Unorientalized
/Anthony Burgess' first novels were a series of dark comedies set in colonial Malaya. Did he fall prey to Edward Said's Orientalist crtitique, or did he anticipate it?
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/Was General Zhukov the greatest general to order mass executions of his own soldiers? Was he the single most decisive factor in beating Hitler? A new biography opens more questions than it answers.
Read MoreAloof in Ceasar’s Empire
/In Soviet Russia, Joseph Brodsky was persecuted by the authorities, but memorized by ordinary people. In the capitalist West, he was feted by the authorities, but ignored by ordinary people. Perhaps it's just as well he thought reality "nonsense or a nuisance."
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