Who Will Digitize the World's Books?
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14 days ago
By Jean-Claude Guédon
By Jean-Claude Guédon
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Bondage
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14 days ago
By Geoffrey Wheatcroft
... Fleming
For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond
by Ben Macintyre
Fifty years ago, a fictional spy who had gradually become famous suddenly became notorious. Dr. No was the sixth of the books that had been appearing since 1953 when Ian Fleming, a restless, cynical English newspaperman, published Casino Royale, and with the words 'The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating ...
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An Open Letter on Iran to Barack Obama (letter)
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14 days ago
By Stephen Rosskam Shalom
By Stephen Rosskam Shalom
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Rembrandt—The Jewish Connection?
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14 days ago
By Benjamin Moser
By Benjamin Moser
Rembrandt's Jews
by Steven Nadler
De "joodse" Rembrandt: De mythe ontrafeld [The "Jewish" Rembrandt: The Myth Revealed]
an exhibition at the Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam, November 10, 2006–February 4, 2007.
Rembrandt in de propaganda 1940–1945
'J'aime les juifs!' Holland's foremost painter shouts as he moves through seventeenth-century Amsterdam's busy streets. ...
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The Devastation of Iraq's Past
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14 days ago
By Hugh Eakin
By Hugh Eakin
Catastrophe! The Looting and Destruction of Iraq's Past
an exhibition at the Oriental Institute Museum, Chicago, April 10-December 31, 2008.
The Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Iraq
edited by Peter G. Stone and Joanne Farchakh Bajjaly
Antiquities Under Siege: Cultural Heritage Protection After the Iraq War
edited by Lawrence Rothfield
Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia ...
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E.M. Forster, Middle Manager
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14 days ago
By Zadie Smith
By Zadie Smith
The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, 1929–1960
edited by Mary Lago, Linda K. Hughes, and Elizabeth MacLeod Walls, with a foreword by P.N. Furbank
In the taxonomy of English writing, E.M. Forster is not an exotic creature. We file him under Notable English Novelist, common or garden variety. Still, there is a sense in which Forster was something of a rare bird. He was free of many ...
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Corrections (letter)
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14 days ago
By The Editors
By The Editors
In Ahmed Rashid's 'Jihadi Suicide Bombers: The New Wave' [NYR, June 12], it should have been made clear that the 'greater jihad,' referred to in the first paragraph of his piece, is the struggle to become a better human being and the 'lesser jihad' is to fight for Islam and self-defense.
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Justice for Bing & Bing (letter)
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14 days ago
By Steven Jervis
By Steven Jervis
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Why It Was a Great Victory
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14 days ago
By Ronald Dworkin
By Ronald Dworkin
Boumediene v. Bush is one of the most important Supreme Court decisions in recent years. The Court held by a 5-4 vote that aliens detained as enemy combatants in Guantánamo have a constitutional right to challenge their detention in American courts. The decision frees none of them, some of whom have been held without trial for six years, but it makes it possible for them to ...
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David Hare & Orhan Pamuk In Salzburg (letter)
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14 days ago
By Edward Mortimer
By Edward Mortimer
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