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John Cassidy
If her memoir A Fighting Chance doesn’t settle what Warren will do next, it does help answer a number of questions that her political success has brought to the fore. What does she represent? Does she have plausible solutions to the nation’s problems?
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Jerome Groopman
When we reflect on the manifold manifestations of memory, the mundane becomes marvelous. Simple activities of life, hardly noticed, reveal memory as a map, clock, and mirror, vital to our sense of place, time, and person.
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Tim Judah
As people in eastern Ukraine tell me that they don’t believe that war is coming, I remember the same brave talk, the same euphoria, and the same delusions before the Yugoslavs tipped their country into catastrophe in the 1990s.
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Marina Warner
In the sixteenth century, a new focus on reading the Bible led to a resurgence of interest in stories of direct divine intervention, and Protestant Europe saw a “boom” in compendia of miracles, among them The Book of Miracles.
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Ali Sethi
A shocking debate has raged in Pakistan about the nature and power of the Inter-Services Intelligence, the country’s elusive, military-operated spy agency. It has emerged in a rare face-off between the ISI and Pakistan’s largest media house, following the attempted assassination of journalist Hamid Mir.
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Tim Parks
Most writers complain about the people who come to hear them talk. Or rather the questions they ask. It’s time to wonder whether these people are really asking dumb questions. Why are writers so determined to focus exclusively on their novels, as if there were no continuity between writing and life?
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