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‘Disturbing’ & ‘Misleading’

Judging Zero Dark Thirty’s claims to journalism

Zero Dark Thirty

a film directed by Kathryn Bigelow


The ‘Happy’ and the ‘Hopeless’

Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

by Andrew Solomon


Why So Popular?

Fifty Shades of Grey

by E.L. James


The Risk of Being Too Nice

Norway’s happy warriors of architecture

Visual Art in the Oslo Opera House

edited by Jørn Mortensen

“A House to Die In”

an exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, September 25–November 18, 2012


Churchill or Bust?

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Defender of the Realm, 1940–1965

by William Manchester and Paul Reid

A Daughter’s Tale: The Memoir of Winston Churchill’s Youngest Child

by Mary Soames


Awaiting a New Darwin

Thomas Nagel’s ‘Mind and Cosmos’

Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False

by Thomas Nagel


Pamuk on the Eve

Silent House

by Orhan Pamuk, translated from the Turkish by Robert Finn


America’s ‘Wicked War’

A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 US Invasion of Mexico

by Amy S. Greenberg


Palestine: How Bad, & Good, Was British Rule?

Out of Palestine: The Making of Modern Israel

by Hadara Lazar


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