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Claustropolis: 1984
“Claustropolis: 1984” is excerpted from a forthcoming novel. In Bhopal, I could lie low. In Bhopal, there would be instructions for me. Because I had been told not to take the express, I traveled on a local, in an unreserved bogie. The whiskey was Director’s Special, a parting gift from Gupta’s people. I didn’t even…
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A versatile genius, Sutherland crafted a seven-decade career spanning 200 roles where he played the sinister, the romantic, the offbeat, and beyond. Published : Jun 21, 2024 17:46 IST – 5 MINS READ SUHRID SANKAR CHATTOPADHYAY COMMENTS FOLLOW US SHARE READ LATER Donald Sutherland appears at the premiere of the film ‘The Burnt Orange Heresy’…
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BY MARIA POPOVA To face the question of what makes us who we are with courage, lucidity, and fulness of feeling is to face, with all the restlessness and helplessness this stirs in the meaning-hungry soul, the elemental fact of our choicelessness in the conditions that lead to our existence. That is what the Nobel-winning founding…
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…new from Monthly Review Press Defiance in a time of terror Postcards to Hitler is the story of a Munich family living as close neighbors to the demagogue who will become the primordial commander of the Nazis—as passionately told by one of their surviving relatives, Bruce Neuburger. “This profoundly researched book tells…
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– People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then.…
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ILAN PAPPÉ New Left Review 21 JUNE 2024POLITICS Hamas’s assault of October 7 can be likened to an earthquake that strikes an old building. The cracks were already beginning to show, but they are now visible in its very foundations. More than 120 years since its inception, could the Zionist project in Palestine – the…
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