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Naipaul & AfricaTo the Editors: Howard French criticizes V.S. Naipaul’s novel A Bend in the River [“Naipaul’s Unreal Africa,” NYR, December 22, 2022] for its...
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Every Man His Own HipsterThe neglected work has a number of advantages over the acknowledged masterpiece. First, it has the element of surprise: we are less likely to know...
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History Bright and DarkAmericans have often been politically divided, never more so than during the Civil War, in which we managed to kill more than 600,000 of each...
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Feeling Your Way in the DarkSusan Tallman has been writing about art and artists in The New York Review since 2019—on Vija Celmins, Gerhard Richter (“the poet of...
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Swimming Away from the BoatFor the past eight months I’ve been compulsively following what feels like a reality TV show in which every few weeks someone is forced off the...
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Extinction CoalitionOn New Year’s Eve, the British arm of Extinction Rebellion posted a statement to its website: “WE QUIT.” The headline was a provocation more than...
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A Housing Crisis in ParadiseThe language on the website of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation dedicated to San Quentin State Prison parrots the...
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Time of WaterWe closed the April 20 issue during my daughter’s spring break, which we spent on a trip to Toronto, my hometown. She hadn’t seen her Canadian...
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Embracing DefeatUntil last month Americans enjoyed guaranteed access to an array of crucial preventive medical services, including screenings for breast cancer,...
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Infiltrating LiteratureIn September 2022 Bret Easton Ellis, who in the 1980s had been, alongside Jay McInerney and Donna Tartt, one of the leading lights of an informal...
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‘A Book is a Quiet Weapon’At a recycling facility outside Kyiv, the face of Vladimir Lenin gazed from the cover of a discarded biography among Russian copies of Dostoevsky,...
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Resistance PotteryBeautiful pots have been fashioned for centuries by American makers, whether indigenous, enslaved, or of European origin. But their status in the...
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Les Enfants TerriblesIn a 1987 essay in these pages, V.S. Naipaul admitted that an “artificial, self-conscious” feeling seized him every time he began to write, until...
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Seeing Baya AnewIn November 1947 a fifteen-year-old prodigy from colonial Algeria named Baya, described variously as Kabyle, Berber, Muslim, and Arab, exhibited...
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The Chilliest MystiqueTechnological innovation is the hot-button topic of two major exhibitions that opened almost simultaneously earlier this year in art museums on...
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The Perpetual Provocateur“Whatever is to become of poor Piranesi,” mused Thomas De Quincey in his 1821 Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. He wasn’t worried about the...
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Of Crocodiles and Kings“On land a tiger, in the water a crocodile” (dangay bagh, jale kumir), a much livelier version of our “Between a rock and a hard place” or even...
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Art Is a DrugA handsome bald guy with dark features and a closely cropped beard appears in close-up against a black background. With genial authority and...
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Après-SkiThe air was thick and humid, delivered on a warm breeze that belonged to June, on the November morning I brought one of my daughters to a ski swap...
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Yearning to Breathe FreeOn Thursday, July 6, 1989, I sat in bright summer sunshine on the veranda of the old vicarage in Pankow, a suburb of East Berlin, talking to...
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What a Gazan Should Do During an Israeli Air StrikeTurn off the lights in every room / sit in the inner hallway of the house / away from the windows / stay away from the stove / stop thinking about...
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A Profusion of PoetsIn 1985 the forty-five-year-old exiled Chilean Antonio Skármeta, one of the most brilliant Latin American writers of his generation, published the...
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Escaping from Notes to Sounds“It was like the wind sometimes, moving fast…. It hovered,…oscillated back and forth with sounds that would strike the earth to its...
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Prayer PoemIt was Sunday and the Packers were losing. I started praying. I readied my offer to God.I was praying for the Packers to...
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The Denim JacketOne half hour in May2019 deepening as ifExpressive of a processLike cancellation butUndergone by stormsThe green dominant inWindows of the...
