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How the Case for Austerity Has Crumbled

The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire by Neil Irwin Penguin, 430 pp., $29.95                            …
PUBLISHED: June 6, 2013
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2667 words)

The Bombers’ World

This article will appear in The New York Review’s June 6, 2013 issue. Dmitry Kostyukov/The New York Times From left: Anzor Tsarnaev and Zebeidat Tsarnaev, the parents of the alleged Boston…
PUBLISHED: June 6, 2013
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2048 words)

Scientology: The Story

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright Knopf, 430 pp., $28.95                          …
PUBLISHED: April 25, 2013
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2033 words)

The Apotheosis of Martin Luther King

The decaying, downtown shopping section of memphis still another Main Street lay, the weekend before Martin Luther King s funeral, under a siege. The deranging curfew and that state of civic…
PUBLISHED: May 9, 1968
LENGTH: 1 minutes (495 words)

The Nightmare of the West Memphis Three

Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996), Paradise Lost 2: Revelations (2000), Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011) three films directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky HBO, three…
PUBLISHED: April 4, 2013
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2547 words)

Don’t Cry for Me, Venezuela

Ch vez, un hombre que anda por ah : Una entrevista con Hugo Ch vez by Aleida Guevara Ocean Press, 145 pp., $14.95 Hugo Ch vez sin uniforme: Una historia
PUBLISHED: Oct. 6, 2005
LENGTH: 2 minutes (554 words)

What Is a Good Life?

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York/Art Resource Georges Seurat: Study for ‘A Sunday on La Grande Jatte,’ 1884 Morality and HappinessPlato and Aristotle treated morality as a genre of…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 10, 2011
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1886 words)

50 Years

Ronald Dworkin (1931–2013) John Earle Ronald Dworkin, Martha’s Vineyard, August 2005 Ronald Dworkin, who died on February 14 at the age of eighty-one, published over one hundred articles, reviews,…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 14, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1023 words)

Egypt: The Rule of the Brotherhood

1. One turns to many sources to understand the character of Mohamed Morsi, the Egyptian president. There are his longtime fellow members in the Muslim Brotherhood, with whom he served time in Hosni…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 7, 2013
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1822 words)
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