Europe

How Isaac Bashevis Singer Preserved European Jewish Life Through Literature

David Stromberg on the Artistic Vision of the Polish-Born American Nobel Laureate

 
By David Stromberg  November 16, 2023
Baillie Gifford Prize

1848: Europe’s Year of Revolt and Revolution

By Christopher Clark  November 15, 2023
The Hub

Which European city appears the most often in literature?

By Emily Temple  August 22, 2023
Literary Diplomats

How Ralph Ellison Brought the Complexity of the American Experience to Europe

By Harilaos Stecopoulos  August 21, 2023
European History

How a Patchwork of Conflicting Narratives Created Contemporary Eastern Europe

By Jacob Mikanowski  July 24, 2023
Criticism

How Franz Kafka Achieved Cult Status in Cold War America

By Brian K. Goodman  July 5, 2023
Cartography

How a Venetian Monk Created the First Annotated Map of the World

By Meredith F. Small  June 26, 2023
On Translation

What Vera Mutafchieva’s The Case of Cem Tells Us About Europe’s Past and Present

By Angela Rodel  June 23, 2023
Travel

“The Land of the Muses.” How Sardinia Became Italy’s Island of Poets

By Jeff Biggers  May 25, 2023
Anthropology

How Did People Get to Britain 950,000 Years Ago?

By Ian Morris  June 9, 2022
World War II

The Many Wars Within the Last Great War

By Richard Overy  April 8, 2022
Refugees

How Aborted Journeys Mean Aborted Dreams for Migrants Crossing the Mediterranean

By Sally Hayden  March 24, 2022
Aristocracy

The Socialite, Property Developer, and Bigamist Who Had Everyone in 18th Century Europe Talking

By Catherine Ostler  February 17, 2022
Libraries

A Glimpse Inside the World’s Most Beautiful Libraries

By Georg Ruppelt  January 10, 2022
Victorian Era

The Glamour and the Terror: Why Women in the Victorian Era Jumped at the Chance to Go to Sea

By Siân Evans  August 12, 2021
Immigration

Mass Graves and 21st-Century Slavery: On the Dangerous Plight of Migrants

By Emmanuel Mbolela  April 22, 2021
Personal History

André Aciman: On Yearning for the Not-Yet and What Could Have Been

By André Aciman  January 21, 2021
Life in a Pandemic

Can Poets Show the Way Forward for Europe?

By Krisztina Tóth  September 1, 2020
Religion

Encounters with the Black Madonna of Lake Ohrid

By Kapka Kassabova  August 5, 2020
Writer's Diaries

It is 1979 and Ludvík Vaculík Has a Terrible Case of Writer’s Block

By Ludvík Vaculík  January 29, 2020
New in Nonfiction

In Nazism, Joseph Roth Saw the End of Europe’s Cosmopolitan Dream

By Morten Høi Jensen  October 7, 2019
Climate Change

Why Do We Refuse to Believe Climate Change is Happening?

By Jonathan Safran Foer  October 4, 2019
European Politics

Dignity vs. Money: Europe, Please Choose

By Ilija Trojanow  August 29, 2019
Excerpts

From an Army Camp to the Champs-Élysées: Bill Cunningham’s Paris

By Bill Cunningham  September 4, 2018
Op-Ed

Athena Farrokhzad: Europe, Where Have You Misplaced Love?

By Athena Farrokhzad  August 23, 2018
Personal Essay

How A Single Rosh Hashanah Dinner Sparked 10 Years of Research

By Devin Murphy  September 21, 2017
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