Iran wants to build ten new uranium enrichment plants; drawings by John Springs To western officials who have spent months trying to slow down Iran's nuclear program, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's announcement of is deeply unsettling. But the real worry may be

By Tony Judt The following is adapted from a lecture given at New York University on October 19, 2009.

By Ian BurumaThe Journal of Hélène Berrtranslated from the French and with an introduction and an essay by David Bellos, and an afterword by Mariette JobRésistance: Memoirs of Occupied Franceby Agnès Humbert, translated from the French and with notes by

By Jerome E. Groopman In the November 5 issue of The New York Review, Dr. Jerome Groopman wrote about his experiences observing interns and residents at Massachusetts General Hospital and the way that new technologies and practices have affected the

By Cathleen SchineWhen Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Presentby Gail Collins In When Everything Changed, Gail Collins picks up the saga of women and their role in the culture, economy, and political life

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By Robert Darnton November 9 is one of those strange dates haunted by history. On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell, signaling the collapse of the Soviet empire. The Nazis organized Kristallnacht on November 9, 1938, beginning their all-out

By Malise RuthvenReflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the Westby Christopher CaldwellWhat I Believeby Tariq Ramadan In April 1968, two weeks after the riots that devastated US cities following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the

By John RichardsonFrancis Bacon: A Centenary Exhibitionan exhibition at Tate Britain, London, September 11, 2008-January 4, 2009, the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, February 3-April 19, 2009, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, May 20-August 16, 2009

Václav Havel and other members of Charter 77 addressing a crowd of demonstrators marking the fortieth anniversary of the Universal Declarations of Human Rights, Prague, December 10, 1988 (Lumbomir Kotek-Joel/AFP/Getty Images) It can't happen often that citizens of one country

Charles Simic Eddie Collmar pulling his belongings across Lafayette Park, Washington, D.C., 1983; the US Treasury Department is in the background. Later, Collmar and two others built a makeshift shelter outside the Department of Veterans Affairs. (Marcy Nighswander/AP Images) "Drop

A refugee camp in Gori, Georgia, 2009; photograph by Alex Majoli from , to be published by Magnum Photos and Chris Boot in December More than fifteen months have passed since war broke out between Georgia and Russia. The war

The three gossips from The Ghosts of Versailles at the Wexford Opera Festival, Ireland, 2009 () Wexford is a small town on the sea in the south-east of Ireland and an unlikely place to host an . Yet since 1951

Obama as Chairman Mao Some China watchers believe that China's dramatically rising prosperity will inevitably make the country more open and democratic. President Barack Obama's this week provided little to support that claim. As The Washington Post , in contrast

Joost Hiltermann speaks with Nathan Thrall about the political crisis facing Iraq as it prepares for parliamentary elections in 2010 and the departure of American troops the following year. To read Hiltermann's article, "Iraq on the Edge," please visit nybooks.com,

Oliver amazed at the Dodger's mode of 'going to work'; etching by George Cruikshank from Oliver Twist An American archaeologist friend here in Rome, where I'm spending my sabbatical, was working for a time in Salerno, in the south of

Detained Palestinians near an IDF post in Hebron, photographed by an Israeli soldier () Questions of human rights abuses in Israel and the charges of war crimes put forward by the UN's Goldstone report have produced little more than the

Caribou migration, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 2002;photograph by from his series 'Oil and the Caribou' It is often argued that cap and trade legislation requires too many compromises with—and give-aways to—polluting corporations to pass the House and Senate, and that