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The Rain TreesThe rain trees are pink again.They litter with a shrug,unorthodox for October, whose vintage is Keatsian,clammy with muscat fug;the rain tree’s...
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An Unlikely LifeHistorical fiction, whether written or filmed, has more than a little in common with the art of translation. Like a translation, it can never be...
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Rebel Without a CauseIn November 1881 Friedrich Nietzsche wrote to his sister from Genoa: “The day before yesterday I heard ‘Carmen,’ an opera by a Frenchman named...
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‘A Fiendish Fascination’Antisemitism has appeared in many times and places—and, as David Anthony shows in his informative, unsettling Sensationalism and the Jew in...
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The Talented Mr. SantosWhen masquerading as someone else, one should never be sloppy. One must become a master of the alternative facts. Dress, for instance, as the...
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Russian ExceptionalismWhen Russian troops seized Crimea in 2014, German chancellor Angela Merkel, reporting on her conversation with Vladimir Putin, told President...
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In Search of the Rare and StrangeWhen fire broke out in the royal palace in Munich in 1729, it destroyed a painting of the Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin made by Albrecht...
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Reimagining al-AndalusJorge Luis Borges’s short story “Averroës’ Search” begins one afternoon in twelfth-century Andalusia, in the shady Cordovan home of Ibn Rushd,...
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The Dark Tangle of Alzheimer’sBeing cognitively sophisticated and also long-lived has its dark side. The distinctly human style of navigating existence, our facility for...
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Camus in WartimeTo the Editors: In her flavorful review of Albert Camus’s Travels in the Americas [“Camus on Tour,” NYR, November 23, 2023], Vivian Gornick...
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I Want a CriticA friend of mine described Andrea Long Chu’s approach to criticism as perfecting a “rigorous negativity.” We know how deeply fun it can be to hate...
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The Case for DisqualificationEven as Donald Trump roars and intimidates with ever more violent threats, even as his lawyers warn that kicking him off the ballot in November...
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The American Jewish Left in ExileIn 2010, about a year into Barack Obama’s first term as president and Benjamin Netanyahu’s second as prime minister, Peter Beinart observed that a...
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Gaza: Two Rights of ReturnIt has been almost four months since Israel began its strikes on Gaza, following the massacre of hundreds of civilians by Hamas-led gunmen in the...
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‘Sound Is In My Hands’The 1960s and 1970s were a rich time for the Western musical avant-garde. By midcentury, conventions of melody, harmony, and rhythm had already...
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Everyone, TogetherThis sixteenth edition of the art newsletter comes to you from snowy Berlin, where I spent three nights this month. I landed to a fresh snowfall...
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Sublime DetritusWhen I heard about the death of the Los Angeles–based artist Alexis Smith, who was done in after a nine-year struggle with Alzheimer’s disease on...
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The UniversalistChristopher Wheeldon’s most recent full-length ballet opens with a romantic and morbid image. When the curtain rises, thirteen women in white...
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Coming to Grips with the IneffableThe Review’s February 8, 2024, issue includes “War Zone,” a poem by Ann Lauterbach. “Days emptied out along the hairline/cracks,” it begins. Over...
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The Plunder and the PityThe American Society for Psychical Research still exists. A group of scholars and scientists including William James founded it in 1885 to promote...
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The VoidI was talking to a builderof bridges and askedhow he built the structurethat brings two warring elementstogether. This was his answer.What is a...
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Fragile, Resilient WeimarThe magnitude of the German catastrophe in the twelve years of Hitler’s rule (1933–1945) casts such a dark shadow that it is difficult to see the...
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The Bernstein EnigmaThe door of his dressing room opened and I was about to say something to Leonard Bernstein, though I had no idea what. I was fourteen years old, a...
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Time UnregainedMovie history is haunted by Proust adaptations that never came to be. The actor and producer Nicole Stéphane spent twenty-one years trying to find...
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A Craving for CrimeAs World War II was drawing to a close, Edmund Wilson attracted considerable attention with a pair of New Yorker articles in which he undertook to...
