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Today — 13 April 2025Main stream

Endorsement by Mayor Adams Appears to Lift Sales of Kash Patel’s Book

The F.B.I. director saw sales of his book about the government’s “deep state” rise by nearly 800 percent after Mayor Eric Adams lavished praise on it.

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After his federal corruption case was dropped, Mayor Eric Adams said he was going to “encourage every New Yorker to read” a book written by the F.B.I. director.
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Gao Ertai: The desert flower that keeps blooming

19 August 2024 at 00:17

“Some see in his critique of the Mao era parallels to today: the arbitrary rule of an aging leader, harsh treatment of dissent, and government programs that encourage people to inform on one another.” My profile of the octogenarian essayist Gao Ertai, who lived for years in the deserts of western China and now resides in Las Vegas.

Read the article  in The New Yorker online here.

Read the Chinese translation in the Boston Review of Books (波斯頓書評) here.

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