List of Culture articles
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food-commodity-books-multiple The Foods That ‘Changed’ the World
What happened to all those bestselling individual food histories?
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foreign-policy-cookbooks-homepage 7 Cookbooks for Foreign-Policy Wonks
Cookbooks remind us that countries are more than their politics.
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A musician wearing a Soviet militia uniform stands before the entrance of the Ilkhom Theatre in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on March 13. Politics as Theater
On watching Gogol in Simferopol, and more.
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A Tibetan prayer flag Tibetans Fight to Keep Their Language Alive
The diaspora is preserving Tibetan as Chinese oppression grows at home.
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An orchestra at the Bolshoi Theatre in Russia The Last String of Russian Greatness Is About to Snap
A great classical music tradition might die because of the Ukraine invasion.
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Frodo stands before the Cracks of Doom in Sergei Iukhimov’s cover illustration for Volume I of Vlastelin Kolec, Natalya Grigor’eva and Vladimir Grushetskij’s two-volume 1993 translation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. How Soviet Artists Created Their Own Vision of Tolkien
Around the world, artists provide snapshots into national psyches.
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Pablo Picasso with his arts dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler How Picasso Became Big Business
A new history of modern art flips the script by focusing on dealers, collectors, and curators.
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Green cladding surrounds the Ghazanchetsots, an Armenian Apostolic cathedral damaged in the war, during construction on the building in Shusha on Sept. 25. How Historic Sites Have Become Battlegrounds Around the World
And the stories they tell about the past and the future.
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Macron and his wife look at an old book. The Summer Reading List for NatSec Wonks
Read up, nerds.
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Israel G. Vargas illustration for Foreign Policy/Netflix/Amazon What Popular TV Shows Reveal About a Country
And how they can shape national identity.
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Closeup photo of Pap Ndiaye The Education of Pap Ndiaye
A quiet academic becomes a lightning rod in France’s culture wars.
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A person walks past a grid of mostly domestic movie posters in Seoul in 2006. South Korea’s Film Rules Need a Reboot
The success of productions such as “Squid Game” and “Parasite” proves the industry can hold its own without excessive protectionism.
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Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon addresses members of the Scottish Parliament. The Scots Question
As the government in Edinburgh plans another independence referendum, does language have a role to play?
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A portrait of Alexander Pushkin. From Pushkin to Putin: Russian Literature’s Imperial Ideology
Russian classical literature, chock full of dehumanizing nationalism, reads disturbingly familiar today.
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Book covers Foreign Policy’s Summer Reading List
Our top picks, from campus novels to science fiction to globe-spanning histories.
