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- “A Swarm of Ghosts”: Anna Akhmatova’s Russia
- Saddam and his Enemies
- Ann Clwyd, 1937-2023
- Italy Needs Me: The Life and Death of Silvio Berlusconi
- ‘Time Reigns’: Vernon Watkins and Wales
- Archives of Pain: Kanan Makiya and the Politics of Iraq
- Roman Tragedy: Lucio Fulci’s ‘Beatrice Cenci’
- On the Legacy of George L. Mosse
- Slaughter Commissions: Crime Films and the Italian Crisis
- ‘Everyone Middle East is here’: The British in Iraq
- The Writing Racket: Balzac’s ‘Lost Illusions’
- On Marvin Gaye’s ‘Midnight Love’
- The Queen of Condé Nast
- American Carnage: Sarah Palin’s Revolution
- ‘The Town Blazing Scarlet’: Swansea’s Blitz
- The Letwin Amendment
- In Defence of the Italian Peplum
- The Jews in Fascist Italy
- The Haunting of Yulia
- Ezra Pound & Salò
- The Passion of Yulia Tymoshenko
- GooGoosha’s Golden Globe
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Category Archives: United States
Saddam and his Enemies
Review of Samuel Helfont, Iraq Against the World: Saddam, America, and the Post-Cold War Order (Oxford University Press, 2023) On the morning of February 13, 1991, two U.S. Air Force GBU-27 smart bombs demolished ‘Public Shelter No. 25’ in the … Continue reading
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Archives of Pain: Kanan Makiya and the Politics of Iraq
That’s the hope I still have for Iraq — that it can rediscover its destiny as a richly various and pluralistic society, a meeting ground of all sorts of creeds and groupings. That’s the hope that sustains me. Kanan Makiya, … Continue reading
Posted in Iraq, Nationalism, Politics, United States
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‘Everyone Middle East is here’: The British in Iraq
The real difficulty here is that we don’t know exactly what we intend to do in this country. Can you persuade people to take your side when you are not sure in the end whether you’ll be there to take … Continue reading
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On Marvin Gaye’s ‘Midnight Love’
In February 1981, Marvin Gaye moved to the seaside town of Ostend in Belgium, as a guest of the concert promoter Freddy Cousaert. This was a rescue mission for Cousaert, as well as an unmissable opportunity: a fan of Gaye, … Continue reading
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The Queen of Condé Nast
I: Condé Nasties On the surface, Anna Wintour took public humiliation well. It was easier when The Devil Wears Prada was just a book, even if it was a New York Times bestseller and progenitor of an entire literary micro-genre, the “Boss Betrayal” roman à clef. Lauren … Continue reading
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American Carnage: Sarah Palin’s Revolution
I: Family Sarah Palin was like a comet zooming across the American sky — out of Alaska, a blazing vision of the republic’s future. In the thick of this current political era, it is worth re-watching the first national … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Populism, United States
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