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- Céline's "Forbidden" Writings:...
La Maison Française
Thursday, February 18 at 7:00pm - Writing Hell: Curzio Malaparte...
Tishman Auditorium of the New School
Thursday, October 29 at 6:00pm - The Boston Book Festival
Copley Square, Boston
Saturday, October 24 at 10:00am - Oliver Sacks: “Hallucinations”
New York Public Library, Celeste Ba...
Monday, September 21 at 7:00pm - The New York Review at Brookly...
Brooklyn Borough Hall & Plaza
Sunday, September 13 at 4:00pm - Iran: A Conversation
92nd Street Y
Wednesday, July 15 at 7:00pm - The Economic Crisis & How To D...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Thursday, April 30 at 7:30pm - What Happens Now?
The New York Public Library
Monday, November 10 at 7:00pm - The Consequences To Come
Elliott Bay Book Company at Town Hall
Thursday, October 30 at 7:30pm - The Consequences To Come
Powell's City of Books
Wednesday, October 29 at 7:30pm
The New York Review of Books Richard Dorment: With the opening of an exhibition of nine important old master paintings from Dulwich Picture Gallery at the Frick Gallery this month, New Yorkers are at most a mere cab ride away from seeing major yet relatively little-known paintings by van Dyck and Poussin, Rembrandt, Murillo, Watteau, and Gainsborough.
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A slide show and commentary by Richard Dorment about nine important old master paintings from Dulwich Picture Gallery at the Frick Gallery this month.
The New York Review of Books Tony Judt: In 1992 I was chairman of the History Department at New York University—where I was also the only unmarried straight male under sixty. A combustible blend ...
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Tony Judt on sex, from the life of an early-'60s adolescent male to the anxieties of contemporary sexual relations.
The New York Review of Books David Cole: John Yoo called the decision not to refer him for bar discipline “a victory for the people fighting the war on terror.” This is a bit like a child coming home with an F on his report card and telling his parents that they should congratulate him for not getting suspended.
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David Cole on why we must continue to insist on accountability for those who approved of torture.
The New York Review of Books Anthony Grafton: British universities face a crisis of the mind and spirit. For thirty years, Tory and Labour politicians, bureaucrats, and “managers” have hacked at the traditional foundations of academic life. Unless policies and practices change soon, the damage will be impossible to remedy.
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Anthony Grafton on how cutting jobs in fields that aren’t fashionable damages the traditional foundations of academic life.
The New York Review of Books "The architectural equivalent of Kevlar body armor thinly disguised underneath a seersucker suit." Martin Filler on the plans for a new US embassy in London.
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One of the most well-intentioned artistic initiatives ever undertaken by the United States government has turned out to be among its least successful: the embassy design program meant to present America’s best architectural face abroad.
The New York Review of Books Pankaj Mishra: In New Delhi the Foreign Secretaries of India and Pakistan met for the first time since the terrorist attack on Mumbai in November 2008; the official talks concluded with both sides arguing over what they should talk about ...
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Pankaj Mishra on Basharat Peer's 'Curfewed Night: One Kashmiri Journalist’s Frontline Account of Life, Love, and War in His Homeland'
The New York Review of Books Daniel Mendelsohn: What's striking is that so many critiques of Avatar's political shortcomings often go out of their way to elide or belittle the movie's overwhelming successes as a work of cinema ... as if to acknowledge how dazzling it is would be an admission of critical weakness.
The New York Review of Books Robert Barnett: Since President Obama’s meeting with the Dalai Lama on February 18, the details of the closely-watched encounter have been carefully parsed, from the history of the room in which the two men met to the serving of tea. Yet some of the most interesting details were missed.
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Robert Barnett reads the signs and symbolism of the Dalai Lama's February 18 meeting with President Obama.
The New York Review of Books Jonathan Raban: I went to Nashville not as an accredited reporter but as a recently joined member of Tea Party Nation. When I presented my Washington State driver's license at the registration desk, the volunteer said, "Thank you for coming all this way to help save our country," then, looking at the license more close...ly, "Seattle—you got a lot of liberals there." I accepted his condolences.
The New York Review of Books Mary Beard on the new Greek and Roman Galleries in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, the dangers of smugness in archaeology, and how to present ancient history to seven-year-olds.
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In the newly redesigned Greek and Roman Galleries at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Mary Beard considers different concepts of heroism.
The New York Review of Books Cathleen Schine: I worship at the Austenolatry shrine in general, but even so, I was not prepared for how deeply moved I was by the Morgan’s exhibit.
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Cathleen Schine on the exhibit "A Woman’s Wit, Jane Austen’s Life and Legacy,” on view at the Morgan Library and Museum until March 14.
The New York Review of Books
Hitler’s Third Reich produced no great films. Leni Riefenstahl was a
brilliant innovator and superb editor, with an extraordinary gift for
visual effects, but I would hesitate to call Triumph of the Will, or even Olympia great films, unless greatness can be confined to technical prowess.
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Himmler's Favorite Jew
The New York Review of Books A slide show from “Street Seen: The Psychological Gesture in American Photography, 1940–1959,” at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
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A slide show of images from “Street Seen: The Psychological Gesture in American Photography, 1940–1959,” at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
The New York Review of Books Alvar Aalto's work from the mid-Thirties onward marked him as a regional designer in the best sense, and the quintessential Finnish master builder. Yet In 1943, Aalto went to Germany at the invitation of Albert Speer, Hitler’s court architect-turned-munitions chief, to inspect construction there just as the Final Solution shifted into overdrive.
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Martin Filler on Finnish architect Alvar Aalto and his involvement with Nazi Germany.
The New York Review of Books Tony Judt: I prefer the edge: the place where countries, communities, allegiances, affinities, and roots bump uncomfortably up against one another—where cosmopolitanism is not so much an identity as the normal condition of life.
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Tony Judt on the dangers of "identity" in culture, academic life, and politics.
