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Cuba silences foreign journalists

Cuba has ordered correspondents for the Chicago Tribune, BBC, and El Universal to stop reporting from the island, leaving the Sun-Sentinel the sole U.S. newspaper with a Cuba bureau.

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Inside the NYTBR

A New York Times Book Review editor revealed the publication’s secrets at Harvard last week. Gawker reports.

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U.S. gets Britain’s Remainder

Praising Remainder, Rupert Thomson found “echoes of Beckett, Flann O’Brien too,” but also “a precision, a surreal logic and a sly wit” all author Tom McCarthy’s own. The book is just out here.

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Coetzee on Claus

J.M. Coetzee applauds the intelligence and passion of Hugo Claus’ poetry, “a medium over which he has such light-fingered control that art becomes invisible.”

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