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Volume 55, Number 8 · May
15, 2008
The
Nerve of Frida Kahlo
By Sanford Schwartz
On Frida
Kahlo, an exhibition at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, October 27,
2007–January 20, 2008; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, February 20–May 18, 2008;
and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 16–September 28, 2008.
The
Truth About Putin and Medvedev
By Amy Knight
As he
prepares to step down from the Russian presidency in early May, Vladimir Putin
has been boasting about his accomplishments. In a speech to the State Council on
February 8, he talked of the stability that his government had established,
thanks to which "people once more have confidence that life will continue to
change for the better." A few days later, during the last of his long annual
press conferences as president of the Russian Federation, Putin said: "I have
worked like a galley slave throughout these eight years, morning till night, and
I have given all I could to this work. I am happy with the results."
Displaced
Passions
By Sarah Kerr
Jhumpa Lahiri is, and is not, an
old-fashioned writer. She is too natural to be anyone's imitator. Yet the kind
of relationship she invites readers into can feel familiar from some of the
books we were drawn into long ago, when we were first learning about the good
company reading can provide.
An
Epic of the Everglades
By Michael Dirda
On Shadow
Country: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend by Peter Matthiessen.
The
Arab Spring, and After
By Max Rodenbeck
On Dreams and
Shadows: The Future of the Middle East by Robin Wright.
The
Quest of Michel de Certeau
By Natalie Zemon Davis
On
The Capture of Speech and Other Political Writings by Michel de Certeau,
and eight other books by or about Michel de Certeau.
The
Financial Crisis: An Interview with George Soros
By Judy
Woodruff
Plus: John Gross on the essays of John Updike, Kent Greenawalt
on Martha Nussbaum's Liberty of Conscience, Peter Green on Herodotus,
A.C. Grayling on Jane Goodall, poems by Derek Walcott and Charles Simic, and more.
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