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The New York Review of Books Tim Parks: As a result of rapidly accelerating globalization we are moving toward a world market for literature. There is a growing sense that for an author to be considered “great,” he or she must be an international rather than a national phenomenon.

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Tim Parks on the changing nature of the novel in an era of international literary prizes and the global market.
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The New York Review of Books In our February 25 issue, don't miss the latest exchange inspired by Richard Dorment's article "What Is an Andy Warhol?" (Scroll down for all the links.)

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An exchange with Paul Alexander, Michael Findlay, Joel Wachs, and Richard Dorment, plus a letter from Rainer Crone.
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The New York Review of Books Jeremy Bernstein: Without explanation the tracker headed into the jungle, hacking his way through the vegetation to cut a path. This went on for at least another hour. I thought he would tell us that he had tried but the gorillas had gone. Then he stopped, put his hand to his lips, and pointed up. There in a tree a few... feet above us was the most remarkable animal I have ever seen.

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Jeremy Bernstein on his visit to Virunga National Park and the endangered mountain gorillas there.
Alexandra
Alexandra
Awesome. "There was a mother with a baby. We stopped to look and she held it up for us to see."
Yesterday at 12:29am
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The New York Review of Books Today marks the sixth anniversary of Facebook's founding. In our February 25 issue, Charles Petersen takes a look at the site's past, present and future.

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An article by Charles Petersen from The New York Review of Books, February 25, 2010
Bedros
Bedros
I was in Spain (Valencia) for a two week summer school on Wavelets. I was getting restless by the first weekend. What was I to read? I could not believe they had FNAC bookstores where most of the books were not readable by me. I had found a British bookstore and bought a Graham Greene book and read it already. So I was getting a bit irritated. I thought I would buy a NYT Book Review and pine over new books, as I am want to do when back home (in the Bay Area). So I accidentally bought a NYBR in a FNAC store in Valencia thinking it is an expensive NYT book review, with an unusual large size, for some reason.

I got bakc to my dorm room in the center of town and was floored at this superb magazine! The length of the articles was so impressive and the in depth nature of the writing! I was hooked. I bought 3 or 5 year subscription the minute I got back to the US. I was hooked and remain hooked until today. I am a theoretical physicists. I love the Dyson and Weinberg articles too.

When I write critical essays about Armenian movies and theater pieces and novels and biographies at www.groong.org/tcc my aim is to do as thorough a job as if I was writing in the NYRB. So you are a constant source of inspuration too and a guide to how things should be done.... See More
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Mark Sawtelle
Mark Sawtelle
I read the article on paper, but am sharing the link through FB. Best of both worlds.
Sun at 7:58pm
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The New York Review of Books Charles Simic: I have a collection of Buster Keaton’s films I bought when they first became available on video. Every few years I take a look at some of them, and recently, being thoroughly depressed by our wars and our politics, I watched a dozen of his shorts to cheer myself up.

Michael Pabich
Michael Pabich
@Kate, Cops, for shorts; The Navigator; Our Hospitality...
February 5 at 10:28am
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Many of the shorts are now available on Google Video, YouTube, and at archive.org. We've embedded a few, including "Cops," in Charles Simic's post.
February 5 at 10:36am
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The New York Review of Books Timothy Snyder: Stalin is guilty. On January 13, a Kiev court condemned him and six other Soviet high officials for genocide committed against the Ukrainian nation during the famine in 1932-1933. All seven men, of course, are long dead—but the history at issue in the case is very much alive.

David
David
Although it doesn't concern the Ukraine specifically, I highly recommend a series of short stories by Varlam Shalamov, based on his long imprisonment in the Siberian gulag. The stories are concise, brilliant and powerful indictments of Stalin's monstrous behavior. The collection is called 'Kolyma Tales' -- may be out of print, but well worth the search.
February 3 at 2:00pm
Paul A. Sturgul
Paul A. Sturgul
I haven't the article yet, but I am really impressed by Timothy Snyder - he is filling a void in my knowledge of the "borderlands of Europe." I have been reading his books on this region with great interest. He is a very good writer and brings a new perspective besides lots of facts about this part of Europe. Makes me want to visit places like Lviv!
Sun at 6:13am
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The New York Review of Books Malise Ruthven on the French debate over the “burqa.”

