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Ian Johnson
Powerful new books by Rowena Xiaoqing He and Louisa Lim investigate how the 1989 Tiananmen massacre has come to shape Chinese society, and how it affected some of its principal participants in exile.
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Ahmed Rashid
For forty years Pakistan has been backing Islamic extremist groups as part of its expansionist foreign policy in Afghanistan and Central Asia and its efforts to maintain equilibrium with India. Now Pakistan is undergoing the worst terrorist backlash in the entire region.
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Susan Dunn
“I am a man of reserved, cold, austere, and forbidding manners,” wrote John Quincy Adams. Confrontational and thin-skinned, devoted to public service and egocentric, he was a supremely successful diplomat with a personality quite unsuited for a life in politics.
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Tim Page
For the past thirty years, most of Stockhausen’s music has been all but impossible to hear, and a generation has come of age with no understanding of what he once meant to young composers and musicians, who cheered him on as passionately as an older generation rejected him.
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Tim Parks
Your emails to your children, your ex-wife or husband, lovers, ex-lovers, dying parents, estranged cousins, needy friends, your self-promotional lobbying for the Pulitzer or the Booker, deluded dreams of the Nobel, half-truths for the taxman, heated exchanges with editors…
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