Word: conquest
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...critics. Bolaņo's other major novel, 2666, is even more massive and more bizarre. It is also a masterpiece, and its publication in English translation by Farrar, Straus & Giroux on Nov. 11 is the most electrifying literary event of the year. With 2666, Bolaņo's posthumous conquest of America is complete...
...literary event of the year. With its publication by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this week - adding to an oeuvre that includes several collections of short stories, numerous novellas and minor novels, and a volume of poems due out later this month from New Directions - Bolaño's posthumous conquest of the U.S. will be complete...
...would say it was deeply rooted for quite a long time when the West was more or less continuously under attack. First, it was the Arab conquest was in Spain and then the Turks in Europe. Then it began to fade, but now, of course, it has revived for obvious reasons...
...Samantha Power gets it more right than ever [Aug. 25]. Of course Putin is the real driving force of Russian aggression, and not his mouthpiece President Medvedev. While being rightly proud of its recent astonishing development, Russia is at the same time on the brink of a tour of conquest to restore its lost empire. We all know what happened the last time it did so: this Georgian adventure will not be its last. Maarten Molenaar, VEENENDAAL, THE NETHERLANDS...
...were international organizations like the U.N., there were religions-communities of faith with a global reach, whose adherents tramped from one end of the earth to the other, saving souls. To be sure, in their zeal to convert, missionaries often mixed faith with cruelty, as Spain's blood-drenched conquest of Mexico in the name of God abundantly proved. But as Nayan Chanda of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization argued in his recent book Bound Together, the great religions were also intimately associated with the growth of trade and human contact. "For all the horror it visited...