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Waiting for a New PolandI did not want to be alone on election night in Warsaw last month, when 460 seats in the Sejm, or lower house of parliament, and a hundred seats...
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Combatants for PeaceHamas’s attack on Israel and Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza have already caused colossal destruction and anguish. Some 1,200 Israelis were...
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Cries and WhispersI remember the first time I saw Meredith Monk perform; anyone who’s seen her in concert does. It was at the National Sawdust in Williamsburg,...
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‘Everything Will Be Alright’For Kerry James Marshall, art has always been “a set of problems that needed to be solved, the first of which was…the problem of Black...
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An Open Letter on the Misuse of Holocaust MemoryWe the undersigned are scholars of the Holocaust and antisemitism from different institutions. We write to express our dismay and disappointment...
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Child’s PlayPriscilla Beaulieu was fourteen years old when she met Elvis Presley, seventeen when she left her parents’ house for Graceland, twenty-one when...
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Basic Principles of HumanityFuel is “needed to power hospital generators, ambulances, and water pumps,” wrote Sari Bashi for the NYR Online on October 30. “Israel…cannot...
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Invasion, Day by DayIn a recurring dream, I discover that my apartment has a room I’ve never noticed before. It’s fully decorated, mysteriously forgotten. Depending...
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Strangers in the CityIn “Casa Tomada” (“House Taken Over”), a 1946 short story by the Argentine writer Julio Cortázar, a woman named Irene and her brother live...
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A Fallen Artist in Mao’s ChinaThis book will be denounced in Beijing. Ha Jin’s The Woman Back from Moscow is a novel based on the life of Sun Weishi, an adopted daughter of...
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The NaturalistFriedrich Hayek, the Austria-born economist, has always aroused strong feelings in both his admirers and his detractors. The Road to Serfdom...
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Don’t Make MeWhen I told you the crab on the beach was dead you asked me what’sdead I said This is his shellbut you must have heard soul a yearlong...
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Found in TranslationIn a late-fifteenth-century Russian collection called the Academy Chronograph (a kind of chronicle1), there is a story about the persecution of...
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Fatal EmbracementsWhy bother writing a historical novel, with its added burden of research and its added risk of anachronism, when every novelist has her own life...
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In Congo’s Cobalt MinesMining sustains the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is one of the world’s poorest nations. In 2019 taxes on mining companies accounted for...
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The Collaborator in ChiefTreason is a matter of timing, Talleyrand said, and he should have known. Aristocrat by birth, priest by original profession if no very sincere...
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Mildred Rutherford’s WarIn July the Florida Board of Education issued new standards for teaching public school students about slavery. Among other things, these declared...
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Prelude to EmpireNear the start of Abdulrazak Gurnah’s most recent novel, Afterlives, two men in a coastal town in German East Africa in the early 1900s muse on...
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Gut InstinctsRight before their colonoscopies, with the stress of a bowel prep still rumbling in their bellies and a mental image of the procedure beginning to...
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Jordan’s Balancing ActWe are at day forty-one of the Israeli retaliation against the Gaza Strip, following Hamas’s surprise attack on October 7. In response to the...
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QueryWe are collecting for publication letters from Virginia Woolf that are not in the six-volume edition edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann...
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Politics in the ClassroomTo the Editors: I read with interest Erin Maglaque’s complimentary review of my recent book, Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy: The...
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Patents and Code NamesTo the Editors: In his review of journalist Alexander Zaitchik’s Owning the Sun: A People’s History of Monopoly Medicine from Aspirin to Covid-19...
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Three Men and a Shark“Did you catch this?” the program insert for the John Golden Theatre’s production of The Shark Is Broken asks audience members. “Be on the lookout...
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Biden’s Selective OutrageJoe Biden’s response to the Hamas attacks of October 7 was to fuse the wars in Israel and Ukraine into a single struggle. Immediately after he...
