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An Off-Kilter EpicTheater performances always have a settling-in period, those tortured or merely awkward first minutes in which the audience hasn’t quite left...
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Gesture and LineWhen I come across beautiful illustrations for the first time, I get a little thrill. Part of it is opportunistic greed—could I get the artists to...
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Africa, the Center of HistoryW.E.B. Du Bois, the African American sociologist and historian and a cofounder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,...
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Deprivation ExercisesYears ago, when assigning my graduate students Ágota Kristóf’s The Notebook (1986)—a hair-raising novel told from the perspective of identical...
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Whack-a-RatIn June a Paris official made an announcement: the city would form a committee to look into the prospect of “cohabitating” with rats. For years...
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The Ambivalences of ‘Don Giovanni’“Viva la libertà!” sings Don Giovanni as his guests arrive for a festive evening, and because the opera was composed in 1787, during the Age of...
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Scorpion PartyWhen it comes to William Randolph Hearst, Citizen Kane is teasing but accurate in one great respect: he was sentimental about his childhood and...
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Wonder Cabinets of the MindPity the American cockroach. Though it is the largest of cockroach species (averaging about 1.6 inches long), is one of the quickest insects on...
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Ghost NetsPale syllables drift through the ear, reticulate and mercurial as moonlight’s ladder glitching across the water: skeletal rigging of a doomed...
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Nothing to See HereSome twenty years ago the radio program This American Life asked listeners which of two superpowers they would choose: flight or invisibility....
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I’m Good to GhostIt was all so Orfeo the other night. When the face you carry is not your own and the history in this is a history of haunted ground. The world is...
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The Nature TradeOn a spring day in 2017, along the edge of an ancient lake bed in what is now White Sands National Park in southern New Mexico, the paleontologist...
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The Uphill Battles of the Porter SistersLate in 1814 the Marquess of Abercorn issued an invitation. Abercorn was in his fifties, a known eccentric; in the manner that other people kept...
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Arriving Without BelongingIn 1987 Maya Angelou delivered a poetry performance to a packed theater in Lewisham, South London. The theme of the evening was love—“romantic...
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Constrain the Court—Without Crippling ItThe mounting drumbeat of verbal assaults on the US Supreme Court, including some I have launched myself, has reached a crescendo that finds...
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Acts of AccompanimentI was telling a chatbot I was feeling sad the other day and it asked to change the subject. I was hurt, but I also understood—there is only so...
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Lebanon’s ChernobylThe last time I was in Beirut was the fall of 2019, when Lebanon was in the throes of angry, hopeful protests. What started as street riots over a...
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Do the Right ThingTo the Editors: In your issue of April 20, 2023, The New York Review published a letter to the editors [Manolis Vasilakis, “Shameful Profits”] in...
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Another Trace of Anti-Jewish Libel in EuropeTo the Editors: To Magda Teter’s point, in “Reckoning with a Troubled Past” [NYR, March 23], that “no physical traces have survived” of...
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American CarnageRonald Reagan’s pronouncement, in his first inaugural address in 1981, that “government is not the solution to our problem, government is the...
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‘People Are Not a Crisis’Stockton Street in Brooklyn is bounded on one end by Sumner Houses, a public housing development home to 2,400 people, and doesn’t get very far...
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An Ensemble of One“Tradition in African-American music is wide as all outdoors,” the saxophonist and flutist Julius Hemphill said. Abdul Wadud, a frequent...
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The Secret Author of Our DreamsInfluence is mysterious—we’re so rarely aware of who or what moves the levers inside us. There are the influences you and I claim, the ones we are...
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Unheard MelodiesA lot is happening at once, in different directions or even dimensions, in Shane McCrae’s sonnet “June 12, 2020,” published in our June 23 issue:...
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Free Elizabeth Tsurkov!To the Editors: In late March Elizabeth Tsurkov, a thirty-six-year-old Israeli-Russian researcher and doctoral student at Princeton University,...
