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Apr.13.2011 Editing Hannah Arendt's 'The Banality Of Evil' The first page of Hannah Arendt’s “Eichmann in Jerusalem” typescript, with edits by William Shawn. Draft of History Hannah Arendt’s “Eichmann in Jerusalem” is known as a New Yorker article, but the book version, still in print, didn’t include William Shawn’s edits. A look at the edited typescript...	Sep.09.2010 Overturning detective fiction: everyone's guilty in my novels The “Golden Age” of the detective story was the 1920s and 1930s. It was a turbulent period. In Britain, the General Strike. In the U.S., the Depression. Civil war in Spain, and in Germany the rise of the Nazis. Red scares everywhere, fascists too.But the detective story was a solace to those who...
Feb.24.2009 In search of myself I am still engaged in my endless pursuit of understanding how it is we human beings manage to do as much or more harm in our lives as good. My sensitivity to this question comes directly from and is proportional to my own ability to see and to own and to love that part of me, that part that has...	Feb.20.2008 The Question of Culture I've been a cultural activist all my life, so where I stand on the question of culture is clear: with Augustin Girard when he wrote more than 30 years ago that “Culture concerns everyone and it is the most essential thing of all, as it is culture that gives us reason for living, and sometimes for...