Special Agents: The Women of SOE
Christine Granville They ranged from girls barely out of high school to mature mothers, from working-class women to aristocrats, from the plain to the beautiful, from the prim and proper to wild...
View ArticleEverything They Cook Takes Five Hours: An Interview with Director Alexa...
Alexa Karolinski is an old friend. I first met her in 2005, when I was the editor at VICE Italy, in Milan, and she was a particularly bright intern at the VICE Germany office. Alexa quit VICE a few...
View ArticleA Visit with Patrick Leigh Fermor, Part 2
P.L.F. on Ithaca, 1946. See part 1 here. Already familiar as I was with the main events of Paddy’s military career, I asked him to fill in the gaps. What had he done while in Cairo? “My first leave...
View ArticleLonely Thinking: Hannah Arendt on Film
In 1963, The New Yorker published five articles on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi chief of Bureau IV-B-4, a Gestapo division in charge of “Jewish Affairs.” Written by political thinker and...
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