A young editor withstood a decade of online abuse. Now she’s fighting back — on Wikipedia itself. By Andrew McMillen.

Ben Hutchinson reviews “Goethe: Life as a Work of Art” by Rüdiger Safranski as translated by David Dollenmayer.

Having experienced both Nazi and Communist rule, Poland’s great exile poet arrived at a unique blend of skepticism and sincerity. By Adam Kirsch.

Brzezinski was a Polish-born American who served in both the Carter and Lyndon Johnson administrations.

Alice Kaplan tells the life story of L’Étranger (The Outsider in Britain, The Stranger in the United States) with verve and insight.

H.R. McMaster is one of the United States’ most astute theorists of modern warfare. Unlike so many other military thinkers, he understands that history is complex, contingent, and irrational, and that no amount of technological superiority could tame the real world’s unpredictable dynamism. So how could he have gotten it so wrong? Why, in spite of his sophistication, did his solutions to the American disasters in Iraq and Afghanistan ultimately fail to produce even medium-term victory? By Daniel Bessner.

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On a recent afternoon in Boston, Betsy Fermano walked through an exhibition titled “Ernest Hemingway: Between Two Wars” at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum. Among the artifacts—vintage photos, paintings, and handwritten stories from Hemingway—she spotted a family name in a manuscript on display: Coates.

Dr. John Wilkins’ lunar ambitions were a little too lofty. By Natalie Zarrelli.

What does it mean to be strong? Chinelo Okparanta looks at six West African books that each take a unique look at relationships.

A lot of people I run into have all kinds of misconceptions about what pulp-era scifi, from the 1920s-1950s, was actually like....

Tim Parks reviews “The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of ‘Les Misérables’” by David Bellos.

Conservationist and author Kuki Gallmann, 73, was shot and wounded on Sunday morning in Kenya as she was inspecting damage committed by arsonists to her property, an expansive conservation park in Western Laikipia, in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley.

Glimpsed through the lens of Guite’s biography, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” constitutes the “involucrum” of Coleridge’s existential chrysalis. By Kelly Grovier.

In 1985, Neil Postman observed an America imprisoned by its own need for amusement. He was, it turns out, extremely prescient. By Megan Garber.

Terry Southern’s life in letters. By Will Stephenson. (Mar. 22, 2016)

What the neuroscientist is discovering is both humbling and frightening him. By Steve Paulson.

By satirising it in long, amusing letters, written to be circulated among her friends, according to Kathy Chamberlain. By Frances Wilson.

Andrzej Sapkowski has something of a reputation. To start with, he's a big deal. He invented Geralt, witchers, Triss, Ciri, the whole thing - it all came out of his head. He has won awards and his work is revered, especially in Poland. More than once I've heard him described as the Polish Tolkien. But I've also heard he can be difficult - and I'm on my way to meet him. "Good luck Robert. He is not the most pleasant person in the world…" one Twitter follower warns. "Good luck, you're gonna need it," says another.

Original, painstaking, sometimes frustrating and often dazzling. Foucault’s work on power matters now more than ever. By Colin Koopman.