The New York Review of Books
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The New York Review of Books (or NYREV or NYRB) is a biweekly magazine on literature, culture, and current affairs published in New York which takes as its point of departure that the discussion of important books is itself an indispensable literary activity. As of 2003, the publication had a circulation of over 125,000. The New York Review was founded by Robert B. Silvers and Barbara Epstein, together with A. Whitney Ellsworth, the publisher, and with the backing of Barbara's husband Jason Epstein, a vice president at Random House and editor of Viking Books. It was founded during the ... More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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Magazine
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Medium audience (100-500K) (English)
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International
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Left
Owners:
Rea S. Hederman | not_sure | Managers: Robert B. Silvers
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New York, NY, US
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Edited By:
Kaizar Campwala
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Dec 23, 2006 - 4:05 PM PST
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'The Unencumbered Man'
After Barack Obama's victory in the presidential election last November, the question arose whether the result should be seen as a realignment—a fundamental shift in party ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Pakistan on the Brink
The army has always defined Pakistan's national security goals. Currently it has two strategic interests: first, it seeks to ensure that a balance of terror and power is ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
The Need to Roll Back Presidential Power Grabs
In the seven and a half years since September 11, the United States has witnessed one of the greatest expansions of executive authority in its history, at the expense of the ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
The Thirty Days of Barack Obama
Obama takes particular care to avoid getting caught in traps (a lifetime trait)—some see this as avoiding taking a position—and as he began his presidency he was ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Pakistan in Peril
The Taliban have reorganized, advanced out of their borderland safe havens, and are now massing at the gates of Kabul, threatening to surround and throttle the capital, much ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Eyeless in Gaza
Israel has the right to hit back at Hamas when attacked—but not to blow Gaza to pieces, or deprive people of food, water, and medicine. In at least one appalling incident at ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
How Not to Make Peace in the Middle East
The three books offer sharp, at times unyielding critiques of the last two presidents. Yet none of the authors was a passive spectator during their terms in office. Miller, ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
What to Do
the spread of the financial crisis to emerging markets makes a global rescue for developing countries part of the solution to the crisis. As with recapitalization, parts of ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
Without God
In his celebrated 1837 Phi Beta Kappa Oration at Harvard, titled "The American Scholar," Ralph Waldo Emerson predicted that a day would come when America would end what he ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
The Perilous Price of Oil
The public is asking for an answer to two questions. The principal question is whether the sharp oil price increase is a speculative bubble or simply reflects fundamental ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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Iraq on the Edge
For the occasional visitor such as myself, various methods exist to measure America's standing in Iraq, Iraqi suspicions and aspirations, and progress in the transfer of ... -
Which Way for Hamas?
Amid the wreckage of Gaza, Hamas's officials struggle to sound upbeat. The burly interior minister, Fathi Hamad, whose predecessor was killed by an Israeli bomb, defiantly ... -
The Afghanistan Impasse
Pakistan's safe havens for the Afghan Taliban have been to a large extent responsible for their revival and growing dominance across Afghanistan and for the rising death toll ... -
Health Reform: The Fateful Moment
Barack Obama has long emphasized the importance of reforming American medical care, both as a candidate in the 2008 election and as president. During the month of June, ... -
The Red Cross Torture Report: What It Means
What is needed is not more disclosures but a broadly persuasive judgment, delivered by people who can look at all the evidence, however highly classified, and can claim ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
ICRC Report
[this is the leaked confidential report from the International Committee of the Red Cross]Posted by Dwight Rousu -
US Torture: Voices from the Black Sites
We think time and elections will cleanse our fallen world but they will not. Since November, George W. Bush and his administration have seemed to be rushing away from us at ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Google & the Future of Books
How can we navigate through the information landscape that is only beginning to come into view? The question is more urgent than ever following the recent settlement between ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Embedded in Iraq
The embed had proved surprisingly easy to arrange. No one had objected to the three New York Review articles I had sent in as samples of my work. On the application form, I ...Posted by Beth Wellington -
Iran: The Threat
Iran...with a population of 70 million and a big income from oil which the world cannot afford to lose....[is]believed to have the ability to block the Straits of Hormuz in ...Posted by Beth Wellington
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