… once wryly quoted a compliment from the camp of the enemy: Die Welt’s opinion that the Soviet Union “has never seen a … According to Sovetskaya Kultura, “between 1949 and 1956, 2683 works of classical Russian and Soviet literature had … and libraries, and of trash heaps which serve as collection points for condemned literature. Meanwhile three billion …
Essays
… opportunism. It is April 24, 1987. Miloševic has recently become the head of the Serbian Communist Party, and he has … Miloševic (i.e., winding up in The Hague where, had he not died of that heart attack, he would unquestionably have been … supporters of the idea of international war crimes tribunals concede that the one trying Miloševic had made a …
… Best 200 Words I Read All Week. From fact to fiction, from comedic to tragic, we hope you find as much to admire in these selections as we do. Click here for access to the complete project archive 1. My most constant and vivid …
… to the musicians, but who saves his best shot for last: “also, the bride is too beautiful!” The quip is meant to show … of our cultural divide want is confirmation rather than complication, ammunition rather than information. Cultural … rabbi from Brooklyn, who engages in acts of civil disobedience (called “rescues”) at abortion centers and Bea Blair, …
… straight down from his shoulders, he looked exactly as I’d come to picture Attie’s worthless husband. Four years … more pronounced, tension seemed to swell within the bodies pressed close in the stifling heat; the congregation … when I sat in front of the television watching reruns. She also reprimanded me for not eating breakfast until after …
Poetry
… but twice and only to give away. He then looked like a soldier or a monk—though neither calling set his mind afire as …