Articles By Frederic Raphael
May 2017
Johanna Hanink's The Greek Debt asks if we owe the Greeks for the foundations of Western democracy—or do they owe us for their economic mismanagement?
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June 2016
Crofton Black and Edmund Clark's book Negative Publicity, which tracks Bush-era extraordinary renditions through photographs and redacted documents, is a compound of elegant presentation and rough stuff
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March 2015
A new short story.
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December 2014
Stangneth’s clear-eyed work spells out the genesis and “logic” of Holocaust denial in all its macabre absurdity
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March 2012
Greeks have been fiddling the books ever since Agamemnon. Where else do you find such private generosity and public irresponsibility?
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March 2012
The great French film director's magnum opus, Shoah, brought home the reality of the Holocaust
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March 2009
Bernhard Schlink's novel, The Reader, is both artistically and morally fraudulent. The oscar-winning film that sprung from it is no better
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About Frederic Raphael
Frederic Raphael is a screenwriter, novelist, and journalist. He worked with Stanley Kubrick on his final film, Eyes Wide Shut, and is the author of the trilogy The Glittering Prizes. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1964 and won an Oscar in 1965 for Darling.
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