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China seems to undergo dramatic change nearly every decade giving China watchers new stories to tell Joshua Kurlantzick a reporter with experience in Asia who is now a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace focuses on a new more nuanced and effective Chinese diplomac

Though we seldom speak of Charles Wright as a religious poet at least not as we might discuss George Herbert or Gerard Manley Hopkins he is nevertheless among the most spiritual of American poets of the last 50 years His poetry is relentlessly attendant to the numinous 8220 I am 8221 he wri

Sidney Callahan's latest book, reviewed

In 2004 Franz Wright won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Walking to Martha 8217 s Vineyard In 2006 Wright followed this success with God 8217 s Silence about which James S Torrens S J poetry editor of America has written in these pages 4 9 and which I consider brilliant 8212 many of

Why is a 14-year veteran U S Marine officer a Texan working for Al Jazeera the so-called terrorist network Jazeera is not the mouthpiece of Al Qaeda as U S propaganda claims It is the only nongovernmental 24-hour news network to reach the Arab world and its cutting-edge technology allows it

A review of essays by Anne Fadiman

Joseph A Califano was Lyndon Baines Johnsons chief domestic aide in the mid-1960s and 10 years later the last secretary of health education and welfare until July 1979 after President Jimmy Carters famous malaise speech In his acknowledgement for this new book he mentions his Jesuit formatio

Here are two incontrovertible truths about Gertrude Bell 1868-1926 she was a brilliant wise fascinating woman and she played a significant role in the creation of modern Iraq But 8220 Queen of the Des-ert 8221 8220 Shaper of Nations 8221 The original British edition had a quieter t

A review of Paul Lakeland’s latest book