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Perry Link
Chinese authorities have announced that they are considering formal charges against human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang, who has been in detention since last May. His crime? “Picking fights and causing trouble,” and other related offenses, on his microblog.
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Francine Prose
Except for those cases in which I felt that a film was being used as propaganda, I’d never been particularly disturbed, and certainly not surprised, to learn that a feature film had altered a real event so as to ramp up the drama. At what point, I wonder, did we start expecting films to tell the truth about the past?
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Jed Perl
In a career spanning more than half a century, Duane Michals has worked in both utilitarian black-and-white and luxuriant color, produced slapstick self-portraits, evoked erotic daydreams, pamphleteered against art world fashions, and painted whimsical abstract designs on vintage photographs.
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Francine Prose: Birdman
Dan Chiasson: Boyhood
David Bromwich & David Cole:Citizenfour
Zöe Heller: Gone Girl
Christian Caryl: Imitation Game
Geoffrey O’Brien: Inherent Vice
Masha Gessen: Leviathan
Jenny Uglow: Mr. Turner
Darryl Pinckney & Elizabeth Drew: Selma
J. Hoberman: Two Days, One Night
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Jed S. Rakoff
One wonders whether the impact of sending a few guilty executives to prison for orchestrating corporate crimes might have a far greater effect than any compliance program in discouraging misconduct, at far less expense and without the unwanted collateral consequences of punishing innocent employees and shareholders.
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István Deák
Seventy years ago today, Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin signed the Yalta agreement. In this March 2013 review of Frank Costigliola’s diplomatic historyRoosevelt’s Lost Alliances: How Personal Politics Helped Start the Cold War, István Deák looks at the events of 1944–1945 and the origins of the cold war.
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