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Yesterday — 16 September 2024Main stream

Years After He Smeared Anita Hill, David Brock Has a New Book, ‘Stench,’ Denouncing Clarence Thomas

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Jennifer Szalai
16 September 2024 at 17:01
As a young conservative, David Brock smeared Hill, who accused the Supreme Court justice of sexual harassment. Now, in a new book, Brock is denouncing Thomas and the court’s rightward tilt — and contending with his own complicated past.

© Eric Lee/The New York Times

Even in our age of political disarray, Brock’s trajectory from right to left stands out.
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In ‘Romeo + Juliet,’ Rachel Zegler and Kit Connor Will Die for Love

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Alexis Soloski
11 September 2024 at 17:02
As the stars of the “Romeo + Juliet” that opens on Broadway, they will die for love. And to make that convincing, they need to become friends first.

© Scott Rossi for The New York Times

“I can joke with you, which is nice,” Zegler said to Connor. “If I can’t joke with you, how are we going to fall in love every night to the point that makes us suicidal?”

Was It Written by ChatGPT, or by a Novelist?

✇NYT | Opinion
10 September 2024 at 22:57
Three readers could pick the story written by Curtis Sittenfeld; another calls the experiment unfair. Also: Afghan women; athletes and crowds; pro-union workers.

Gao Ertai: The desert flower that keeps blooming

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By: Ian Johnson
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.

The post Gao Ertai: The desert flower that keeps blooming appeared first on Ian Johnson.

In Xi’s China, Politics Eventually Catches Up With Everyone

✇NYT | China
By: Li Yuan
2 August 2024 at 12:00
The author Peter Hessler posed a question with an elusive answer: How could Chinese society open up so profoundly while its politics stagnated or even regressed?

In Xi’s China, Politics Eventually Catches Up With Everyone

✇NYT | China
By: Li Yuan
2 August 2024 at 12:00
The author Peter Hessler posed a question with an elusive answer: How could Chinese society open up so profoundly while its politics stagnated or even regressed?
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