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Israel: The Left in PerilAfter October 7, when Hamas committed the worst terror attack in Israel’s history, the country’s left wing braced for fury from its right. The...
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The Crash to ComeA recent Guardian profile of the oil company chief who will lead this month’s United Nations climate meeting in Dubai nodded toward the stakes of...
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‘Let Us Not Hurry to Our Doom’In the aftermath of her country’s 1982 war in Lebanon, the Israeli poet Dahlia Ravikovitch tried to represent the suffering it had caused. For the...
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Before the Wrecking Ball SwungOne sobering, cautionary revelation follows another in Lost in America: Photographing the Last Days of Our Architectural Treasures, a wonderfully...
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When the Brain Becomes Data“It is well established that digital privacy exists only at the discretion of the companies that mediate our online engagement,” writes Sue...
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Germany on EdgeMemories get blurrier all the time. Still, it’s odd that in the aftermath of Hamas’s massacre, Germany has forgotten the aftermath of September...
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Authoritarianism’s EmblemGreco-Roman symbols and slogans are often invested today with political meaning, especially by those on the right, to whom they connote...
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Embracing AnonymityIn the crowded field of German novels published in 1928 to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the end of World War I, it might have been easy to...
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A World Off the HingesIn The Earth Transformed Peter Frankopan turns the climate into a historical character whose relationship with the other characters—us—needs...
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Rough Slabs of JadeGod of a lack of abundance, wanting, bone strength, ready god,among the lemon groves your presenceis disputed. Even afterthey are picked, the...
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As Pluck Would Have ItLady Caroline Ponsonby, the daughter of the Earl and Countess of Bessborough, was born in London in 1785 and swiftly proved herself to be as...
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The Cost of ‘Order and Progress’When the Paraguayan army invaded Mato Grosso in 1864, the Brazilian province was so remote that it took an entire month for the news to reach the...
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Camus on TourNothing in a professional writer’s life more resembles the life of a traveling salesman than the literary book tour. The superficial difference...
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Hit Me, BabyLately there’s been a spate of novels written by young women that have a remarkably similar plot. I’ve been calling them the “hit me” books. Let’s...
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Zoning OutTo stand on the 102nd floor of the Empire State Building in 1950 was to stand atop the world. From the world’s tallest building you could gaze...
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Whose Country?Hank Williams—the first Hank Williams—was born in 1923 in Butler County, Alabama, and grew up in and around Greenville, the county seat. In the...
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Ed Ruscha Bigger than Actual SizeWhen the Obamas moved into the White House in 2009, one of the artworks they chose to borrow from the various national collections on offer was Ed...
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Key Westfor B.C. Remembering that little trick of lightIn “The Idea of Order at Key West”When we turn from the singing at the shore,Shine-minded,...
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No Freedom to MoveIn AD 82, when general Gnaeus Julius Agricola invaded Caledonia, the Roman army met fierce resistance from the local leader, Calgacus. Tacitus...
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Permanent War, Permanent ProtestTo the Editors: I take serious issue with the sweeping generalizations Suzy Hansen makes in her review of two books by Phil Klay [“Twenty Years of...
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No Endgame in GazaIf war is supposed to be the continuation of politics by other means, Israel’s assault on Gaza seems to be the continuation by other means of the...
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Gaza’s Blocked ReliefThere’s not enough food in Gaza. Since October 7 the Israeli government has cut water and electricity from its territory, closed its truck...
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Gorging on the Act of LookingI just missed 3-D the first time around. I was four when Arch Oboler’s Bwana Devil hit movie screens in late 1952 to huge and unexpected success,...
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Where the Mistery LurkesThis year marks exactly four centuries since the publication of William Shakespeare’s First Folio, the giant two-volume set of thirty-six plays...
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Boogie on the Higher LevelsIt seems to be impossible to tell a story about Judee Sill without resorting to overused tropes and cliche. The Los Angeles musician and composer...
