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Body Count

by Alexander Kluge,Translated by Martin Chalmers,

By Alexander Kluge, from Air Raid, an account of the destruction of Halberstadt, Germany, by American bomber squadrons on April 8, 1945, out this month from Seagull Books. Kluge is…

Mauer Park

by Diane Meyer,

Operation Margarine

by Nina Martyris,

Tracing the wartime rise of ersatz butter

How Germany Reconquered Europe

by James K. Galbraith, Ulrike Guérot, John Gray, Christiane Lemke, Jeff Madrick, Emmanuel Todd,

The euro and its discontents

Untitled

by Stefan Boness,

A Kangaroo in Obama’s Court

by Lawrence Douglas,Art by Steve Mumford,

Will the Guantánamo tribunal execute a man we tortured?

A Very Perfect Instrument

by Andrew Cockburn,

The ferocity and failure of America’s sanctions apparatus

A Different Kind of Father

by Jonathan Franzen,

By Jonathan Franzen, from a footnote to his translation of “Nestroy and Posterity,” a 1912 essay by the Austrian satirist, playwright, poet, aphorist, and critic Karl Kraus (1874–1936). In the…

Führer-star Review

by Ben Urwand,

From previously unpublished descriptions of Adolf Hitler’s responses to films he watched in 1938 and 1939. The notes, written by Hitler’s adjutants as part of daily records of his activities…

Back in the G.D.R.

by Scott Horton,

What the United States can learn from the East German surveillance experience

The Real Insider Threat