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A Mind in SpaceIn the nave of the Roman parish church of San Lorenzo in Lucina, a plaque was erected in 2010. It commemorates the burial there four hundred years...
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Dreams of Painting WallsTwo recent publications offer a dramatically new approach to the history of Impressionism: Marine Kisiel’s La Peinture impressionniste et la...
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Fascism Plucking the StringsIn the author’s note to his final play, Good, C.P. Taylor describes it as the story of “how a ‘good’ man gets caught up in the nightmare of the...
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‘Looking Out’In “Looking Out,” an early episode of the Pulitzer Prize–nominated podcast Ear Hustle, hosts Earlonne Woods and Nigel Poor interview Ronell...
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Personal HistoriesVisiting the photographer Sim Chi Yin’s show in Berlin was, for me, an exercise in keeping focus. My instinct was to look away. Too many of the...
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An Abortion Drug Tests the Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court may have thought it excused itself from the business of reviewing abortion laws last summer when it overturned Roe v. Wade and...
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Mysteries of Use and ReuseThe single exposed corner of my house in Rome is shielded by the battered stub of an ancient column. The marble cylinder, with its worn fluting,...
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Making a Constitutional Convention Safe for DemocracyFor over two decades, conservatives in the United States have been trying to trigger a provision of the Constitution that has never been used—a...
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The Architect and the Rock StarIt’s hard to imagine two women more antithetical than the visionary singer-songwriter-poet Patti Smith, winner of the National Book Award for her...
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Urban PicaresqueIn the Review’s April 20 issue, Negar Azimi reviews the irresistibly titled Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, a collection of...
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TemporaleThe child couldn’t tell the time. It was 1953, and she was looking up at the clock hanging on the wall in the vast, shadowy, central rotunda...
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Whose Constitution, Whose Democracy?On March 26 Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, announced that he was firing his defense minister, Yoav Gallant. The previous day,...
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Curbstones on the Road to ModernismWhen the Museum of Modern Art acquired a cast of Constantin Brancusi’s Bird in Space in 1934, the institution began its now-famous collection of...
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What Friends Are ForMen can be measured by their real or imaginary peeves. The longer one carries them around, they more they shrink one down to the size of the...
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Unsilent SpringSpring has been unusually noisy here in New England, more Stravinsky than twittering Vivaldi. Howling winds and honking geese in V formation usher...
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Flipping the Script in LahoreIn keeping with an old directorial tradition, Saim Sadiq—or, rather, the back of his head—makes a brief, uncredited appearance in Joyland, his...
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Making Sense of the MessRutu Modan, who designed and drew our blossoming Spring Books cover, is an Israeli graphic novelist and artist who lives in Tel Aviv with her...
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Poor Torvey!When the house opens the curtain is already up. The black and gray bricks of the back theater wall are exposed, as are pipes and other...
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The Court KillsWe are the disgrace of nations because we can’t stop killing our children—along, of course, with their teachers, relatives, and innocent...
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Inventories of LightMiyoko Ito created one of the most extraordinary bodies of work in the last century of American painting. It records the growth of a lucid private...
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Letter from an English Department on the BrinkI write to you with news about the state of the English major at one nonelite, midsize, regional comprehensive private university in New York...
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Macron UnreformedOn January 19 protests and strikes broke out in cities and towns across France in response to an unpopular proposal by President Emmanuel Macron...
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The British Broadcasting ConundrumToward the end of Penelope Fitzgerald’s 1980 novel Human Voices, a fictionalized account of her time working at the BBC during World War II, an...
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Special CorrespondentAs we know, the camera does lie, frequently and flagrantly—consider the fashion industry—but sometimes, with some people, the lens insinuates...
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A Formative Loss“The power of grief to derange the mind has in fact been exhaustively noted,” Joan Didion wrote in The Year of Magical Thinking, before proceeding...
