Monthly Archives: November 2023

Muggeridge, Hitchens & Teresa of Calcutta

So, it’s back to Malcolm Muggeridge: this is an old documentary by Christopher Hitchens, on his old bete noire, Mother Teresa of Calcutta. It may be that Teresa’s elevation to living sainthood was, as Hitchens argues, partly the work of … Continue reading

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Bad Propagandist, Nobel-Prize Version

The subtle way of putting it is the way The New Republic put it in this 2016 subtitle: Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich crafts myths, not histories. So nice. There are other ways of putting it (shameless liar, dirty seller of … Continue reading

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A Dance to the Music of Anthony Powell

While watching the old TV version of Anthony Powell’s 12-volume cycle “A Dance to the Music of Time,” I was struck by the many similarities the characters and at least some of the narrative arcs present with other works of … Continue reading

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