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When the Barbarians Take Over“It will have become clear to you now,” Joseph Roth wrote to Stefan Zweig in mid-February 1933, “that we are heading for a great catastrophe.” Two...
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‘Such Womanly Touches’I learned a new word the other day: clocky. It describes someone who doesn’t pass as their (chosen) gender. It originated in the trans community...
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China’s Foreclosed PossibilitiesTwenty days before Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Chinese president Xi Jinping signed a remarkable joint statement with...
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Theater for a New AudienceIn late 1623, when the first printed copies of Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies were presented to browsers in the...
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‘Europe Whole and Free’Oddly enough, the most visionary formulation of what we Europeans have tried to achieve on our own continent comes from an American president who...
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The Neotraditionalist1. Even the most assiduous self-promoter is well advised to be wary of writing a memoir, which tends to inadvertently divulge more than any author...
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Rhapsodies in BopThe Blaise Cendrars show at the Morgan may have been contained in a space about the size of a studio apartment, but it seemed much larger, because...
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Who Are These People?The Pole is a seventy-two-year-old pianist named Witold Walczykiewicz, a last name that his hosts in Barcelona cannot pronounce; so “call me...
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Defying TribalismFor almost all of its thirty-year duration, it seemed quite natural to think of the conflict in Northern Ireland, unfolding just a few dozen miles...
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Ghosts of AracatacaMy first glimpse of Colombia was in the summer of 1973. I’d been living in New York City and was on my way to Chile, to a promised scholarship at...
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Virtuosos of Self-DeceptionThe English-speaking world isn’t all that familiar with the work of Elsa Morante, but in her native Italy she became more famous than her very...
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‘A Great Glory to Wealth’Few of Rome’s marvels are more marvelous than the Villa Farnesina, the riverside villa built in the early sixteenth century for the Tuscan banker...
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Up All NightThe Danish novelist Harald Voetmann said in an interview last year that his most recent trilogy was inspired by a nightmare he had in Ascea,...
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Where the Orcas SwimFor centuries, whales have been seen in contradictory ways: as awe-inspiring and beautiful animals, but also as objects from which human beings...
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Déjà Vu in IsraelIsrael has survived many wars, but none of them, not even the 1948 war in which casualties amounted to one percent of the country’s Jewish...
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Gaza Without PretensesIn the hours after Hamas launched a surprise offensive against Israel, several commentators—Israeli and Palestinian—invoked another unexpected...
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Eyeless in GazaIn the Jewish legend, the great warrior Samson ends up, as John Milton famously puts it, “eyeless in Gaza.” He is blinded by the...
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Causes for DespairWe were waiting for the plumbers who had promised to come early on Saturday morning to our house in Ramallah when the news broke of Hamas’s...
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Armenia’s Mortal CalculusThis year marked the 850th anniversary of the death of the Armenian poet and apostle Nerses Shnorhali (Nerses the Graceful). Nerses, who had the...
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IntentionalityI remember writing The Mouse Who Lived at A&S when I was seven. I remember wanting to be in a band when I was nine. I remember my mom making a...
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From A Duel to A DuetThe first land in Europe to abolish capital punishment was Tuscany, where Grand Duke Peter Leopold ended the practice in 1786. When he left...
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Private Equity, Public PovertyIn “Conspicuous Destruction,” an essay published in the October 19 issue of the Review, Kim Phillips-Fein reviews two books on the past, present,...
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The Woman AlchemistIt starts with a tripod. Two perfectly egg-shaped vessels, bolted neatly together and mounted on legs, deposit three streams of paint—red, blue,...
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BroomstrokesIn 1956 the American artist Ed Clark grabbed a push broom and started sweeping his large canvases, stretched out on his studio floor, with paint....
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Ruffians, Gamblers, Thieves, OutcastsIn 2019 the Internet Archive gave me and other Istanbul enthusiasts a great gift: one of its users uploaded all eleven volumes of the İstanbul...
