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Siri Hustvedt’s “The Sorrows of an American”
“Dream economies are frugal. The smoking sky on September eleventh, the television images from Iraq, the bombs that burst on the beach where my father had dug himself a trench in February 1945 burned in unison on the familiar ground of rural Minnesota. Three detonations. Three men of three generations together in a house... »
Bernard-Henri Lévy Faces off With Mark Danner on the Forces of Good and Evil
Do we inhabit a post-ideological world? That was the question moderator Caroline Weber posed to the French intellectual known simply as “BHL” and his American pairing for the conference, Mark Danner (who humbly requested to be referred to as “M-D” in a French accent for the remainder of the panel.) In true BHL fashion, Lévy arrived in... »