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New this week on nybooks.com: The rise in inequality, two books about Jewish terrorism, how Europe should support the new Ukraine, and the Egyptian media’s cheerleading of a government crackdown. Plus recommendations in film, television, and more in the calendar.   SPONSORED BY UNICORN PRESS

Why the Rich Are So Much Richer James Surowiecki In the years since the financial crisis, the economist Joseph Stiglitz has been among the loudest and most influential public intellectuals decrying the costs of inequality, and making the case for how we can use government policy to deal with it.   ADVERTISEMENT   The Jewish Terrorists Assaf Sharon The roots of contemporary Jewish terrorism lie in the radical movements and individuals who roamed Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s. Two new books, Bruce Hoffman’sAnonymous Soldiers and Patrick Bishop’sThe Reckoning, explore these roots.   Ukraine & Europe: What Should Be Done? George Soros Europe now faces at least five crises at the same time: four internal ones—the euro, Greece, migration, and the British referendum on whether to remain in the EU—and an external one, Russian aggression against Ukraine.   ADVERTISEMENT   Egypt’s Media: Endorsing Repression Leslie T. Chang Four years after the Egyptian people rose up against Hosni Mubarak’s authoritarian regime, the media in the Arab world’s largest country shows greater support for strong-arm government than it did under Mubarak’s rule.   TELEVISION A new PBS documentary explores the life of photographer Pedro E. Guerrero, who collaborated with Frank Lloyd Wright, Alexander Calder, and Louise Nevelson.   DISCUSSION On September 20, Eric Adams, Darryl Pinckney, and Laurie Robinson will discuss civil rights and policing in the United States(moderated by Robert Silvers).   FILM Songs from the North, Soon-Mi Yoo’s assemblage of North Korean media spectaculars and cultural detritus, is ruminative, horrific, and surprising, writesJ. Hoberman.   LECTURE On September 29, Simon Head will give a lecture at The New School for Social Research entitled “Was Marx Right After All?”