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

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A new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art depicts self-indulgence amid the disorder of a decaying world.

For over a century, the United States has played a role in inspiring and enabling white supremacy in Australia and New Zealand.

Two decades after India tested its nuclear weapons, the country still isn't in a position to do what the United States wants from it: help counter China.

To curb China, the U.S. could increase development aid to other Asian countries. Sometimes, doing good is good strategy.

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

In "Ghosts of the Tsunami," Richard Lloyd Parry asks: How can you write about a disaster beyond comprehension?

The author has now won the Nobel Prize. But critics are still struggling to understand him.

Netflix's "Death Note" is a case study in whitewashing a great story so thoroughly that it becomes unrecognizable.

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His emerging foreign policy would divide the planet along racial lines.

In a new book of conversations, Haruki Murakami mines the memories of famed conductor Seiji Ozawa for an insider view of orchestra life.