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The Specter Haunting Alaska
By Peter Canby
By most definitions, the word "Arctic" refers to the region near the North Pole. Only one section of it lies within the United States: the part of Alaska north of the Brooks mountain range known as the North Slope. The North Slope is huge—89,000 square miles, slightly larger than the state of Minnesota—but in many ways it's a world apart, even from the rest of Alaska....
The Chinese Shadow
By Robert Skidelsky
The "rise" of China has suddenly become the all-absorbing topic for those professionally concerned with the future of the planet. Will the twenty-first century be the Chinese century, and, if so, in what sense? Will China's rise be peaceful or violent? And how will this affect the United States, the current "hyperpower"? In fact, China has been "rising" for some time (after several hundred years of "fall"), but for many years its claim to notice was obscured by more exciting events.
The Truman Show
By Daniel Mendelsohn
A film entitled simply Capote might have been about many things. It might, for instance, have been a bittersweet coming-of-age story with a triumphantly happy ending. Or the film might just as legitimately have belonged to the equally clichéd (and equally satisfying) genre of celebrity decline. The creators of the beautifully austere and morally searching new film Capote have rejected both of these obvious choices for a third that, on the face of it, is both less dramatic and less well suited to film: the story of how Capote came to write and publish In Cold Blood, the book that made his fortune. It is a choice that seems, at first, less unlikely than downright perverse.
by Elizabeth Hardwick by John RichardsonStill Separate & Unequal
By George M. Fredrickson
On When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson.
A Will of His Own
By John Lanchester
On Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee.
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