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This 12-pound tome can save Western civilization
If “The Golden Thread,” the brand new two-volume historical past of the Western custom, landed with a thud, it’s a matter of sheer...
Briefly Famous Guide Critiques | The New Yorker
Dawn, by Téa Obreht (Random Home). This kaleidoscopic novel, which unfolds throughout three time traces, opens in 2024, with the crash of a...
The U.S. Helped Make Europe. Can It Break It?
Walt Rostow, who turned Lyndon B. Johnson’s national-security adviser throughout the Vietnam Warfare, had additionally been engaged on postwar plans to include Germany into...
Hannah Arendt’s American Schooling | The New Yorker
Starting in 1949, Arendt returned repeatedly to Germany, however, in a unprecedented 1964 interview on German TV, she mentioned that she considered herself...
Briefly Famous Guide Opinions | The New Yorker
It’s All River, by Carla Madeira, translated from the Portuguese by Alison Entrekin (Liveright). This sultry, tortured story follows Lucy, a intercourse employee,...