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For Albert Cossery, the world is split between those who respect a cause and those who don’t give a tinker's damn.

The news media these days look to outperform one another in their showings of concern for the lost battalion of America’s unemployed. Consult any newspaper, wander the Internet or the television talk-show circuit, and at the top of the column or the hour the headline is jobs.

Jonathan Israel's epic defense of "Radical Enlightenment" has the dogmatic ring of a profession of faith.

As our own yellow press goes from strength to strength, what can the history of slander and libel teach us?

The imaginary fascists in Roberto Bolaño's ironic encyclopedia Nazi Literature in the Americas bear a complex relationship to reality.

A fresh translation of a Portuguese classic offers a poignant portrait of a country's decline.

Reviews of the animated psychoanalytic sci-fi thriller Paprika, 9 Star Hotel and Poison Friends.

Every other week, in the pages of this magazine, Katha Pollitt collects
her thoughts in her column, "Subject to Debate." To say that Pollitt's
column is a hotbed of feminist polemic is only par

Two new books explore the work of philosophers
Emmanuel Levinas and Martin Heidegger.

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