The Two Elizabeths
The queen presided over the death of a British world and yet was enormously successful in keeping alive the monarchy that symbolized it.
Last Poem
A poem by Emily Berry
‘She Captured All Before Her’
It used to be that people complained how little they knew of Queen Elizabeth. Toward the end, her remoteness was treasured.
Silences and Scars
Two new books on Berlin track the city through decades of growth, economic desperation, artistic innovation, Nazi terror, political division, and reunification.
Berlin: Life and Death in the City at the Center of the World by Sinclair McKay
The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin by Kirsty Bell
Lucky Guy
Jared Kushner’s anti-ideological ideology is to get the best deal for whomever he represents—the business he was born into, the business he married into, and, most of all, himself.
Breaking History: A White House Memoir by Jared Kushner
Boomers Daily 