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'China's Good War' Review: Present at the Creation
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When I arrived in Tokyo in the late 1990s for a five-year stint as a correspondent, one of my biggest surprises was the near total absence in Northeast Asia of international organizations that...
'The Luckiest Man' Review: Remembering a Maverick
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The late John McCain’s paternal line was touched by a kind of tragic greatness. The senator’s grandfather, “Slew” McCain, a brilliant and courageous admiral in the Pacific during World War II,...
One Vote Away: How a Single Supreme Court Seat Can Change History
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With Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s sudden passing, control of the Supreme Court—and with it the fate of the Constitution—has become the deciding issue for many voters in the 2020 presidential...
'The Essential Scalia' Review: What RBG Admired
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In the days since her passing, much has been said about the cross-aisle friendship between Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Justice Antonin Scalia, who passed away four years and one presidential...
Craving a Fantasy Vacation? Lose Yourself in This Classic Novel
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THE FIRST TIME I read “Anna Karenina” I was in a cottage outside Stockholm the summer after I graduated high school. It rained every day for a month, and I had no one to talk to but my shy...
Why 'The Sun Also Rises' Is an Oddly Comforting Read Right Now
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FEW NOVELS evoke our current mix of frustrated wanderlust and existential crisis quite like those of Ernest Hemingway. He chronicled the “lost generation” that had come of age against the chaotic...
American Poet Louise Gluck Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
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American poet Louise Glück won the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday for what the judges described as “her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence...
