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Dec 10, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Emily McBride His art criticism fixated on the narcissism of the entire enterprise. But over six decades, his work proved that a critic could be an artist too.

Rabbi Marty Lockshin points out that while Hanukah celebrates the miraculous military victories of the “few over the many,” and of Jewish religion over Greek culture; Hanukah has also given us a new ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

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A fifth century amulet depicting the demon-fighting King Solomon has been found by archaeologists in Turkey, referencing a book banned from ... King Solomon from the apocryphal tale “Testament ...

Jewish festival of Hanukkah commemorates ancient Jews’ victory over the powerful Seleucid empire, which ruled much of the ...

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