Books of The Times: Triumph of Willful Blindness to the Horror of History
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Two new books offer correctives to evasions and distortions of the Riefenstahl myth.
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Putting the recent collapse in perspective.
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Comment is free: George Monbiot:  A cabal of intellectuals and elitists hijacked the economic debate, and now we are dealing with the catastrophic effects.
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Philip Shenonâs book chronicles the human frailty and folly that went into âThe 9/11 Report.â
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Life hardens us and art desensitizes us. Is the culture of violence turning us into creatures without empathy? Commentary by Tony Long.
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This wrenching political thriller lends a human face to an upheaval so savage it seemed beyond the realm of imagination when news of it filtered into the West.
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V. S. Naipaul (Photograph: Eamonn McCabe/Camera Press) A quick hike through the Sunday (and a few non-Sunday) book review sections. The Times of London William Dalrymple reads V.S. Naipaulâs new book of essays, â A Writerâs People: A Way of Looking and Feeling,â and calls it âa grand old manâs book: meandering, ponderous and pedantic, full of narcissism [...].
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A new book examines the reality and the myths surrounding the legacy of Thomas Alva Edison.
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In the shrinking world of 24-hour global  news, every kidnapping and atrocity can present a painful  ethical dilemma for the media -- does depicting these horrors  turn them into tools of the perpetrators?
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History smells if it doesn't exactly stink. In recent days, as the family is away in Pakistan, I have been amassing old books.
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Comment is free: Mark Lawson: The latest book of the year shortlist can't disguise the prejudices that threaten literature
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Historical fiction is a difficult genre to get right. Neglect research and facts at your peril, because someone is sure to accuse you of dilettantism.
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Susan Faludi was visiting the Historical Societyâs exhibition of photographs and artifacts from the World Trade Center attacks and talking about her work âThe Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America,â out next week from Metropolitan Books.
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The formerly outrÃ©, freaky and unthinkable now constitute business as usual in popular culture. And these have become outright selling points for books that eagerly capitalize on their kinks.
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Comment is free: Zoe Williams: The criteria for literary excellence have changed, and cantankerous critics must catch up or shut up.
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"Two Histories of England" (Ecco, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publications, 184 pages, $16.95), by Jane Austen and Charles Dickens: Not interested in English history? Just a dull list of kings and dates? No relevance to problems of today? Think again.
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Are games based on the Vietnam conflict making us immune to realities of history?