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No one has better summed up the American appetite for spectacle, the link between sports and politics, and the absolute madness of George W. Bush’s Iraq War.

Adam Hochschild

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To bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today’s globe.
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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I think [George] Orwell is right. There are certainly moments when political differences appear minor, and someone can claim to be non-political or to want to stay out of the fray, but today is not one of those moments.
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No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
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Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
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Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.
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I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Half-Time Walk, all takes place within the half-time show at a Dallas Cowboys football game.
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And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
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You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east.
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country’s injustices and contradictions down on paper.
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I can certainly sympathize with writers who don’t want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.
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It sure is a rising tide, and we have a particularly nasty exemplar of it in the U.S., in Donald Trump.
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If your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are
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The Messerschmitt 109 fighter plane for example, the Stuka dive bomber, the 88 millimeter artillery piece, which could be used both for antiaircraft purposes and also shelling on the ground.
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