Roman

When archaeologists began excavating a plot of land in Narbonne, France, they quickly uncovered dozens of ancient Roman burials. That was just the beginning.Seven years and over 1,400 tombs later, their work has finally finished.The…

Walter Kempowski, best known here for his novel All for Nothing, was one of Germany’s great chroniclers of ordinary lives under the Nazis. An Ordinary Youth, based loosely on his childhood, has been a long time coming. It was published…

Venice: Jaw-dropping tracking shots define Romain Gavras' visceral action drama about the powder keg of racial and religious tensions in modern France. Pardon my French, but the first shot of Romain Gavras’ “Athena” — a sketch of a…