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Global Justice, Literature & Culture

"The Tremendous Suffering of Ordinary People"

Barbara Rylko-Bauer's A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps.

Paul Farmer

Poetry

On Pablo Neruda and Autism

Pablo Neruda recording his poetry at the Library of Congress, 1966.   Adam Feinstein, a British

Jessica Sequeira

Literature & Culture

Grieving DFW

Karen Green's Bough Down.

Nicole Rudick

Literature & Culture

Herta Müller’s Language of Resistance

A Romanian soldier guards the palace of former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.   Cristina and her

Costica Bradatan

Poetry

Light of the World

Remembering Ficre Ghebreyesus (and a slideshow of his paintings)

Elizabeth Alexander

Global Justice, Law & Justice

Bloody Abroad

In Amanda Knox's new book, teen chick lit gives way to an insightful memoir from behind the prison walls.

Merve Emre

Literature & Culture, Politics

Praying to Allah on Bastille Day

It’s as if the plane hits an invisible iceberg. Your new Turkish friend starts praying in what you assume is Arabic.

Kate Korman

Literature & Culture

Thomas Goes Riding the Silver Sunset

Your seatmate from Heathrow to Copenhagen is a beautiful young Estonian woman who, thankfully, is talkative.

Thomas E. Kennedy

Fiction, Literature & Culture

My Hungry Soul

Richard M. Cook, Ed. Alfred Kazin’s Journals Yale University Press, $45.00 (cloth) The

Vivian Gornick

Fiction, Literature & Culture

Suppose You're an Idiot

The posthumous career of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, has been a busy one.

Roger Boylan

Literature & Culture

Zigzag Ice Dragon

The author joins a slew of Chinese tourists hiking a mountain in Tibet.

Matthew Fishbane

Fiction, Global Justice

Man of Principle

During the Cold War, when communism physically enslaved half the world, it also morally enslaved

Roger Boylan

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