John Updike's ruminations about American artists and their need to "confront the viewer with something vitally actual, beyond illusion."
Like most cities, Paris's architecture is changing constantly, but there is a growing tension between the low-profile, older buildings in the city's center and the higher-rise denser construction on the périph.
Evidence of ongoing destruction of Iraq's most celebrated archaeological sites is as illusory as WMDs.
Who gets what share of the mineral riches at the bottom of the Caspian depend on whether it's a sea or a lake.
Banning part-time child labor in countries such as the Philippines may have a perverse and unforeseen effect—forcing parents to pull the children out of schools.
India's parliamentary system is in a shambles, and may only get fixed when the country's small parties put enough pressure on the two dominant one.
G. Pascal Zachary on Rwandan president Paul Kagame, whose rule "provides the clearest test case in Africa of whether an enlightened authoritarianism can produce better results than liberal democracy."
Kate Christensen looks at the wives of three famous French artists, and how their lives, "no matter how difficult, painful, or uncertain, were never boring."
James McGrath Morris reviews a chronicle of Jacob Riis's rise from poor immigrant to famous muckraker.
Charles Barber finds American Therapy "thoroughly researched and elegantly organized," but says it does not quite capture the "fascinating dialectic" between "our exterior and interior landscapes."