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Who were these unnamed liberals in addition to Khamenei? One was certainly parliamentary Speaker Hashemi Rafsanjani, who has hinted that Iran should have ended the war in 1982, after driving the invading Iraqis out of its territory. Within days, he too chimed in with an attack on the West. "We...
Barry Lopez's Arctic Dreams was the surprise winner of the 1986 American Book Award for nonfiction. This collection of short pieces about the American Southwest, Alaska, endangered wildlife and forgotten cultures is in the same vein. Much of the ground covered is by now well trodden, though Lopez has...
In other circles, of course, that image of hippie looseness is exactly what draws people to Esalen. As the institute's co-founder and chairman Michael Murphy cheerfully admits, "Esalen's reputation gets better the farther away you go." These days up to half the people who stay for a...
Gauguin's stay in Tahiti and the Marquesas from 1891 to 1903 is by now one of the soap operas of art history. Yet the curious fact, as Varnedoe points out in a brilliant catalog essay, was that Polynesian art made virtually no impact on his painting; all its...
Although he has dabbled elegantly in many literary forms, Author Gore Vidal is probably most impressive as a historical novelist. Not only does he do his homework, but he can make old facts look like contemporary gossip. And he takes wicked pleasure in turning accepted notions about the past upside...