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Song of the Diet Colafor Sophie Fluid of the rags of the magical dead;last vice of the gentle sober; a good cryin September rain; holy ghost condensingalong an...
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The Fate of Free WillNobody was holding a gun to your head when you started reading this. You made a choice. Surely it felt that way, at least. A sense of agency—of...
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Eldest StatesmenFor a long time, two of the great gerontocracies were the Roman Catholic Church and the Chinese Communist Party. It is quite a thought that if Joe...
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Chile’s Count DraculaWhen, in 2006, General Augusto Pinochet died of natural causes in a suburb of Santiago, at the age of ninety-one, many were dismayed to learn that...
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Ultra HardcoreTo be a man is to dominate others. This is what I absorbed as a boy: masculinity means mastery, power, control. To be socialized into manhood is...
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Tools to End the Poverty PandemicIn normal times, the United States stands out among advanced democracies for its high levels of poverty and its low levels of aid. In 2019, right...
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Bodies That FlowFour canvases, each at least bedsheet size, hang in a compact box of a gallery. The low, absorptive blue of its walls echoes the colors just...
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The Advent CalendarThe last art newsletter of the year, covering the art from our Holiday Issue, comes to you after a cold morning walk in upstate New York: hard sun...
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‘The Eye of the Beholder’On November 10, 2023, Columbia University suspended two student groups that support Palestinian rights: Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)...
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People of SubstanceWhen we first meet Bella Baxter (Emma Stone), the heroine of Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things, she walks stiffly, like a wind-up toy winding down,...
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The Long War on GazaGaza is being devastated as we watch. A stated goal of Israel’s assault, which has so far killed more than 19,400 people, is to “destroy Hamas” in...
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The Old Man at ChristmasJean Shepherd is today best-known for A Christmas Story, the 1983 movie based on his 1966 book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash. He worked...
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Solo SonataEven in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination… [which] may well come less from theories and concepts than from the...
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‘No No Not to Read’Before Stephen Sondheim learned to read, he could identify records from his household collection by the particular shapes of the words on their...
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A Winter PersonOur Holiday Issue cover was drawn and hand-lettered by Sophia Martineck, a Berlin-based illustrator and designer. I’ve been working with Martineck...
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Aloe, Basil, Cash CropThe scribes of the Middle Ages wrote predominantly in iron gall ink, the product of an elegant four-ingredient recipe. Certain wasps implant their...
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Letter from Mount LebanonEhden is an ancient village on the northern heights of Mount Lebanon. Perched above the Qadisha (Sacred) Valley, it has long been a redoubt of the...
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A Tight Spot“It is a great relief to see a small work of art these days.” Elizabeth Bishop’s gallery note for a 1967 exhibition of Wesley Wehr’s miniature...
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‘A Powerful Day to You, Sir!’In our Holiday Issue, Mark O’Connell reviews Werner Herzog’s autobiography, a deadpan self-portrait by a true eccentric who seems to wake up each...
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An Exchange on Holocaust MemoryAn Open Letter on Hamas, Antisemitism, and Holocaust Memory The undersigned are scholars of Nazi Germany, of the Holocaust, of Israel, and of...
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We Got NextOn October 15 I arrived at the Barclays Center fifteen minutes before the start of game three of the 2023 WNBA finals. I assumed that would be...
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Managing MonstrosityTheodor Adorno was right to say that “the need to protect sexuality has something crazy about it.” A recent case in point is Dennis Baxley,...
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Dominant OrthodoxiesOn November 9 the NYR Online published an essay by the historian Seth Anziska about Zionism and its critics, the 1982 Lebanon War,...
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How America Ends and Begins AgainI chose this title because I have been driven these days to speaking in more direct terms than I am accustomed to. And I think you may understand...
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A New Language of Modern ArtThe brainchild of Laurence des Cars, the Louvre’s president-director, “Manet/Degas” is one of the most anticipated and ambitious exhibitions of...
