Gore Vidal
An Intellectual and His Lofty Contempt ‘Gore Vidal: United States of Amnesia,’ a Documentary Stephen Holden May 22, 2014 When Gore Vidal declared in an old television debate with William F. Buckley Jr. that 5...
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Literatura
A selection of stories from The New Yorker’s archive The Story Behind the Novel Where do novels come from? Great ones seem almost miraculous; it’s amazing to think that each rich world was created within a single mind. This...
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Mark Twain and the 2016 US Presidential Race 145 Years Ago There was no possible way of getting out of it, and so, in deep humiliation, I set about preparing to “answer” a mass of baseless charges and mean and...
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Masks are ripped away in Syria Oriental Review Thu, Oct 13, 2016 In recent weeks, the battle for Aleppo has exposed the true heart of contemporary global politics with vivid clarity. The US Air Force’s...
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BY MARIA KONNIKOVA 11/03/2016 In 1920, a sixteen-year-old Graham Greene decided that, after “104 weeks of monotony, humiliation, and mental pain,” he could no longer remain at Berkhamsted, the prep school where he was enrolled....
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