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Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan

Sigrid Nunez’s lockdown-set novel is one of the best explorations of that time so far

Humanitarianism is a political project in a political world—albeit one that conceals the exercise of power under the mask of charity.

The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslavia by Tim Judah - ISBN 10: 0300158262 - ISBN 13: 9780300158267 - Yale University Press - 2009 - Softcover

  Susan Sontag lives in a sparsely furnished five-room apartment on the top floor of a building in Chelsea on the west side of Manhattan. Books—as many as fifteen thousand—and papers are everywhere. A lifetime could be spent browsing through the books on art and architecture, the...

Hannah Arendt's life and work have been debated in the pages of "The Nation" possibly more than those of any other twentieth-century philosopher, excepting perhaps Bertrand Russell and John Dewey.

On Women

Susan Sontag’s punchy takes on women in the 1970s refused to follow party lines

This new collection of 70s journalism exposes a sexist and wrongheaded essayist with an unwarranted reputation

By Susan Sontag, Edited by David Rieff