Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

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This week on nybooks.com: Architectural preservation, Obama’s record, a new film of Wuthering Heights, America and the world, Quintus Cicero’s election advice, and Gaza’s economy.
Architecture Smash It: Who Cares? Martin Filler Architectural landmark preservation, from Stuttgart’s Central Station to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Freeman House.
Politics We’re Still Puzzled Kwame Anthony Appiah On The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House by Edward Klein, and The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era by Michael Grunwald.
Foreign Policy America Forgets the World Jonathan Freedland As the debates showed, no matter who wins in November, this is an America whose world is slowly shrinking.
					Campaigning How to Win the Election Mary Beard For decades, if not centuries, Quintus Cicero’s advice has been adjusted to match our own political systems and processes. The latest translation of his “Handbook on Electioneering” is no different. The truth is that it is not quite so familiar as it is often made to appear.
Palestine Gaza: A Way Out? Nicolas Pelham The tunnels connecting Gaza with Egypt have enabled Hamas to thrive amid an external siege. Yet they are also a reminder of how fragile the territory’s recovery may be.				Film Taming Wuthering Heights Francine Prose Andrea Arnold’s recent adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel is by no means the worst. But none of the versions I’ve seen have been very good.
Symposium The Election Michael Tomasky, Elizabeth Drew, Cass Sunstein, Frank Rich, David Cole, Ronald Dworkin, Russell Baker, Darryl Pinckney, David Bromwich, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Steven Weinberg, Garry Wills, Jeffrey Sachs Thirteen contributors survey the issues at stake on November 6.