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‘We Fight Today, We’ll Wrestle Tomorrow’When I stay in Khartoum I never miss the weekly wrestling bouts in suburbs populated by Nuba and other communities displaced to the capital from...
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The Coming FallWe closed our annual Fall Books issue while I was in Canada during the final leg of my daughter’s school vacation. We hadn’t been...
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Feel-Ins, Know-Ins, Be-InsThe most hypnotic piece of music released so far in 2023 was recorded forty-seven years ago in a barely adequate studio in Rockland County, New...
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The SpecialistOn July 17, after a lengthy trial and some six weeks of deliberation, Panama’s former president Ricardo Martinelli was found guilty of laundering...
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‘The Base of the Labor Pyramid’This past May Brazilian police officers and officials from the Ministry of Labor rescued a sixty-three-year-old woman from the private home where...
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A Marx for All SeasonsIn the Review’s September 21, 2023, issue, Ben Tarnoff reviews two recent books on the history of Silicon Valley, where “money begets money with...
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Storyboards and SolidaritySteiner Studios, at the old Brooklyn Navy Yard, was quiet when I visited on a hot morning at the end of May. The Writers Guild of America, which...
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Mother RussiaSome months ago I was having dinner with a writer from Moscow. I told him I was thinking of reviewing a new translation of Ludmilla...
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The Orphan Among RevolutionsIn 1848 revolutions began exploding across Europe like strings of firecrackers. From Paris to Bucharest and from Palermo to Copenhagen, people...
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Where Are the Women Composers?New York’s Metropolitan Opera announced its 2023–2024 season last February, and there is much to be excited about. There will be four Met...
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Unreasonable TermsOne of the main corporate participants in Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration’s multibillion-dollar crash program to create and produce...
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Ukraine’s New NormalOn August 8 I went to the Jellyfish Museum in Kyiv. During my previous visits to the city, it had been closed because of the war. Now it has...
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‘Obedient to Their Words’The year 2021 was meant to be a big one for commemorations in Greece: it marked the bicentennial of the start of the Greek War of Independence...
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Poemfor Robert Adamson, 1943–2022 First words, last words—mostly they’re inaudible, like the mimicry of bowerbirds or a radio through cotton wool with...
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Constable’s Quiet TumultWhat do John Constable’s seductive paintings—those cunningly constructed scenes of English rural life set among majestic trees and canopied by...
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Coq au PépinHe who can pay every day for a dinner fit for a hundred persons, is often satisfied after having eaten the thigh of a chicken. –Jean Anthelme...
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Toward a Land of Buses and BikesIf there’s a star in the climate-driven energy transition, it’s certainly the electric vehicle (EV). The heat pump—the efficient replacement for...
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Dream (as the Boat)but that is water, and I the unsure, un-believable sense, to see asthough my eyes were changedby the taking off ofhabit, that habit of waking...
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The Court’s Conservative Constitutional RevolutionIn just a little over a year, the Supreme Court has gutted the right to abortion, outlawed affirmative action in higher education, and thrown out...
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Searching for the True BrazilThe central conundrum in Brazil’s struggle to construct a cultural identity of its own has remained remarkably constant since the first Portuguese...
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Table TalkTo the Editors: In his review of my novel The Fraud [NYR, September 21], Michael Gorra finds that “as nearly as [he] can tell” the link between...
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Questioning Judicial AuthorityTo the Editors: Like many law professors, I read Laurence H. Tribe’s “Constrain the Court—Without Crippling It” [NYR, August 17] with great...
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Black Swan TimesFrom a ruined gas station on a hill in the village of Preobrazhenka, in Ukraine’s southeast, you can hear the sound of outgoing artillery and see...
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Le BoxeurAlain Pilon is a French-Canadian illustrator and artist based in Montreal. I’ve been working with him for twenty-five years, but our first meeting...
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Paradise LostHistory repeats itself, the first time as hope, the second time as dread. In a preface to the 2002 reissue of her classic work on the fear of...
