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Writing the Nakba in HebrewThe epigraph to the second part of Anton Shammas’s novel Arabesques, first published in Hebrew in 1986, reads: Dresses of beautiful women, in blue...
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300 Years of ‘Too Big to Jail’Chiseled over the entrance to the US Supreme Court are the words “Equal Justice Under Law.” The principle is foundational for a democracy. In...
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The Beautiful StruggleUntil Reconstruction-era acts and amendments to the Constitution established national citizenship and Black male suffrage, in the eyes of the law...
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Joe Brainard’s Communal IntimacyI remember Joe Brainard. I never met him, and when I first felt his influence I had no idea who he was or where he came from, but the influence...
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Interior DesignBringing them home for the first timeI wondered, had I made the rightchoice, butalready I was a year ortwo down the line, wiping, from their...
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Hastening the EndIf humanity were to disappear from the Earth, what would be lost? On the human scale, the answer is everything; but on a planetary scale, it’s...
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The Safe HarborI’m in the cabin of a crane, a hundred feet off the ground. My seat is the ultimate La-Z-Boy, an exaggerated captain’s chair out of a sci-fi film....
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Judging in SecretIn the fall of 1954 the director of the Bureau of Prisons (BOP), James V. Bennett, asked Warren E. Burger, the head of the Justice Department’s...
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Consider the PublisherIf asked to identify a Johnson who held celebrated dinners in eighteenth-century London, most of us would suggest the convivial cohost of a Soho...
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Refill the Swamp!In January 1943, in a short essay published in The New Statesman and Nation, George Orwell surveyed his personal hoard of political pamphlets—a...
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Garum MasalaIn March 2022 a team of American archaeologists was excavating a temple of the Egyptian goddess Isis at the ancient site of Berenike, on the...
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‘Binding and Building’ AmericaIn 1976 John Leonard reviewed Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts for The New York Times: Those rumbles...
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Wilder, Riskier, More GenerousCookie Mueller’s favorite movie was Splendor in the Grass (1961), the cautionary tale of a teenage girl wilting under the weight of her family’s...
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Odysseus Saved from the SeaHomer, The Odyssey, 5.388–450 And then he drifted about—two nights, two days—drivenBy the surging waves, and his heart looked...
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A Call to DivestTo the Editors: In his fine review of two important books on the environmental harms of industrial agriculture [“Grim Reapers,” NYR, February 9],...
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Looking for Chaïm SoutineI am writing a biography of the painter Chaïm Soutine (1893–1943) and will be grateful to hear from anyone who has materials or knowledge relating...
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Shameful ProfitsTo the Editors: The Athens Review of Books has been preparing an article about the Nazis’ extermination of 44,000 Jews in Thessaloniki, the main...
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How Cruel Is Nature?: An ExchangeTo the Editors: In “A Peopled Wilderness,” Martha Nussbaum notes that humans can “support the lives of animals,” and one tool she mentions is...
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Written in the StarsTo the Editors: Astronomy has links to tree-ring studies, and Verlyn Klinkenborg’s eloquent review of Jared Farmer’s book Elderflora: A Modern...
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Love’s Body CountIn a sense, The Last of Us was always meant to be on HBO. The 2013 video game was designed to mimic television and film, with frequent...
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Bump and GrindThe problem with the likely indictment of Donald Trump is that his offense is a metafiction. It is a story about a story. None of the main plot...
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Macron’s Bad MathFor every retiree in France, there are 1.7 people in the workforce. In 1970 the ratio was one to four. By 2100, the number is projected to be one...
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A Toxic Bottom LineLast week on the NYR Online we published an essay by Scott W. Stern on the grassroots activists who organized against industrial pollution in West...
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The Rebellion and the DreamOn July 14, 1958, Abdul al-Karim Qassim led a coup in Iraq that toppled King Faisal II, an uncle of the Jordanian monarch, King Hussein. Fearful...
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The War of the RoseIn the early morning hours of January 20, Olivier Faure, the leader of France’s Socialist Party, announced that the party’s members had reelected...
