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Terrorism
Fuse Book Review: “Days of Rage” — Counterculture Craziness
How can you act sanely when your country is brazenly committing genocide? Many of us didn’t.
Book Review: “The Wanting” — Ambitious and Audacious Fiction about the Middle East
There are so many characters to root for in “The Wanting” that you tend to read with your head swimming, and with an increasing sense of urgency as the senseless is revealed to have a logic of its own.
Short Fuse: Who Hates Yeats?
Critic Paul Berman’s problem with the arts plays too significant a role in his work to be written off as but the tin ear of an historian and social thinker with weightier matters on his mind; his misreading of the arts is a fulcrum of his social thinking. The Flight of the Intellectuals, by Paul […]
Theater Review: Playtime for Terrorism
by Bill Marx “The way of the Samurai is a natural way of the Universe, Ma, and to learn it, one must live one’s life from first to last in self-control. I know all about that stuff now.” — Wynne in Adam Rapp’s “Stone Cold Dead Serious” Just how far are American playwrights from dramatizing […]
Sympathy for a Terrorist?
Salman Rushdie’s latest novel wants readers to fall in love with — or at least feel sympathy for — an Islamic militant.