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A Certain Idea of France The life and times of Charles de Gaulle by Peter Hitchens The First Things, April 2019 Issue De Gaulle by julian jackson harvard, 928 pages, $39.95 Using pick handles and rifle butts, the police force of one of the world’s most civilized countries surrounded and savagely beat hundreds of dark-skinned men. They then threw them into the beautiful river..

#KoreaTooE. Tammy Kim The New York Review of Books March 7, 2019 Issue 82 nyeon saeng Kim Ji-young [Kim Ji-young, Born in 1982] by Cho Nam-jooSeoul: Minumsa, 192 pp., 13,000 wonMinumsaCho Nam-joo, Seoul, November 2018 In October 2016 the Korean publishing house Minumsa released a short novel called Kim Ji-young, Born in 1982, the latest in a series of works of fiction by “to..

[책의 향기]기억하는 역사는 얼마나 진실일까정양환 기자 동아이보, 2019-02-02 03:00수정 2019-02-02 03:00 ◇기억 전쟁/임지현 지음/300쪽·1만8000원·휴머니스트 기억이 역사를 어떻게 받아들이는가는 복잡한 문제다. 사변적이지만 아우슈비츠 비르케나우 강제수용소를 찍은 이 사진이 그렇다. ..

Most Anticipated: The Great First-Half 2019 Book PreviewMM The Millions EstJanuary 8, 2019 Related Books: As you learned last week, The Millions is entering into a new, wonderful epoch, a transition that means fretting over the Preview is no longer my purview. This is one of the things I’ll miss about editing The Millions: it has been a true, somewhat mind-boggling privilege ..

'현모양처’는 일제가 만들어 낸 이데올로기다 강윤주 기자 한국일보 2019.01.17 18:29 20세기 초의 인력거와 인력거꾼. 젊은이가 다리를 꼬고 앉아 의기양양 웃고 있는데, 길가에 서 있는 청년이 그 모습이 아니꼬운 듯 한껏 불만이 가득한 표정이다. 푸른역사 제공•출처 서양인이 본 조선 ..

books and cultureMaster ThinkerAdam Smith shaped how we think about markets and society. Milton Ezrati January 11, 2019 Adam Smith: Father of Economics, by Jesse Norman (Basic Books, 432 pp., $32) Jesse Norman’s important book about Adam Smith, the father of modern economics, is packed with insight, analysis, and perspective—as well as considerable color and drama. The com..

Eyewitness to a RevolutionVictor Klemperer’s dispatches from interwar Germany. By Peter E. GordonThe Nation, January 10, 2019 Illustration by Tim Robinson. It was slightly more than a century ago, in November 1918, that revolution swept through Germany, bringing chaos to a country that, in the final days of World War I, was already in desperate straits and verging on collapse..

Central Press/Getty Images A Series of Selves How Virginia Woolf’s diaries chronicle the push and pull of her private and public lives By Colin DickeyThe New Republic, January 10, 2019 Every so often a book comes along and changes the way you see a classic of literature. The Diary of Virginia Woolf, published between 1977 and 1984, came out decades after Woolf’s death in 1..

The Many Lives of Liberalism David A. Bell The New York Review of BooksJanuary 17, 2019 Issue Can Democracy Work?: A Short History of a Radical Idea, from Ancient Athens to Our World by James MillerFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 306 pp., $27.00 The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century by Helena RosenblattPrinceton University Press, 348 pp., $35...

The 10 Best Books of 2018 The editors of The Times Book Review choose the best fiction and nonfiction titles this year. Stephen DoyleThe New York TimesDecemvefr 31, 2018 CreditCreditStephen Doyle阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版 AsymmetryBy Lisa Halliday In “Asymmetry,” two seemingly unrelated sections are connected by a shocking coda. The first, “Folly,” is t..