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Hope and Memory: Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Modris Eksteins

“Humanitarian bombs,” “ethical war,” and “surgical strikes””it is Orwellian Newspeak such as this, accompanying recent military action undertaken by Western liberal states, that incenses Tzvetan Todorov and fuels his...

The Burdens of Language

Modris Eksteins

To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays By Czeslaw Milosz Edited by Bogdana Carpenter and Madeline G. Levine Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 272 pages, $30 Who is Czeslaw Milosz?...