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To understand the new gallery's significance, consider the history of the DIA, as the museum is known in Detroit. Shortly after its founding in the 1880s, the DIA began collecting Islamic art. The 1920s auto-industry boom made Detroit one of the world's wealthiest cities - "the Paris of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Struggling Detroit Art Museum Tries to Reach Out | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

History Unearthed I'm surprised you fell for a 3,000-year-old propaganda trick by assuming that the "City of David" was founded by King David [Feb. 8]. It was not; he only conquered it, even the Bible tells us so (2 Samuel 5: 6-9; Joshua 15: 63...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gates, Open | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

No Europe: So What? Start with history. The modern conception of a united Europe was born in the embers of World War II and rested upon the notion that binding Germany's fortunes to those of France and the rest of Europe could end the violence that had regularly engulfed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Incredible Shrinking Europe | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

"A man's past is not simply a dead history," George Eliot wrote in the sweeping novel Middlemarch. "It is a still quivering part of himself." As an executive summary of A Life Apart - the complex, occasionally overwrought but ultimately satisfying fiction debut of TIME contributor Neel Mukherjee - that pretty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Past Darkly | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

As a prim, reserved and historic counterpoint to the youthful, debauched Ritwik, Gilby is not entirely a success. The drive of her narrative is weak in comparison to the drama, passion and unpredictability of Ritwik's existence, and for much of A Life Apart, the links between her story line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Past Darkly | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

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