Books & Arts
- May 2018
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5th May 2018
Novelist Alan Hollinghurst is the literary bard of modern British gay life. His 1987 debut, The Swimming Pool Library, tells…
- March 2018
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21st Mar 2018
ORBÁN By Paul Lendvai Oxford, 273 pages, $29.95 In the summer of 1989, a bearded, shaggy-haired Viktor Orbán addressed a…
- March 2016
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20th Mar 2016
Okkupert (“Occupied”), the most expensive Norwegian television show in history, never mentions the word “quisling.” And yet its premise —…
- September 2015
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13th Sep 2015
CLOSET QUEENS By Michael Bloch Little, Brown, e-book, $21.99 Several years ago, I found myself at a dinner party hosted…
- August 2015
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2nd Aug 2015
The word “pundit” has its origins in an ancient Sanskrit term meaning “knowledge owner.” Today used to describe the denizens…
- January 2015
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2nd Jan 2015
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia By Peter Pomerantsev PublicAffairs, 254 pages…
- December 2014
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5th Dec 2014
HAVEL: A LIFE By Michael Zantovsky (Grove Atlantic, 543 pages, $30) The life of Václav Havel had all the makings of…
- November 2014
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4th Nov 2014
I don’t understand what all the meshugas is about. “Who could have imagined/Such a business/Such a meshugas?” cries Marilyn Klinghoffer, a passenger…
- September 2014
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19th Sep 2014
On March 4, Hillary Clinton was asked about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s moves into the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, which…
- June 2014
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23rd Jun 2014
Redeeming the Dream By David Boies and Theodore B. Olson (Viking, 310 pages, $28.95) Forcing the Spring By Jo Becker…
About James
James Kirchick is a journalist and foreign correspondent currently based in Washington. He has reported from Southern and North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, across the European continent, and the Caucasus. He is a fellow with the Foreign Policy Initiative in Washington, D.C., a correspondent for The Daily Beast and is a columnist for Tablet. His first book, The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues and the Coming Dark Age is forthcoming from Yale University Press.
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