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Reverent VulgarityOn a June night in 1997, two full moons appeared over the German town of Münster. One was smaller but no less bright, a frosted glass orb lofted...
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The Revolution Within the American RevolutionThe American Revolution was momentous at many levels, a break with traditional forms of monarchy and social deference undertaken, at its most...
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Meaning ItA large part of the work of writing is inarticulable. Writers who can explain what they’re doing while they are doing it, the ideological...
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The Many and the FewOne of the privileges of being civilized is that it gives you the right to do very uncivilized things to the barbarians. In his public address to...
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Gaza: The Cost of EscalationOn Saturday, October 7, I was awakened in the middle of the night by a news organization seeking comment on Hamas’s invasion of Israel. After...
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Drawing from LifeThe cover for our 60th Anniversary Issue was painted and hand-lettered by the artist, illustrator, and educator James McMullan. In addition to the...
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An Open Letter from Participants in the Palestine Festival of LiteratureWe are writers and artists who have been to Palestine to participate in the Palestine Festival of Literature. We now call for the international...
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A Philosophy of Our Fellow Creatures“Activist” might not be the first word that comes to mind to describe Martha Nussbaum, whose work as a philosopher has made her a public figure...
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Nowhere to Go in GazaThis morning the Israeli military ordered more than a million people in northern Gaza to evacuate within twenty-four hours. That’s half the...
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Louise Glück (1943–2023)The news that Louise Glück had died reached me an hour or so after I learned, from others in her large circle of friends, that she’d been...
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Inhumane TimesThe devastation in Israel’s south is almost beyond description. Even the gruesome reports—children killed in their beds, babies taken from their...
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The New York Review Turns SixtyIn 1963 Barbara Epstein and Robert Silvers launched The New York Review of Books, a magazine created from the conviction that a book review could...
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An Act of Admiration: Editing The New York ReviewA dozen years ago, Emily Greenhouse worked as an assistant to Robert Silvers, cofounder and longtime coeditor, with Barbara Epstein, of...
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Dismantling IowaI once loved Iowa. I read about its early days as a part of the great mission field where, beginning in the 1830s, settlers from the Northeast...
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‘Hallucinatory Spitballs’Early on a wet spring morning in 1952, Arthur Miller maneuvered his green Studebaker into Elia Kazan’s Connecticut driveway. The ignition off, he...
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The Grievance Artist1. I need one more indictment to ensure my election!—Donald Trump, August 3, 2023 Behold, in our swirling virtual age, with what sickening speed...
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Linnaeus TownDoes it havechlorophyll or notif it has.Chlorophyll does ithave anythingbut twisted metalvisible abovethe waterline ornot if.Anything buttwisted...
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Mozart the ModernistBiographies of composers are a relatively recent genre; those of Mozart were among the first examples. Though his life was not as sensational as...
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Picasso’s TransformationsThe cavalcade of exhibitions marking the fiftieth anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death in 1973 isn’t going to return him to the exalted position...
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The Bull’s-Eye on Your ThoughtsThis past June The Wall Street Journal ran a piece with the headline “Magic Mushrooms. LSD. Ketamine. The Drugs That Power Silicon Valley.” Though...
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YouthBourbon and scrambled eggs for breakfastUpstairs in their dowdy suite at the old Boston RitzAs guests of Brahmin old-fart trusteesOf the Harvard...
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‘Hag of Misery’On a gloomy New England afternoon last winter, I climbed the stairs of the Adams Free Library, a grand Beaux Arts building in the Berkshires, to...
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OnionsI always think of Pauline goingdown the stairs I always holdon thinking how going down she must have tripped shewas always going fast after all we...
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A Wider DevotionA savage, drunk, bullying husband (a pillar of his society) who has abused his wife and pushed her out of doors in her nightgown and bare feet on...
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The Anabasis of GodspeedThe sun smote him by night. He was writing a letter to his father in ENGLAND: “Dear . . .” the stars mirrored what he wrote but kept their...
