List of Culture articles
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Two people are silhouetted in a shaft of light as they sit in chairs in a cafe. The Most Successful CIA Operation You’ve Never Heard of
How the agency’s program to circulate banned books helped take down the Iron Curtain.
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A grid of book covers for 11 summer fiction releases. The Novels We’re Reading in August
The dog days of summer, from an 18th-century English village to modern-day Tbilisi.
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An illustration shows Xi Jinping sitting at a table covered with a red cloth. He cuts a plate and dumpling in half with giant scissors. Other fractured plates and chopsticks litter the table around him. Xi Jinping’s War on Dinner Is Hurting China’s Economy
An anti-corruption campaign is chilling consumption.
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A woman gestures with her hands clenched near her face and her eyes closed. Yoko Tawada’s Quiet Radicalism
In a newly translated collection, the Japanese German author probes what it means to live between languages.
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A grid showing the covers of 15 new book releases coming this summer. FP’s Books of the Summer
The biggest releases in foreign affairs, history, and economics.
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A tourist leans against a sign that reads "Welcome to the People's Temple Jonestown" as two people take photos of them. The sign arches over a muddy dirt road with dense trees and brush on either side. After Chernobyl, Jonestown?
Guyana taps into the dark tourism trend by opening the site where cult members purportedly drank the Kool-Aid.
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Superman carries a woman through an explosion. Superman the Interventionist
The new movie chafes against Trump-era politics.
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An illustration showing drawn likeness of John Cena, Idris Alba and others on a red and white starburst. Why Must Hollywood Presidents Kick Ass and Take Names?
The French aren’t making action movies about heads of state.
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1-fiction-Books-in-brief-foreign-policy-July The Novels We’re Reading in July
From a Salvadoran multiverse to queer life in contemporary Nigeria.
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An illustration shows Chairman Mao being driven in a car past a sea of red flags. In the foreground is Donald Trump in a similar pose driven in a golf cart. Is This an American Cultural Revolution?
Liberal critics charge Trump with creating a cult of personality not unlike Mao Zedong’s.
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Hundreds of people gather around a giant doll with pigtails, an orange jumper and red glowing eyes. Why Is ‘Squid Game’ So Popular?
One of the most vicious, violent, and nihilistic works of entertainment ever made is also truly the work of an auteur.
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An illustration depicts the lead in the TV show Careme, dressed as a chef, putting a Napoleon shaped hat on a tower of desserts. He flicks whipped cream with his other hand and winks. The French TV Show That Turns Souffle Into Statecraft
“Carême” gives an international audience what it wants: rich food, lusty romps, and Napoleon.
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A grid of 12 new fiction book covers on a blue and beige field The Novels We’re Reading in June
Peculiar forms of criminality, as seen from front-line Ukraine and Lagos.
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Several children pop out from behind a man and woman as they stand on a stage. Fact-Checking ‘The Sound of Music’ as It Turns 60
Hugely popular in the U.S., the film never found an audience in Austria or Germany.
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A drawn illustration shows a chaotic swarm of Eurovision performers surrounded by multicolored disco balls. The performers are encircled by the stars of the EU flag. The West Is Strong—and in Sequins
Eurovision has never been a bigger party or more political.
