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A Romanian Jew who became a French intellectual, Benjamin Fondane was a man of many parts.

Gary Saul Morson on the Soviet virtue of cruelty.

Volodymyr Rafeyenko & Marci Shore about the politics of language and literature, and the experience of being a refugee in one’s own country.

Xu Zhangrun, perhaps China’s most famous dissident legal scholar, released a letter addressed not only to China’s censors but also to the editors and publishers with whom he had worked for decades. That essay, translated below, is Letter Eight in his ‘Ten Letters from a Year of Plague,’ a collection that, read as a whole, is an account of the persecution he has suffered since

Boris Groys examines Sophiology, a doctrine developed by the Russian philosopher Vladimir Soloviev.