The U.S. has historically chosen war to address all kinds of problems: terror, drugs, unfriendly countries. This time is different.

While leaders in the U.S., U.K., and France spout nationalist rhetoric, Angela Merkel has emphasized core democratic values in response to the coronavirus.

“A Hidden Life” is a strangely simplistic movie about good and evil.

What can the United States learn from Germany’s efforts to reckon with the Holocaust?

Despite its setting in Nazi Germany, Taika Waititi’s movie never risks actually disturbing its audience.

Wars, deaths, suffering women, and families and their discontents are the abiding themes of her novels.

The child witnesses in her new book focus on the bewildering experience of war.

The author of Hiroshima showed the world the realities of American power.

The new remake of a World War II epic falls victim to the conventions of prestige TV.

Jared Diamond struggles to understand a connected world.

“Abel and Cain” is about memory, how it’s made and remade, sequelized and turned into kitsch.

A TNR roundtable discusses “The Bells,” the fifth episode in the final season of the HBO fantasy series.

Headlines about Nazis could distract from a more pressing issue: current tensions within the EU.

Out of the ruins of war, Walter Gropius made a vital political community.

Jason Lutes's graphic novel "Berlin," about the break-up of the Weimar Republic, is both unsettling and uplifting in its timeliness.

Set in postwar London, “Warlight” illuminates a hidden world of endless conflict.

Columnists and politicians decrying the decline of the West can't seem to define what it is they're defending. The entire concept was developed for a very particular historical moment.

Elisabeth Asbrink’s new book looks for lessons both in counterfactuals and in post-war history.

The country has reverted to de facto one-party rule. But there are signs that Japan's democracy is not dead yet.

Jennifer Egan disconnects from the fractured nature of modern life.