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These latest attacks on Pamuk and Shafak represent a return to the
These latest attacks on Pamuk and Shafak represent a return to the defensiveness of Turkey’s old military regimes; where any sort of criticism was s...

[Dones] novel does not simply investigate a unique custom. Rather,
[Dones] novel does not simply investigate a unique custom. Rather, it explores many binary oppositions—urban/rural, tradition/modernity, wealth/pove...

In his 1994 New Yorker profile of Federico Fellini, Clive James
In his 1994 New Yorker profile of Federico Fellini, Clive James wrote that one of the Italian director’s gifts as a filmmaker was his ability to see...

[Carmen Balcells] met Mr. García Márquez in Mexico in 1965 and
[Carmen Balcells] met Mr. García Márquez in Mexico in 1965 and sold the United States rights to his 1967 novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” ...