Culture

Political theory

Forgotten value

French literature

Packing it in

American politics

Borderline case

New fiction

Slenderly

Luxury goods

Dallas on the Arno

Faust, all 21 hours of it

Goethe himself considered his two-part “Faust” to be unstageable. Our reviewer went to Hanover to see if he was right

American politics

A ruthless liberal

Archeology & the classical world

The rite stuff

German history

A personal view

Big-picture history

Historians can be divided into lumpers, who look for patterns, and splitters, who stress the singularity of events. We review new books by two of each