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Limonov

Lives Other Than My Own

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Limonov

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Who Is 'Limonov'? Not Even His Biographer Really Knows

October 21, 2014 • A new biography of the Russian political prankster/author/revolutionary Edward Limonov asks what turns out to be an unanswerable question: What's Limonov thinking, and what does he really want?

The Stranger's Child

Pity the Billionaire

The Beautiful and the Damned

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Class Acts: English Society, 'Billionaire' Politics And Indian Prosperity

September 20, 2012 • Thomas Frank analyzes the U.S. political divide, Siddhartha Deb looks into the heart of India, Emmanuel Carrere writes about the 2004 tsunami, and comic actress Mindy Kaling laughs at everything. In fiction, Britain's Alan Hollinghurst follows the evolution of English society.

Lives Other Than My Own

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Vicariously Living 'Lives Other Than My Own'

September 28, 2011 • With grace and compassion, French writer Emmanuel Carrere tells somber stories of loss. Lives Other Than My Own demonstrates that narrative is not just a vessel for what is considered off-limits in life. It can be a vessel for knowledge one never wished to possess.