In a speech to the 12th Xiangshan Forum in Beijing, SEVIM DAGDELEN warns of a growing historical revisionism to whitewash Germany and Japan’s role in WWII as part of a return to a cold war strategy from the West — but multipolarity will win out

MARIA DUARTE recommends the creepy thrills of David Cronenburg’s provocative and macabre exploration of grief

ALEX HALL is unsurprised by the evidence of systemic corruption in the US, and unsettled by the undertone of alarm