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With Friends Like These: On Pakistan

Ahmed Rashid’s gloomy, essential account of the divisive US-Pakistan alliance.

Christian Parenti

The Whitney’s adventurous, awkward attempt to explore abstract art through the blues.
Posted Apr 30 2013 - 6:20pm
How music plagiarism ruined a composer’s career and literally drove him mad.
Posted Apr 30 2013 - 6:14pm

Articles

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National Library of Israel, Rothschilds, Yad Hanadiv, Rafi Segal,

In Israel, an architectural competition and its winner have been sabotaged by the bad faith of its sponsors.

A history of how risk management profits from manufacturing new forms of uncertainty and insecurity.

The Book of My Lives, Aleksandar Hemon, Sarajevo, Radovan Karadzic,

How did everything a writer had known and loved come violently apart?

Pop & Circumstance

Pop & Circumstance

Paul Krugman, Joshua Clover, economics,
April 10, 2013 - 1:36 PM ET
Joshua Clover

Krugman affirms the way things are, no matter how often he choruses the word "change."

Shelf Life

Shelf Life

Nikolai Leskov’s The Enchanted Wandered and Other Stories; Ludmilla Petrushevskaya’s There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself

Paul Hoover

Paul Hoover’s second edition of Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology.