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Alone in Cairo on February 27, 1989, he wrote: “It seems very remote now that I shall ever really amount to something in journalism.” Reading this, alone on the deck, I hoot with laughter. By Christmas of that same year, he would be dodging rifle fire on the streets of Timişoara, covering Romania’s revolution as the new star reporter in The Wall St
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had to step over supine protesters with signs saying “Dead Gazan.” Once again I had to snap out of it in order to defend Israel in public.
Michael B. Oren • Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
Many were looted simply because they were rich.
William Dalrymple • The Last Mughal
massacre of up to 1,700 Palestinian refugees by Israel’s Lebanese Phalangist militia allies in 1982 and the slaughter by Israeli artillerymen of 106
Robert Fisk • The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
The French writer Stendhal, in his 1817 travelogue, Rome, Naples, and Florence, described
Michael Finkel • The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Joseph Kony is just coming to prominence as the leader of a premillennialist force; my aorta may or may not be proportional;
Ben Lerner • 10:04
undaunted. But at his layover in Paris he meets his match: a surprise
Andrew Sean Greer • Less (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Novel (The Arthur Less Books Book 1)
“Bull-merde. You know he had a bottle of Château Sang de Juif 1942 airing out backstage to toast France’s missing piece. The English, the Spanish, the Italians. These people live to make us die.” He stuck his head out the window and hollered at the honking driver: “I’m an asshole, asshole! I’m not deaf!” And then back to Jacob: “Our only reliable f
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