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This course provides an introduction to modern Japanese literature through the reading of a selection of representative texts in translation. Each week we will look at one significant work of Japanese ...

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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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