Michael Kimmage

@mkimmage

Norman Mailer’s generation learned to “write like men.” But their female contemporaries from Mary McCarthy to Diana Trilling pioneered a more enduring style.

History demonstrates that foresight is essential to building a lasting peace.

The United States cannot afford to put a foot wrong if it wants to prevent a war in Europe.

Biden’s upcoming meeting with the Russian president is the perfect opportunity to shrink Russia’s outsize significance in American politics.

With Putinism under assault, the president can forge a new path by rejecting regime change and heavy-handed democracy promotion in favor of interconnected diplomacy.

We need a new kind of writing about Russia.

William Drozdiak's new book charts the tensions that have divided a continent.

Steven Pifer's book tells a story of deferred decision making and geopolitical collision.

Even his heroism was somehow private

Reviewing Rick Perlstein's 'The Invisible Bridge'

The novel stood in subtle opposition to much that Soviet life tried to destroy

And why we need literary scholarship to reunite with literary criticism