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Biden's Choice

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America’s Shameful Failures in Gaza | Ben Rhodes | The New York Review of Books   My Account Logout Site logo Politics Collapse Literature Collapse Arts Collapse Ideas Collapse Current Issue Current Issue More from the Review Events All Issues About Us Shop Literary Gifts Shop NYRB Classics Biden’s Choice Ben Rhodes As Israel’s assault on Gaza grew worse and worse, Joe Biden and his advisers acted as though they had no option but to offer their unconditional support. Why couldn’t they see the destruction they were enabling? November 19, 2026 issue Illustration by Edel Rodriguez Reviewed: Crossing the Red Line: Biden, His Advisors, and Israel’s War in Gaza by Akbar Shahid Ahmed Norton, 356 pp., $31.99 In March 2024, five months into Israel’s war on Gaza, President Joe Biden warned that an Israeli assault on the city of Rafah would cross a “red line” that would make him reconsider America’s unconditional support. At the time around 1.4 million Palestinians were huddled in Rafah, the ...
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Joseph Brodsky by Susan Sontag

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  Susan Sontag tưởng niệm Joseph Brodky Bạn có thể coi đây là 1 bi khúc về Trại Tù: Chính tại 1 nông trường cải tạo, trongg lần lưu đầy nội xứ, Brodsky khám phá ra thơ và, thơ của ông, khi đọc thơ Auden. FOR AS LONG AS "we are", we're always somewhere. Feet are always somewhere, whether planted or running. Minds, notori ously, can be elsewhere. Minds, whether from lack of vitality or from the deepest strengths, can be in the past and the present, or the present and the future. Or simply here and there. For reasons not hard to understand, the making of art at the highest plane of accomplishment during the last century or so has required, more often than not, an exceptional development of the talent for being, mentally, in two places at once. Elated by the landscapes he has been painting and drawing in the south of France, van Gogh writes his brother Theo that he is "really" in Japan. The young, as yet unpublished poet...
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