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Charles Glass
Lebanon’s Year of Living Ambiguously
After the Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah decided to draw Lebanon into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, tit-for-tat bombings along the border with Israel overshadowed the country’s political and economic plight.
John J. Lennon
Tangled Justice
A new book examines the complex relationship between forgiveness and justice through the story of Paula Cooper, who was sentenced to death at the age of sixteen.
Frances Wilson
Irresistible Iris
Iris Murdoch’s readers return to her to understand the relationship between high intelligence, erotic extremism, and moral virtue.
Joshua Hammer
Making Germany Hate Again
In Look Away, Jacob Kushner draws a disturbing portrait of the white supremacist subculture that took hold across eastern Germany in the 1990s and now is making gains at the ballot box.
The Barrens
North Atlantic wind tries
to tear the roof off the hill,
throws all the sea’s abrasives at it,
but the tuckamore grew up
in this house, body shaped
by the timeless occupation…
Free from the Archives
On December 5, 2012, the Review published online an excerpt from the book December, a collaboration between Alexander Kluge and Gerhard Richter pairing stories that take place in the year’s darkest month with wintry photographs.
Alexander Kluge
and Gerhard Richter
December
11 December 1944: WARSAW DURING ADVENT. An unusual mood prevailed among the “last victors of the Third Reich” (as the commanders in Warsaw who had crushed the uprising of the Polish Home Army called themselves). There was not much
they could do with the ‘power’ they had. Power without time. Later they knew that it was the rule for another thirty days—how could one adapt to that?
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