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Oppie’s ProblemIf you’re a member of any dynasty prominent in twentieth-century political history—with Roosevelts, Churchills, Windsors, and Kennedys at the...
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Opulence and Humility“The poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.” Thus Jesus defended the woman who anointed him with costly oil of spikenard. The...
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How DeSantis Packed the Florida Supreme CourtIn February the Florida Supreme Court published a set of unusual orders. Acting sua sponte—unprompted by a petition or a case—six of the Court’s...
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Ghost of a GuestThe Fiction Issue is one of my favorite issues of the year. I love fiction, but the issue is also an opportunity to invite a guest artist to...
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Sudan’s Repressed DemocracyIn June 2019, shortly after directing the massacre of a sit-in outside the army’s headquarters in the Sudanese capital, Mohammed Hamdan Daglo...
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Down to the WireIn 1815 the German Jew Isaac Meyer Goldschmidt opened the bank J. Goldschmidt Sohn in Hamburg, guaranteeing his family’s prosperity for more than...
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The Spanish ExceptionsAt the end of May Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced that Spaniards would go to the polls on July 23 to elect a new national government. It...
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A Ghibli GirlhoodHow Do You Live?, Hayao Miyazaki’s twelfth and, he professes, final feature film, premiered in Japan on Friday. (The American release date is not...
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The Jargonauts“Is there a text in this class?” For those who studied literature in the 1980s, this phrase was less a question than a slogan—a stand-in for the...
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Love’s WorkWhen my sister and I were kids we used to listen for the resonant horn of New Jersey Transit and run out to meet my dad coming up the block in the...
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ExilesWhen I was three I experienced exile for the first time. It was 1959: the year the first pogroms broke out against the Tutsi, which would...
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Florida’s Stop W.O.K.E. Act: An ExchangeIn response to:“The Long War on Black Studies,” June 17, 2023 To the Editors: Journalists and scholars regularly struggle to write accurately...
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The Human LandscapeIn Kerri Arsenault’s review of Morgan Talty’s short story collection Night of the Living Rez, which appeared in the Review’s June 20 issue, she...
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The UnforgivenEvery spring, when students come to my office and ask for advice about life after graduation, I tell them the same thing: don’t become a graduate...
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The Land RemainsI spent the end of May and the beginning of June in the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem, first as a guest of the Palestine Festival of...
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The Supreme Court Picks Its BattlesFor those who care about civil rights and civil liberties, the Supreme Court’s 2022–2023 term, which concluded on June 30, was a case of waiting...
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‘A Magical Medium’“The beauty of Bookworm,” observes Kevin Lozano for the NYR Online, “is that it elevates conversation—the dance between two...
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Poet of Shubert AlleyThe death of the musical comedy lyricist Sheldon Harnick on June 23, ten months shy of his centennial, brought forth a torrent of memories that...
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The Pregnancy PlotThe first thing you’ll hear about pregnancy in the contemporary novel is: there is nausea. Morning sickness makes the world “tilt slightly,” the...
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VacationlandA sign flanking the Maine Turnpike near the New Hampshire border greets drivers as they file in from points south: “Maine. Welcome Home. The Way...
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‘This Is Not Your Grave’Nick Drnaso draws comics with a minimalism just this side of crudeness. The colors are flat, the lines uniform and thin, the pages strict grids of...
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Life Made LightIn an uncanny anticipation of his subsequent reception history, Johannes Vermeer made one of his first appearances in the printed record in the...
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Unrepentant PenceIn a letter to The New York Times in 2005, Donald Trump wrote that “some people cast shadows, and other people choose to live in those shadows.”...
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The Hemon VariationsAs the title suggests—particularly once you realize that its grandiosity is unironic—The World and All That It Holds is by some distance...
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The Trouble with TruthFor a long time, as I was reading Emmanuel Carrère’s Yoga, I found myself not getting something. This was because I was distracted by the issue of...
