China’s government wants the country to have one story, and Xi Jinping is at the center of it.

From a semi-fictionalized account of the Netanyahus to a meditation on ancient Rome’s stabbiness, here are the best book and film reviews Foreign Policy published this year.