Books & Arts
- April 2011
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6th Apr 2011
Peter Weir is Australia’s most acclaimed film director, with movies like “Gallipoli,” “Picnic at Hanging Rock,” “The Truman Show,” and…
- February 2011
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1st Feb 2011
A Journey: My Political Life By Tony Blair Knopf. 720 Pages. $35.00. Aside from George W. Bush, has any other Western…
- January 2011
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26th Jan 2011
Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America’s Future Stephen Kinzer (New York: Times Books, 2010) Stephen Kinzer’s Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America’s Future might…
- December 2010
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27th Dec 2010
Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History by David Aaronovitch; Riverhead 400 pp., $26.95 To understand the…
- September 2010
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1st Sep 2010
The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa By Sasha Polakow-Suransky, Pantheon Books, 336 pages In The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship…
- August 2010
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30th Aug 2010
North Korea’s ghastly art, on display in Vienna. Vienna If the painting Kim Jong Il, the supreme commander of the Korean…
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28th Aug 2010
The Flight of the Intellectuals By Paul Berman; Melville House; 304 pages; $26.00. In 2003, the Swiss-born Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan…
- July 2010
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25th Jul 2010
A Little War that Shook the World: Georgia, Russia, and the Future of the West By Ronald D. Asmus, Palgrave MacMillan,…
- May 2010
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25th May 2010
Sergio a film by Greg Barker (Chasing the Flame, USA, 2009) There is a moment in Sergio, the documentary about the…
- February 2010
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1st Feb 2010
South Africa’s Brave New World. By R.W. Johnson; Allen Lane; 646 pages; £25. “I miss the times that…
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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