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Timeless stories from our 174-year archive handpicked to speak to the news of the day.
The novelist and the terrorist
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Nathanael West's brilliant distortions
The artful warnings of Nadezhda Mandelstam
Deborah Eisenberg's big short stories
The misappropriated Winston Churchill
A history of triumph and unease
The implacable politics of Jos??© Saramago
Opus Dei and the Catholic Church
The impudent Witold Gombrowicz
Mary Gaitskill's evolution
Taste and middle-class values
Anti-liberalism in theory and practice
Cormac McCarthy and the twilight of the West
The Nazi era and the challenge of film
Lars von Trier's war with himself
A new biography revives the life but not the art
The camera as an instrument of knowledge
Joan Didion and the opposite of meaning
The unruly James Agee
The opera
Zadie Smith's novel problem
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