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Not Even a NutTo the Editors: In his review of Jared Farmer’s Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees [NYR, March 23], Verlyn Klinkenborg states that the...
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The Few Who Made ItTo the Editors: In “The Millions We Failed to Save” [NYR, June 22], Ruth Franklin’s otherwise excellent review of the documentary The US and the...
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Judge Kaufman, the Times & the ACLUTo the Editors: In her review of Martin J. Siegel’s Judgment and Mercy [NYR, June 22], an excellent biography of Judge Irving Kaufman, Linda...
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Name DroppingTo the Editors: With regard to Jessica Riskin’s enlightening piece, “A Poisonous Legacy” [NYR, June 22], and in particular the egregious David...
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The Life of the PartyWhile our three most recent presidents have little in common as politicians, they do share one critical political skill—the ability to repurpose a...
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Humorless BarbieBarbie has a lot in common with Valerie Cherish: two ramrod broads who never say die. That motto is a modus essendi, the stuff of which they are...
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The Everyman LibraryMy father once told me that his father, Giovanni Lepore, used to bring sandwiches to Sacco and Vanzetti when they were in prison in Charlestown in...
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Standing Up to ScrutinyRobyn Schiff’s Information Desk: An Epic is “less a poem about art, or work, than a poem about braided time,” writes Ange Mlinko in our Summer...
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The Long Struggle of India’s Sanitation WorkersOne man disappears underground as another emerges on the surface. A third squats on the road between them, turning between the two sewer holes,...
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Wind in the NaveA cluster of pipe organ tones rises in the cavernous space of a church. A soprano saxophone holds a long pure note, its overtones joining the...
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Paradise on 13th StreetWhen Spain Restaurant and Bar closed in 2020, prompted by the health risks the pandemic posed to its owners, the Village lost one of its last...
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The Decadent Life of the MindSinead O’Connor, who passed away on July 26, was only twenty-three when she released her second, seminal album, I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got,...
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A Riot of Color“WANTED: Red-faced, port-wine complexioned and gone-to-seed colonel as model.” This strange classified was drafted in the early 1930s by a...
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Morrison HallThe death of Nobel laureate Toni Morrison in the summer of 2019 loosed a flood of words upon the world. Elegies from artists and readers streamed...
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Webs of StyleIn the early autumn of 1950 Vladimir Nabokov received a letter from his editor’s husband, who was writing from their home in Brooklin,...
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A Frame-Up in GeorgiaIf the ninety-eight-page indictment by Fani T. Willis, district attorney for Fulton County, Georgia, of Donald Trump, Rudolph Giuliani, and...
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Somnambulant SummerWe closed the 2023 Summer Issue during the second half of July, amid showers, humidity, Beanie Babies, and Barbie. I’ve been drifting off to...
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The War of the Worlds in FranceFor many months, the neoliberal government of Emmanuel Macron has confronted a population that rejects its politics en masse. Macron’s proposal to...
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History’s PresenceIn the August 17 issue of the Review, the political theorist Adom Getachew writes about Howard French’s Born in Blackness, a radical reexamination...
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Dear JudyI am not the sort of woman who cries alone in a theater while watching a children’s movie. Watching the first and long-awaited film adaptation of...
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Unforgettable, UnrememberableCome Here (Jai Jumlong), the most recent feature from the Thai director Anocha Suwichakornpong, opens with a trick of the eye. Glowing in the...
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The Antispontaneity ArtistEvelyn Hofer was one of those artists who crossed what we might call the line of commission. The German-born photographer never broke from fine...
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IncomparableNothing Compares, the documentary about Sinéad O’Connor directed by Kathryn Ferguson and released last year, opens with her 1992 appearance at a...
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Invasion of the Democracy SnatchersIn his indictment of Donald Trump for conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, the special counsel Jack Smith makes a...
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Persistence of MissionAt the end of August 2020, Tom Cruise was on a mission to prove it was safe to go back to the movies. Donning a black mask over his nose and...
