Preamble

Them

By Lewis H. Lapham

When we talk about the foreign, the question becomes one of us versus them. But in the end, is one just the opposite side of the other?

The life of Austrian painter Paul Cohen-Portheim and the forgotten history of World War I internment camps.

Turkey’s largest city has a long history of cosmopolitanism, but how does its cosmopolitan past differ from its cosmopolitan present?

To be a foreigner is to be perpetually detached, but it is also to be continually surprised.