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John Fitzgerald Kennedy is now more myth than man, his brief half-life enthronement at the apex of US political life, providing the basis for romance, not reality.

Camelot, the sweetly sentimental shorthand for a shortened US presidency, has generated a mythopoetry so rich it turns the stomach, clogs the intestines, and soils the historical record. With its effacing tendencies, its soppily loyal hagiographers, its ghastly, ...

The titan of American foreign policy was complicit in millions of deaths — and never showed remorse for his decisions.

Kissinger's amoral, genocidal crimes revealed him to be a faithful representative of the US elites whom he served all his life

HISTORY has been largely kind to Henry Kissinger, the ‘eminence gris’ behind some of the most infamous geopolitical interventions of the late…

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Reviews, essays, best sellers and children's books coverage from The New York Times Book Review.

Attempts to cast Said as the consummate New York intellectual miss the point that his milieu was one of global, and specifically Palestinian, anticolonial struggle.

A rift has emerged between Nato and Ukraine as Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticised the alliance’s delays for the country to join Nato as “unprecedented and absurd”.