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  • Isaiah Berlin in London, 1978.
    Isaiah Berlin in London, 1978.
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    In Memory of Isaiah Berlin

    Why there should be a run on the philosopher’s books, on what would have been his 109th birthday today

    byVladislav Davidzon
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    Chimen Abramsky’s House of Twenty Thousand Books

    A new memoir by the grandson of a Russian bibliophile is also a great intellectual history of the 20th century

    byVladislav Davidzon
  • Aline de Gunzbourg photographed in 1934 in Paris shortly before her marriage to André Strauss.
    Aline de Gunzbourg photographed in 1934 in Paris shortly before her marriage to André Strauss.
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    Grande Dame of London Literary World Dies at 99

    Lady Berlin, a French-Jewish aristocrat, was ‘the last of her generation’

    byVladislav Davidzon
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    Stop Yeshayahu Leibowitz!

    By failing to name a street after the controversial philosopher, the city of Jerusalem proved he was right

    byLiel Leibovitz
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    Rickrolling

    Rick Santorum gets much about America very wrong. But there’s one thing he understands that’s crucial to winning elections and governing effectively.

    byLiel Leibovitz
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    La Dolce Vita

    The Free World, David Bezmozgis’ novel about a family of Soviet émigrés stuck in Rome waiting for visas to North America, explores the joys—and costs—of newfound liberty

    byAdam Kirsch
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    Nobel Soul

    Mario Vargas Llosa, this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, is a lifelong defender of ethnic minorities—and a committed Judeophile

    byIlan Stavans
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    Enlightenment, Yes!

    The controversial leftist Israeli politcal scientist Zeev Sternhell paints a damning, if perhaps uncontextualized, portrait of ‘anti-Enlightenment’ thinkers

    byAdam Kirsch
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