Received my March/April Issue of Foreign Affairs yesterday. Whew, another 200 page issue!
Picked up a copy last weekend at my local Barnes & Nobles. First time I've read it in years.
It is quite different, and better, as tek says. I miss the Alfred Knopf elegant pages of the older version but appreciate the much wider reach of the new version: articles on failed states, on HIV in China, and on refugees. Soon we won't be able to distinguish it from The New York Review of Books. (g)
Speaking of which, not coincidentally, there is an interesting article on ethnic slaughter in the most recent issue:
The New York Review of Books
March 14, 2002
Feature
Genocide and America
By Samantha Power
nybooks.com
And the most recent issue of Dissent magazine is devoted to the same question:
dissentmagazine.org
With an interesting article by Nicolaus Mills entitled "The Language of Slaughter" which starts with Joseph Conrad's attempts to do so, moves through Hemingway in WWI, into depictions of death camps in WWII, and onto contemporary writing on Bosnia, etc. To read the Mills article you have to go to the main magazine link above, click on the Table of Contents link and then a link to the Mills article appears. But, and this is interesting, never seen it, the url is the same as the magazine home page.
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