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The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga Recommended by Marie Eckert Akhmatova witnessed the tumultuous years of the Russian Revolution and survived Stalin’s repression and terror. Her elegy, “Requiem” was written in secret over three decades and was created...

Syrian government forces patrol the Khalidiyah neighbourhood of Homs, mid-2013. Photo: AFP/Getty Images You would think that, having stayed in Cairo for much of the last year, I would feel closer than in New York or Boston to the Syrian catastrophe...

The Agency’s literary ambitions shaped the industry by DARIEN CAVANAUGH Originally published on May 2, 2015. During the Cold War, Moscow’s Ministry of Culture was a master of censorship. The Kremlin’s cultural bulwark screened non-Russian films, suppressed...

RESPONDING TO HARRY KROTO’S BRILLIANT RENOWNED ACADEMICS!! Michael Mann, UCLA Anthropologist, “My mother was a very loving, warm person who I remember her getting extremely unhappy when I told her at the age of 13 I was an atheist but she was the core...

From Ian: NGO Monitor: The Role of Political NGOs in the World Health Assembly's Condemnation of Israel On May 25, 2016, the delegates of the 69th World Health Assembly (held under the auspices of the World Health Organization) in Geneva adopted a...