In Other Words
List of In Other Words articles
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Sean Gallup/Getty Images Three Decades of a Joke That Just Won’t Die
Egyptian humor goes where its politics cannot.
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TONY AVELAR/AFP/Getty Images Meet the Persident
In surreal Russia, fake presidential tweets are much more relevant than the real ones.
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wikipedia The Russian Masterpiece You’ve Never Heard of
Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate has more to say about human freedom than any other Russian novel of the century. That's probably why it was locked up for so long.
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Travel Writing Lives!
The nostalgists are wrong -- in fact, travel writing is better than ever, and it's got more to tell us about our globalized world than dry policy writing does.
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Travel Writing Ain’t What It Used to Be
If you like your adventure stories devoid of any eating, prayer, or love, try the classics.
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Travel Writing Is Dead
Eat, Pray, Love was just the nail in the coffin. An ardent traveler looks at an entire genre gone narcissistic and brainless.
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566183_100816_Diniz5.jpg The World’s Iacoccas
The celebrity business bio is no longer a U.S. phenomenon.
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Eric Feferberg/AFP/Getty Images Bed, Bath & Bribes
IKEA's struggle to do business in Putin's Russia.
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istockphoto.com The Global Dream
With the global rise of the celebrity CEO, some new stories are being told.
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Sajjad Hussain/AFP/Getty images Slumdog Billionaires
Two autobiographies show how India's new Rockefellers made it big.
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Getty Images Venus Envy
America's ignorant, narcissistic anti-Europeanism is an embarrassment.
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SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP/Getty Images Misreading Tehran
Leading Iranian-American writers revisit a year of dreams and discouragement.
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BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images The Twitter Devolution
Far from being a tool of revolution in Iran over the last year, the Internet, in many ways, just complicated the picture.
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-/AFP/Getty Images The Real Impact of the Elections
Far from being a wipeout, the Green Movement was a historic success. Too bad no one was watching.
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MONA HOOBEHFEKR/AFP/Getty Images A Forgotten Civil Society
Reading Lolita in Tehran's Azar Nafisi discusses Iran's cultural crisis -- and how the West got it wrong.
