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China: When the Cats Rule 26 Aug 2013 | 07:25 pm
Ian Johnson In his novel Cat Country, Lao She produced one of the most remarkable, perplexing, and prophetic works of modern China. On one level it is a work of science fiction—a visit to a country o...
Holding Italy Hostage 24 Aug 2013 | 04:53 pm
Tim Parks If Nixon had refused to accept impeachment and had tried somehow to hang on to power, he would have been summarily removed. The same goes for any leader in Europe’s main democracies. Most w...
Why, and What, You Should Know About Central Asia 22 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
Ahmed Rashid The Chinese Question in Central Asia: Domestic Order, Social Change and the Chinese Factor by Marlène Laruelle and Sébastien Peyrouse Great Games, Local Rules: The New Great Power Cont...
Questlove’s Outward Blues 22 Aug 2013 | 03:15 am
James Guida Ahmir Thompson’s Mo’ Meta Blues is a hip hop memoir, a now distinct genre within America’s wider memoir boom; Ice-T, Jay-Z, and Prodigy have titles out, and more are coming. But Mo’ Meta ...
Almost History: Plzeň, May 1991 21 Aug 2013 | 07:53 pm
Caleb Crain At the end of World War II, as it became clear that Hitler was headed for defeat, Russia and the Western powers raced against each other to claim territory in Europe. Russian troops were ...
Turkey's Women Strike Back 20 Aug 2013 | 12:52 am
Suzy Hansen In June, the protest that began as a tiny demonstration against the destruction of Gezi Park in Istanbul’s Taksim Square morphed into a large-scale, country-wide standoff with the Turkish...
Watching Her Drown 16 Aug 2013 | 12:30 am
Francine Prose Cate Blanchett’s performance in Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine is so riveting, and the film is so entertaining, that it took me until the day after I saw it to figure out why I’d found the...
Philosophy as a Humanist Discipline: The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin, Stuart Hampshire, and Bernard Williams 15 Aug 2013 | 11:03 pm
On June 22, 2013, The New York Review held a conference to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary and to honor the lives, work, and legacy of Isaiah Berlin, Stuart Hampshire and Bernard Williams. We are p...
Getting Past 'Tough on Crime' 14 Aug 2013 | 10:50 pm
David Cole The coincidental delivery on August 12 of Attorney General Eric Holder’s speech calling for measures to reduce overincarceration and racial disparities in our criminal justice system, and ...
The Books We've Lost 13 Aug 2013 | 10:46 pm
Charles Simic Years ago, in a store in New York that specialized in Alchemy, Eastern Religions, Theosophy, Mysticism, Magic, and Witchcraft, I remember coming across a book called How to Become Invis...
