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On Compromise and Rotten Compromises By Avishai Margalit (Princeton University Press, 221 pp., $26.95) The Spirit of Compromise: Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It By Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson (Princeton University Press, 279 pp., $24.95)  READ MORE >>

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and ReligionBy Jonathan Haidt (Pantheon Books, 419 pp., $28.95) READ MORE >>

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Parallel Stories By Péter Nádas Translated by Imre Goldstein (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1,133 pp., $40)  READ MORE >>

The Patagonian Hare: A Memoir By Claude Lanzmann Translated by Frank Wynne (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 528 pp., $35)  I. READ MORE >>

The video lasts all of twenty seconds. We see the doorway of a nondescript apartment building, several stories high, and neighbors above peering curiously down. A newlywed couple proceed down the steps: The groom wears a top hat and formal suit, the bride carries a lavish bouquet. The camera pans up, and there she is, leaning out of a second-floor balcony, instantly recognizable. READ MORE >>

This is a review of Julia Loktev’s The Loneliest Planet, and the calendar pretext is that the movie will play at the San Francisco Film Festival on April 24 and 27. Not all of you will be able to get to the Bay Area, but, since last August, The Loneliest Planet has already played at the festivals of Locarno, Toronto, New York, London and the AFI. Still, it has not “opened” yet. That is promised for this August, albeit on a limited basis. READ MORE >>

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Reed Whittemore, who died last week at the age of 92, was a poet laureate of the United States, a professor of English at the University of Maryland, and the literary editor of The New Republic from 1969 until 1973. Below is a selection of the many reviews, essays, and poems he wrote for TNR. "A Few Ways of Pulling Apart a Poem" READ MORE >>

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