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The Point GuardIn the Review’s October 5, 2023, issue, Jennifer Wilson writes about the dark humorist Ludmilla Petrushevskaya’s latest novel, Kidnapped, despite...
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Finding My RootsMy romance with history began in the fifth grade, in the 1960–1961 school year, in a class taught by the only male teacher in my West Virginia...
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Punning for GermanyIt’s occurred to me from time to time that the experience of Hell would be like going around a world’s fair of national humor. In an especially...
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Twenty Years of Outsourced WarThe act of killing people was once taken so seriously, Phil Klay writes in Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War, that...
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The TransgressorIn 1959 the guitarist Chuck Berry plucked a young girl off the streets of Ciudad Juárez, the Mexican town across the border from El Paso, Texas....
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‘Give Me All the Power’El Jacalito wasn’t a bar, exactly, or a concert venue, or a club. Whatever its legal status (it was shut down by the authorities again and again),...
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Field ManeuversMilitary history written for a general audience is a predictable genre. When you purchase a fat biography of a hero of the Napoleonic Wars, you...
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New AngleAt your parents’ your daughtercut angels out of paper plates. Angels have paper wings so they can flyup to God, but no one believes in thatgod...
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‘A Haughty Independence’In one painting, a wicker chair stands at an angle by a window, below a sloping attic roof. Lace curtains hang to the ground, the light filtering...
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Conspicuous DestructionIn February 1897 a New York City lawyer named Bradley Martin and his wife, Cornelia, decided to host a costume ball at the Waldorf Hotel. New York...
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‘We Return Fighting’In the summer of 1944 First Sergeant Jefferson Wiggins was just outside the French town of St.-Lô, on his way to help liberate the Netherlands,...
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WarningWhen my father—a shy, stern man—Died, his features were unrelenting. I’d barely known my mother. I was nearing twenty. So I took up...
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The Way of All FleshWhat’s the point of a story if you already know how it ends? What about a life—why go to the trouble? “I was born posthumously,” claims Camilo,...
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Not Milk?Earlier this year Aubrey Plaza, of White Lotus and Parks and Recreation fame, appeared in a commercial seemingly tailor-made for her deadpan,...
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Historical Reckoning Gone HaywireHow do we remember the parts of our histories we’d rather forget? Repression and revision are always options. Few will go as far as Ron DeSantis,...
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Art as ActionIn the fall of 2022, a few months after the US Supreme Court overturned abortion rights, the art critic, curator, and activist Lucy Lippard spoke...
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Against the RubbleNature loves to hide— stopping on a trail...
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Is Prussian Militarism a Myth?On October 20, 1943, the German émigrés Herbert Marcuse, one of the most prominent theorists of the Frankfurt School, and Felix Gilbert, a noted...
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The Voyage OutOne of my favorite novels is by Compton Mackenzie, a Scottish writer known today, if he is known at all, for his whimsically comic Whisky Galore...
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Intolerable FreedomsThirty years ago this fall, director Krzysztof Kieślowski’s “Three Colors” trilogy debuted with the release of Blue, followed months later by...
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Gray AreaTo the Editors: In Anahid Nersessian’s review “Poems to Wake the Corpses” [NYR, September 21], I was surprised to read her insinuation that Joyce...
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Israel’s Origins and Revolutions: An ExchangeTo the Editors: Joshua Leifer [“Whose Constitution, Whose Democracy?,” NYR, May 11] writes that in the 1947–1948 period, “Zionist forces were...
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Heading Toward a Second NakbaOn a stormy winter day in February 2012, a Palestinian bus carrying schoolchildren on an outing collided with an Israeli trailer truck on the...
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Eight and SkateThe age of optimism that lasted in the US from the 1940s to the 1970s looked, basically, like a car. In his classic study Labor and Monopoly...
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Take It EasyIn the October 5 issue of the magazine, Daniel M. Lavery reviews Jacques Pépin’s most recent book, a collection of the eighty-seven-year-old...
