Books and Arts;Indian film;Death in Delhi; 文艺;印度电影;德里之死; Indian film-makers are tackling difficult subjects with a light touch 印度电影制作者们正以一种轻快的风格处理棘手的主题。 Jessica Lall, a model, wa

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Still in Books and Arts; Book Review;Tax reform in America;A simple bare necessity; 文艺;书评;美国税改;必须做的一件事; The Benefit and the Burden: Tax ReformWhy We Need It and What It Will Take. By Bruce Bartlett. 《效益与负担:

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Books and Arts; Book Review;New fiction from India;Lotus-eaters; 文艺;书评;印度新小说;醉生梦死的人; Narcopolis. By Jeet Thayil. 《Narcopolis》,Jeet Thayil著。 The official history of Mumbai attributes the city's rise

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Books and Arts; Book Review;Pakistan's future;Resilient mess; 文艺;书评;巴基斯坦未来;扑朔迷离的未来; The Future of Pakistan. By Stephen Cohen and others. 《巴基斯坦的未来》,斯蒂芬柯恩著。 It seems optimi

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Books and Arts;New French film;Friends united;An unlikely comic hit; 文艺;法国新片;最强拍档;独特的喜剧冲击; French film-makers are good at turning out silly comedies that foreigners find unwatchable. They have a better

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Books and Arts; Book Review;Post-apartheid South Africa;The rejected son; 文艺;书评;后种族隔离时代的南非;游子被拒在外; Sometimes There is a Void: Memoirs of an Outsider. By Zakes Mda. 有时候有一种空虚:局外人

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Books and Arts; Book Review;Fiction from Argentina;The price of love; 文艺;书评;阿根廷小说;爱的代价; The junta's policy of eliminating its enemies still fascinates Argentina's novelists; 军政府清除异己的政策至今仍

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Still in Books and Arts; Book Review;Short stories; Of moose and men 文艺;书评;短篇故事;驼鹿和人; Light Lifting. By Alexander MacLeod. 《轻量级举重》亚历山大麦克劳德。 A good novel woos its readers, tantalizes them

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Books and Arts; Book Review;Revolution in Egypt;Square eyes 文艺;书评;埃及的革命;广场上的旁观者 Cairo: My City, Our Revolution. By Ahdaf Soueif. 开罗:我的城市,我们的革命。作者:AHDAF SOUEIF。 The big themes of

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Books and Arts; Book Review;Meditations on love;Truly, madly, deeply; 文艺;书评;爱的沉思;爱得真挚,疯狂,深刻; Plato described love as a serious mental disease. Aristotle saw it as a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Ti

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Books and Arts; Book Review;Understanding language;Talk, talk; 文艺;书评;理解语言;不停地说; Language: The Cultural Tool. By Daniel Everett. 《语言:文化的工具》,丹尼尔埃弗雷特著。 For half a century an inf

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Books and Arts; Book Review;New fiction;Rings of truth; 文艺;书评;新小说;真实的故事; Gold. By Chris Cleave. 《赤子之心》,克瑞斯克里夫著。 Novels about sport are notoriously hard to pull off. It seems somewhat odd

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Books and Arts; Football and murder in Mexico;Direct shot; 文艺;墨西哥的足球与暗杀;直接干掉; This Love is Not for Cowards: Salvation and Soccer in Ciudad Juarez. By Robert Andrew Powell. 《这种爱不为懦夫:华雷斯市的

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Books and Arts; Book Review;Money and the markets;Insatiable longing 文艺;书评;金钱与市场;贪婪的欲求:资本主义的局限性; Two new books probe the limits of capitalism; 两本探讨资本主义局限性的新书; How Much Is E

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Books and Arts; Literature and its influences;Mother, may I 文艺;书评;文学及其影响力;妈妈,我能不能... New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and Their Families. By Colm Tibn.Viking; 《弑母新法》:讲述作家及其家庭

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Books and Arts; Book Review;The future of Italy:Long life 文艺;书评;意大利:路漫漫其修远兮,还需上下而求索 Good Italy, Bad Italy: Why Italy Must Conquer Its Demons to Face the Future. By Bill Emmott. 比尔艾默特的新作,

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Books and Arts; Book Review;Chile;Man of the moment; 文艺;书评;智利;谁主沉浮; The Southern Tiger: Chile's Fight for a Democratic and Prosperous Future. By Ricardo Lagos with Blake Hounshell and Elizabeth Dickinson. 《南虎:智利为民

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Still in Books and Arts; Book Review;A memoir of Nigeria;Madmen on the ground; 文艺;书评;尼日利亚回忆录;尼日利亚游记; Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria. By Noo Saro-Wiwa. 《寻找仙境:尼日利亚游记》

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Books and Arts; Book Review;A history of dieting;Binge and purge; 文艺;书评;节食的历史;狂欢和清理; Calories and Corsets: A History of Dieting Over 2000 Years. By Louise Foxcroft. 《卡路里和束身衣:2000年来的节食历

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Books and Arts; Book Review;The power of faith;Irrational belief; 文艺;书评;信仰的力量;非理性信仰; The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and ConspiraciesHow We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths.

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