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Politics and literature

Campaign Literature

by Thomas Chatterton Williams,

From a certain angle, Donald Trump’s presidency may not have moved the United States in entirely the wrong direction. One of the few areas to benefit from his stewardship, the…

Deadly Poets Society

by Jessica Stern,

From My War Criminal: Personal Encounters with an Architect of Genocide, out this month from Ecco. The book recounts the author’s interviews, conducted between October 2014 and November 2016, with…

Briefly noted

by Harper’s Staff,

A mind so fine

by Terry Eagleton,

The contradictions of V.S. Naipaul

The voice of the lonely crowd

by Martin Amis,

Writing toward imperfect peace

by Amos Oz,

The reason for stories

by Robert Stone,

Toward a moral fiction

Engineers of a sham

by Stephen Vizinczey,

How literature lies about power

The writer and unfreedom

by Ivan Klima,Translated by George Theiner,

An Exchange on Orwell

by Christopher Hitchens, Norman Podhoretz,

If Orwell were alive today

by Norman Podhoretz,

He would be eighty-two years old. What would his politics be?

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