Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

There’s not much to Milan Kundera’s 10th novel, “The Festival of Insignificance” — his first work of fiction since 2000’s “Ignorance” — but then that’s part of the point. Revolving around five ...

Milan Kundera has a strikingly capacious vision of the novel. In an interview with Philip Roth from 1980, he enumerated some of the elements of his fiction: “Ironic essay, novelistic narrative, ...

Chinese writers and intellectuals have been reflecting on what they described as a wave of “Kundera fever” that gripped them when the late Franco-Czech writer’s works first arrived in the country. The ...