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Jan.05.2013
Newsweek hasn't been a news weekly for a while now. In this devoted reader's mind, it's been a journalistic sham since Tina Brown took over and the magazine had to carry the blogger baggage of The Daily Beast.
In this final edition, Brown does give credit to Christopher Dickey for...
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Jan.05.2013
Newsweek hasn't been a news weekly for a while now. In this devoted reader's mind, it's been a journalistic sham since Tina Brown took over and the magazine had to carry the blogger baggage of The Daily Beast.
In this final edition, Brown does give credit to Christopher Dickey for...
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Sep.18.2012
Ennui, more than rage. How many Muslims with open mouths does the world want to look at? What demons, what paranoia is it?
Why can't I get to see Terry Jones on a magic carpet burning a book and spreading its ashes on the 'secular' believers? Oh, we are not like that. That is Rick Samtorum, Pam...
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Jun.30.2011
Making a cult figure into a caricature is par for the course and in fact an ‘occupational hazard’. So, doing a ‘Diana at 50’ is not quite as repulsive as the devotees of divadom would like to believe. What is a tad ugh is that it appears in Newsweek and not Hello or Ok or Vanity Fair or Marie...
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Jun.23.2011
I've said it before: I haven't been a big fan of NEWSWEEK since Tina Brown became its editor; still, it's better now than the royal mess it was. Its limitations remain those of a society with a thirty-second attention span and a blogosphere with cranky, sensationalistic rants.
Why do I read it?...
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Aug.13.2010
It's always interesting to scan through sanctioned reading lists. Partly to see if there's an agenda to be ferreted out, partly to get a sense of tastes. NEWSWEEK, in its book edition, names some 37 books they see as important reads. By my count, only ten are fiction. The others are political,...
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Aug.12.2010
With the publishing industry reeling like Leonard Cohen's "Bird On A Wire" drunk, it's not surprising that writers are looking for alternatives, and some are making hay of the opportunity. NEWSWEEK leads this article with writer Boyd Morrison, and his Kindle book, The Ark. Soon after...
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Aug.11.2010
NEWSWEEK's profile of these two new memoirs plays to the U.S.'s fascination with this literary genre.
Okay, maybe it's the cynic in me, but this shelf of the book store is perfect for those who feel compelled to wallow in victimization. Like many memoirs, these two - and I won't bother naming...
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Aug.10.2010
Like Salinger, Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) has retained his hold on the U.S. imagination. That hisThe Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn has been banned over the last century-plus - for varying reasons - would no doubt please the author.
The U.S. is a country that, in wholesale fashion, superficially...
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Aug.09.2010
NEWSWEEK's article about J.D. Salinger is in part because of his famous book, The Catcher In The Rye, in part because of the mystique grown about the reclusive writer. And partly because of two new literary event regarding Salinger, a two-hour documentary, Salinger, and a new, extensive biography, ...
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