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One Hundred Years at Forty
Gabriel García Márquez’s sumptuous and tragic vision of the modern world
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Europe’s Original Sin
After a bloody twentieth century, the continent may now be ready to come to terms with its dark history
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The Possibility of a Pornographic Moralist
Caustic, excessive, self-loathing French author Michel Houellebecq skewers Western civilization
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Identity Crisis
Turkey’s most famous writer evokes his country’s schizophrenic past and its struggle with Islam’s place in day-to-day life.
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Cities in a Raw Young Century
Bombay, Tehran, and Prague, in all their madness and excess, refuse to conform to Western notions of the modern city
