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It is the singular achievement of Dalrymple, in his strikingly chaste and selfless book, to give us the lives and voices of some regular Indian and Pakistani worshippers without judgment, speculation or high-flown abstraction. He just sets the scene around them, presents some historical background and lets them tell...
I suspect that Barack Obama works at projecting that aura of postpartisan open-mindedness because he understands its political value. There's the chance his opponents will have a good idea; there's the certainty that independent voters will give him points for listening. And there's the need for...
Foes of Radovan Karadzic must wait a little longer to see him in court. The former Bosnian Serb leader, who eluded capture for 12 years until his arrest in 2008, boycotted the start of his U.N. trial on genocide and war-crimes charges, claiming he needed more time to prepare...
All through his 20s and 30s, Gorky devoted himself to a complete, nearly self-annihilating immersion in the work of one master after another. Cézanne, Picasso, Miró, Léger - he sometimes channeled their voices like a ventriloquist's dummy, but he learned their language. His breakthrough came in...
For most of his last years, Gorky went from strength to strength, making lush, abundant pictures like The Liver Is the Cock's Comb, his 1944 masterpiece in which pools of color supply a world where turbulent figures claw the air. But once the bad times began, they never quit...