The study of literature is, in one sense, a study of process. Words conspiring to turn a memorable phrase, stress rising and falling in a line of poetry, events aligning in peculiar ways to fashion plot from story - such processes are the sine qua non of any literary text....

This week the National Archives of the United States released to the public a massive corpus of declassified documents related to Katyn, the massacre of nearly 22,000 unarmed Polish prisoners by Stalin's secret police in 1940. Obscured by one of the longest and most extensive cover-ups in history,...

The cheers have subsided. The Euro 2012 football championship ended on Sunday night, and by all accounts co-hosts Poland and Ukraine acquitted themselves well. The stadiums were state of the art, the hospitality warm, the competition fierce and thrilling. In the words of UEFA President Michel Platini, the tournament was...