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Some proponents of the new “moi criticism” began writing full-fledged academic autobiographies,
Michiko Kakutani • The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
Christopher Hitchens on the cultural fatwa
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The Palestinians were making political moves and, as had been the case with the Zionists, were also finding a literary voice. They did so most notably in the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, a Palestinian born in the western Galilee whose family fled their village of al-Birwa during the War of Independence. Drawing upon both centuries of Arab verse and t
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novels as an event of adventure and social encounters.4
Richard Bookstaber • The End of Theory: Financial Crises, the Failure of Economics, and the Sweep of Human Interaction
hope to persuade you that the decline of a print-based epistemology and the accompanying rise of a television-based epistemology has had grave consequences for public life, that we are getting sillier by the minute.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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