Will Collins

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Ukrainian Catholic University. (ucufoundation.org)

Summer school for Ukraine’s future officers

Will Collins · September 26, 2026 6:30 am

Novak Djokovic practices at the U.S. Open on Aug. 26 in New York. (Frank Franklin II/ap)

How tennis greats try to stay great in ‘The Cruelest Game’

Will Collins · August 30, 2026 6:15 am

Then-candidate for vice president, George H.W. Bush sits with his dog, Fred, in front of his home in Kennebunkport, Maine, in September 1980. (Cynthia Johnson/Liaison/Getty Images)

What we can learn from the WASP establishment

Will Collins · August 23, 2026 5:15 am

Esterházy Palace in Hungary (Getty Images)

The next great European novelist, or not

Will Collins · June 21, 2026 5:15 am

Albania's leader Enver Hoxha in Drilon, Albania, in 1984. (AP Photo)

Artan R. Hoxha’s biography ‘Enver Hoxha’ is a plodding portrait of a Marxist tyrant

Will Collins · May 15, 2026 6:13 am

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban

Does Hungary’s opposition have Orban on the ropes?

Will Collins · March 27, 2026 5:21 am

American author John Cheever (1912 - 1982) sits at his desk in front of a typewriter at his home in Ossining, New York, 6th October 1979. (Photo by Paul Hosefros/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

When all the men kept things buttoned up

Will Collins · February 6, 2026 4:24 am

Designer Ralph Lauren and models walk on Seventh Avenue in Manhattan in 1977. (Lynn Karlin/WWD/Penske Media via Getty Images)

Ralph Lauren’s all-American cultural appropriation

Will Collins · January 1, 2026 11:05 pm

Rick Steves in Bruges, Belgium. (ricksteves.com / Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Rick Steves and the closing of the travel frontier

Will Collins · November 28, 2025 12:45 am

László Krasznahorkai (Matt Dunham/AP)

Rural Hungary’s prophet of decay wins Nobel Prize in Literature

Will Collins · October 17, 2025 4:21 am

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and James Norton in King and Conqueror. (Lilja Jons/Courtesy of BBC)

Woe to the conqueror

Will Collins · September 19, 2025 4:14 am

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Freddie deBoer’s novel approach to mental illness

Will Collins · September 5, 2025 12:10 am