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Hazanavicius for his latest film adapted the Second World War novel of the same title by Jean-Claude Grumberg that is set against the events of the Holocaust and told with magical realism.
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Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Apr. 2024
In the decades following the Second World War, resource consumption skyrocketed—a development that’s become known as the Great Acceleration.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2024
Gathered below are a handful of images of some of the many ways people put bicycles to use during the Second World War.
—Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2024
Defense work during the Second World War adapted those insights to military ends: devising uncrackable cryptography, resisting signal jamming, reducing interference in anti-aircraft radar systems.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
With a post-stock market crash-depression and a dustbowl ensuing ,and a Second World War looming, the democratic ideals of Ancient Greece fueled the escapist arts of the era.
—Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2024
In the near term, the CBO expects debt as a percentage of GDP to exceed the record peak of the Second World War by 2029.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2024
One boy in Vincent’s year who called himself Bruce, after Bruce Lee, rode a motorcycle several hundred miles into the Hengduan Mountains, at the edge of the Tibetan Plateau, to research a road that had been constructed as part of China’s supply chain during the Second World War.
—Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
Any student of history knows the basic outline of the Second World War.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 27 Mar. 2024
Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Apr. 2024
In the decades following the Second World War, resource consumption skyrocketed—a development that’s become known as the Great Acceleration.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2024
Gathered below are a handful of images of some of the many ways people put bicycles to use during the Second World War.
—Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2024
Defense work during the Second World War adapted those insights to military ends: devising uncrackable cryptography, resisting signal jamming, reducing interference in anti-aircraft radar systems.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
With a post-stock market crash-depression and a dustbowl ensuing ,and a Second World War looming, the democratic ideals of Ancient Greece fueled the escapist arts of the era.
—Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2024
In the near term, the CBO expects debt as a percentage of GDP to exceed the record peak of the Second World War by 2029.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2024
One boy in Vincent’s year who called himself Bruce, after Bruce Lee, rode a motorcycle several hundred miles into the Hengduan Mountains, at the edge of the Tibetan Plateau, to research a road that had been constructed as part of China’s supply chain during the Second World War.
—Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
Any student of history knows the basic outline of the Second World War.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 27 Mar. 2024
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