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The Economist: Books and arts

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累计：1420 篇（自 2007-07-03 起）

更新：约6篇/周，最后更新2 天前

The Economist: Books and arts

Haiti’s history: Many trials and errors

look back in anger haiti: the aftershocks of history. by laurent dubois. metropolitan books; 434 pages; $32 and ￡18.99. buy from amazon.com, amazon.co.ukafter the huge earthquake that shook haiti in 2010, hundreds of foreign journalists swarmed into the country. they sought both to take stock of the damage and to explain why haiti was in such poor... (2 天前)

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The Economist: Books and arts

Poverty in Mumbai: The places in between

behind the beautiful forevers: life, death, and hope in a mumbai undercity. by katherine boo. random house; 256 pages; $27. to be published in britain in july by portobello; ￡14.99. buy from amazon.com, amazon.co.ukjournalists delight in metaphors that sum up an entire story with one striking image. in mumbai, itself a neat nutshell of india’s ex... (2 天前)

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The Economist: Books and arts

Murakami in the Middle East: Hundred-metre dash

you should see me with a black light takashi murakami’s new show opens with a six-metre inflatable portrait of the artist as a cross-legged buddha with dirty feet, hairy legs and a scarred shin, his hand stretched out in welcome. the effect is overpowering, dwarfing visitors as they enter. by the show’s tenth and final room, they are stepping on ... (2 天前)

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The Economist: Books and arts

Documentaries on Russia: Off balance

signs of the times why mikhail khodorkovsky? ever since his arrest on a siberian runway in 2003, many have wondered exactly how russia’s richest man came to incur the wrath of vladimir putin, his country’s once-and-future president. but there is another version of the question: why has mr khodorkovsky become the main symbol of mr putin’s authori... (9 天前)

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The Economist: Books and arts

The first sexual revolution: Pleasure principles

the origins of sex: a history of the first sexual revolution. by faramerz dabhoiwala. allen lane; 484 pages; ￡25. to be published in america in may by oxford university press usa; $34.95. buy from amazon.com, amazon.co.ukfor much of the last millennium europeans lived under sex laws that would have won the approval of the most austere mullah. in en... (9 天前)

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The Economist: Books and arts

Pakistan’s future: Resilient mess

the future of pakistan. by stephen cohen and others. brookings institution press; 311 pages; $29.95 and ￡20.99. buy from amazon.com, amazon.co.ukit seems optimistic to write a book called “the future of pakistan”; it assumes the country has one. tot up the assorted threats and its survival may look dubious: islamists, separatists, potentially stray nu... (9 天前)

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The Economist: Books and arts

Lucian Freud in London: Local hero

lucian freud is suddenly everywhere in london. when he died last summer, aged 89, he was completing plans for two surveys of his work: more than 100 of his painted portraits have just gone on view at the national portrait gallery (npg); an equal number of works on paper will soon be shown at the blaine/southern gallery. (both shows will then travel ... (9 天前)

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