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Milan Kundera
July 12, 2023
Jared Marcel Pollen
Milan Kundera’s Stubborn Struggle for the Survival of Literature
The Czech author, who died this week at 94, warned against the marginalization of literature and fought for its future.
March 13, 2017
MagazineJeet Heer
Horrible Histories
The perils of comparing Trump to twentieth-century dictators.
May 24, 2015
Nick Romeo
The Philosopher Novelist
December 19, 2011
Jacques Rupnik
In Praise of Vaclav Havel
May 28, 2010
Rochelle Gurstein
Life in a Glass House
April 11, 2005
Rochelle Gurstein
On the Shamelessness of Our Public Sphere
July 1, 1985
Robert Brustein
Robert Brustein On Theater: Combating Amnesia

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