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Abridged for audio. Read by the author, Clive James. With fascinating essays on towering figures from Anna Akhmatova to Stefan Zweig, via Charles de Gaulle, Hitler, Thomas Mann and Wittgenstein, Cultural Amnesia is one of the crowning achievements in Clive James's illustrious career as a critic...

America is in a new Cold War with Russia even more dangerous than the one the world barely survived in the 20th century. All of this is exacerbated by Washington’s war-like demonizing of the Kremlin leadership and by Russiagate’s unprecedented allegations. US mainstream media accounts are highly selective and seriously misleading. American “disinformation”, not only Russian, is a growing peril.

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A final African adventure from the writer whose gimlet eye and effortless prose have brought the world to generations of readers. Journeying alone, in what he feels will be his last African journey, Paul Theroux encounters a world increasingly removed from both the itineraries of tourists and the hopes of post-colonial independence movements. Having travelled down the right-hand side of Africa in Dark Star Safari, he sets out this time from Cape Town, heading northwards up the left-hand side, through South Africa and Namibia, to Botswana, heading for the Congo, in search of the end of the line.

In the past five years, Israel has mounted three major assaults on the 1.8 million Palestinians trapped behind its blockade of the Gaza Strip. Taken together, Operation Cast Lead (2008-9), Operation Pillar of Defense (2012), and Operation Protective Edge (2014) have resulted in the deaths of some 3,700 Palestinians. Meanwhile a total of 90 Israelis were killed in the invasions. On the face of it, this succession of vastly disproportionate attacks has often seemed frenzied and pathological.

An intimate account of the Spitzer administration, one man's political downfall, and the enduring friendship between two complex men. The March 10, 2008, disclosure that Governor Eliot Spitzer had patronized prostitutes from the Emperor's Club VIP sex ring shocked New Yorkers and his admirers around the world, who had celebrated Spitzer as the "Sheriff of Wall Street" and a likely future U.S. president. Ironically, one man's disillusionment with Spitzer had begun to disappear 15 hours earlier, when Spitzer confessed what the rest of the world would soon learn in a media storm of unprecedented intensity.

Operation Protective Edge, launched in early July 2014, was the third major Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip in six years. It was also the most deadly. By the conclusion of hostilities some seven weeks later, 2,200 of Gaza's population had been killed, and more than 10,000 injured. In this book, journalist Mohammed Omer, a resident of Gaza who lived through the terror of those days with his wife and then three-month-old son, provides a first-hand account of life on-the-ground during Israel's assault.

An aging judge about to step down. Aggressive prosecutors friendly with the judge. A disgraced president. A nation that had already made up its mind. The Watergate trials were a legal mess-and now, with the discovery of new documents that reveal shocking misconduct by prosecutors and judges alike, former Nixon staffer Geoff Shepard has a convincing case that the wrongdoing of these history-making trials was actually a bigger scandal than the Watergate scandal itself.

China's reform era is ending. Core factors that characterized it - political stability, ideological openness, and rapid economic growth - are unraveling.

"Consumers' Nightmares Thwart Chinese Farmers' Dream of Gene-Modified Food" is from the October 19, 2016 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Amie Tsang and Cao Li and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"Jamie Dimon: Why We're Giving Our Employees a Raise" is from the July 11, 2016 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Jamie Dimon and narrated by Caroline Miller.

Geoff Shepard had a ringside seat to the unfolding Watergate debacle. As the youngest lawyer on Richard Nixon’s staff, he personally transcribed the Oval Office tape in which Nixon appeared to authorize getting the CIA to interfere with the ongoing FBI investigation, and even coined the phrase “the smoking gun.” Like many others, the idealistic Shepard was deeply disappointed in the president. But as time went on, the meticulous lawyer was nagged by the persistent sense that something wasn’t right with the case against Nixon.

"As James Concentrates on Playoffs, and Fans Focus on Him, Cavaliers Fall to Nets" is from the March 25, 2016 Sports section of The New York Times. It was written by Seth Berkman and narrated by Caroline Miller.

"An Ancient Caravan Town in China Is Reborn" is from the March 27, 2016, World section of The New York Times. It was written by Edward Wong and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"Low-Priority Immigrants Still Swept up in Net of Deportation" is from the June 24, 2016 U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Julia Preston and narrated by Paul Ryden.

"Bank of Japan, in a Surprise, Adopts Negative Interest Rate" is from the Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Keith Bradsher and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Newark Schools to Test Pupils for Lead as Officials Cite Long-Standing Problem" is from the March 16 2016, Health section of The New York Times. It was written by Patrick Mcgeehan and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"Bank of England Cuts Interest Rate to Historic Low, Citing Economic Pressures" is from the August 04, 2016 Business section of The New York Times. It was written by Chad Bray and narrated by Fleet Cooper.

"Standing Tall behind Trump, Christie Plays Influential Role" is from the July 01, 2016, United States section of The New York Times. It was written by Alexander Burns and Maggie Haberman and narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel.

"The Path to Charlie Sheen's HIV Disclosure" is from the U.S. section of The New York Times. It was written by Colin Moynihan and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.