The Blog: occasional thoughts on fiction, culture, history, and society.

I’m sure I was not the only one who responded to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine with the thought, here we go again. Yet each one of...

A famous 20th century novel of ideas provides unexpected illumination for the early 21st century. Originally published in 1984, Milan...

A series set in 1929 Weimar Germany shows us the aspects of social collapse that usually escape our perception. Those who study history...