Ekram Haque
Ekram Haque
this seems to be a bit better argument.
February 4 at 10:02am
Reach Out
Reach Out
Seeing as they have to wear this from age 9 and then claim as adults that it is free choice to wear it or not, I don't understand how they have not questioned their conditioning. Make men wear them if it is they who instigate the theological importance of hiding your identity. Oh, that's what they do when they want to kill innocent people, or ... See Moresteal something isn't it? But for women it is supposed to have a higher meaning? I don't think so. Once you turn 9 you don't have a choice. And you can never leave this religion either. So much for 'wanting' to: they need to or they won't survive. By the way, in China it was the grandmother who bought the whalebone for the babies feet to be bound, so much for tradition.
February 4 at 6:08pm
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The New York Review of Books Ingrid D. Rowland: If the Earth has never been shy about proclaiming the instability of its surface, the creature misnamed Homo sapiens has never been shy about ignoring the message. Dubai’s 828 meter-tall Burj Khalifa skyscraper, which opened in early January, is only the latest in a millennial series of contenders for the title of world’s tallest building ...

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Upright Hubris: A Short Tale of Skyscrapers
Alice Clucas-Depret
Alice Clucas-Depret
...A reminder of Mike Davis's October 2006 article in the New Left Review
http://newleftreview.org/?getpdf=NLR27503&pdflang=en
February 2 at 10:01am
Diane Cox
Diane Cox
If we stacked up one hundred dollar bills for the US debt, wouldn't it be about this tall?
February 3 at 2:03am
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The New York Review of Books Max Rodenbeck visits the Jaipur Literature Festival, "a thoroughly cheerful jamboree, attended by giggling schoolkids, Bollywood houris, bearded ideologues and bookish aunties."

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The New York Review of Books Timothy Snyder: I’m not sure if I was in Lithuania one recent evening—and it wasn’t the sweet Russian champagne. My wandering started in the village of Krasnogruda in northeastern Poland, home to the poet Czesław Miłosz’s mother, and only about a mile from the Lithuanian border. As the full moon rose and the pines turn...ed blue under their weight of snow, I might have crossed into Lithuania. Or perhaps not.

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Alice Clucas-Depret
Alice Clucas-Depret
Is very fond of Czeslaw Milosz...He tells my story in in a reverse sort of way in his haunting poem Eurydice.....
January 28 at 12:54pm
Paul A. Sturgul
Paul A. Sturgul
I enjoy Timothy Snyder's articles and books. My paternal grandparents were born in Suwalki, in the region now divided between Poland and Lithuania. They considered themselves Poles, but I wonder if they were originally Lithuanian? My last name doesn't really sound Polish, and with an "as" after it sounds very Lithuanian. I like the way Snyder ... See Moreexplores the issue of national identity, as in his comments about Mickiewicz and Sheptitsky. I am learning much that I didn't know about the places my ancestors lived, and the people who lived there and came from there. He is making an important contribution to my sense of my own story.
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The New York Review of Books Perry Link: The Charter 08 movement continues to survive, despite extraordinary efforts by the Chinese government to repress it.

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The New York Review of Books Ingrid D. Rowland: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Pope Benedict XVI have always run a certain degree of bodily risk in their positions; the fact that they were both assaulted last month—Berlusconi wounded in the face by a sculpture-wielding psychotic and the Pope jumped at by a woman at a Christmas Eve ma...ss—was thus a matter of chance rather than any greater design, divine or human. Furthermore, violent attacks on public figures are a recurring story in Italian history ...

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Carlos A Bas Huertas
Carlos A Bas Huertas
I still see the hand of God in both.
January 27 at 4:39am
John Yohalem
John Yohalem
The Pope of course is a phlegmatic German; he reacted like one.
January 27 at 7:22am
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The New York Review of Books Join the Facebook group for Little Star, a new journal of poetry and prose edited by longtime New York Review contributing editor Ann Kjellberg.

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The New York Review of Books Ronald Dworkin: The Supreme Court's appalling decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission was quickly denounced by President Obama as “devastating”; he said that it “strikes at our democracy itself.” He is right: the decision will further weaken the quality and fairness of our politics.

Walter James McIntosh
Walter James McIntosh
This horrible decision is right in line with the political thought of the first Chief Justice , John Jay , who held that the people who own America ought to govern it .
January 26 at 10:11am
Alice Clucas-Depret
Alice Clucas-Depret
...Is worried about Monsanto and the future of food and seeds given what they tried to do in India and then in the United States inApril 2009. Is worried about Vivendi and water privatization, as was attempted in Bolivia. Is worried about corporate-sponsored putsches in countries where oil resources abound...Venezuela anyone...???
January 26 at 11:06am
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The New York Review of Books Sanford Schwartz: There is a kind of perverse magic to the art of Luc Tuymans. This Belgian painter has an odd gift for showing the world in disembodied, not always decipherable, and almost always ominous ways.

Reach Out
Reach Out
I love this
January 22 at 5:48pm
Alexandra Couto
Alexandra Couto
Luc Tuymans! Just a bit softer than Marlene Dumas but with the same perverse elusiveness.
January 22 at 6:24pm