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The Little Tramp's killer comedy: How Charlie Chaplin's poisonously dark "Monsieur Verdoux" drove the audience away -- and was embraced by critics and filmmakers as a masterpiece.; Andrew O'Hehir Jun 12, 2008
Clint vs. Spike: WWII racial grudge match!: A British paper lures Eastwood and Lee into an unfortunate feud. Here's the real question: Which of their films should the other one have made?; Andrew O'Hehir Jun 11, 2008
Israel's Nazi-porn problem: Hot she-wolves of the SS, rescued from the memory hole. Also: Buddhism for murderers, housewife seeks Asian stud and more.; Andrew O'Hehir Apr 11, 2008
How "Slaughterhouse Five" was born: Kurt Vonnegut's new posthumous collection reveals the seeds of a modern masterpiece.; By Steve Almond Apr 7, 2008
Guerrillas rise up in Nazi-occupied Britain: A haunting new alternative history imagines an invading German army living alongside the natives in rural Wales.; By Laura Miller Mar 18, 2008
Irène Némirovsky's life after death: "Suite Française" made her a posthumous literary sensation. But newly published work raises the question: Was Némirovsky a Jewish anti-Semite?; By Allen Barra Feb 6, 2008
Bush's old world disorder: Gone are the days when stern words by a U.S. president could prevent rash action by an errant foreign leader like Musharraf.; By Sidney Blumenthal Nov 8, 2007
Uncovering Gertrude and Alice: Janet Malcolm's search for the real Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas exposes some hard truths about the duo and biography itself.; By Christine Smallwood Sep 27, 2007
You must remember this: Ken Burns makes deeply emotional films that pluck America's chords of memory. In the case of World War II, this approach feels absolutely right.; By Gary Kamiya Sep 25, 2007
I Like to Watch: How suggestible are you? CBS's "Kid Nation," NBC's "Bionic Woman" and ABC's "Private Practice" aim to play you like a fiddle.; By Heather Havrilesky Sep 23, 2007
Conversations: Steven Okazaki: The filmmaker behind "White Light Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki" shares the survivors' stories he explores in his devastating documentary. An interview and podcast.; By Andrew O'Hehir Aug 6, 2007
I dream of living a heroic life but I fear I'm just mediocre: What can I do to realize my fantasies? Do I have any free will at all?; By Cary Tennis Apr 19, 2007
Breast cancer prevention, "Peeing Toms" and more: A New Zealand man snaps pictures of women in the bathroom, breast-feeding may help prevent cancer, and comfort women did, indeed, exist.; Catherine Price Apr 17, 2007
"Days of Glory": This extraordinary and deeply moving Oscar-nominated movie illuminates a forgotten patch of history.; By Stephanie Zacharek Feb 16, 2007
Sex slaves? What sex slaves?: A Japanese TV network glosses over the painful past between the Imperial Army and "comfort women."; Catherine Price Jan 30, 2007
Her life as a spy: Vera Atkins was a sphinx to those who knew her, but as a superb new biography reveals, the gallant spymistress of World War II was driven by personal secrets and loyalties.; By Laura Miller Jan 4, 2007
Sen. Webb, true conservative?: His novel about a war crimes trial suggests he'll join Dodd and Leahy's efforts to repair the constitutional vandalism wreaked by the Military Commissions Act.; By Joe Conason Nov 17, 2006
"I didn't like sex at all": Martha Gellhorn was a gorgeous, brilliant foreign correspondent once married to Hemingway. But underneath her glamorous exterior, her letters reveal a woman of awe-inspiring rage.; By Stephen Amidon Aug 12, 2006
"The Night Watch": Sarah Waters' grand new novel chronicles love, sex and obsession among four Britons in crumbling World War II London.; By Laura Miller Mar 20, 2006
Imagining a world without nuclear weapons: Historian Richard Rhodes talks about the atomic bombing of Japan 60 years ago, today's global arms race -- and the only way to stop a nuclear attack by terrorists.; By Charles Hawley Aug 6, 2005
Reinventing "we the peoples": Kofi Annan proposes the first major reforms of the U.N. since it was created 60 years ago, and he knows they won't please everyone.; By Ian Williams Mar 26, 2005
Hot and horny for Hitler: What drew German teens by the millions to the Hitler Youth? The uniforms, the camaraderie, the cultish adoration of Der Fuhrer -- and lots of Aryan sex.; By Jana Prikryl Dec 3, 2004
"The Plot Against America" by Philip Roth: In his most believable novel in years, Philip Roth imagines a 1940s America where Charles Lindbergh unseats FDR and the nation descends into vicious anti-Semitism.; By Laura Miller Sep 29, 2004
Resisting arrest: Six decades before Guantanamo, Fred Korematsu refused to go quietly when the government tried to put him in a prison camp because of his race.; By Gary Kamiya Jun 29, 2004
"Dresden: Tuesday, Feb. 13, 1945" by Frederick Taylor: So the Allies ruthlessly -- and unjustifiably -- firebombed Germany's most beautiful city and murdered hundreds of thousands of people, right? Not quite, says a prominent British historian.; By Laura Miller Mar 1, 2004

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