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DeepL EdizioniIntroducing his new publishing house, Orville Press, at an event in Milan on February 23, Matteo Codignola, once one of the pillars of the...
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The High Cost of Being PoorThree years ago, the Covid-19 pandemic struck the United States, and the economy sputtered in the direction of collapse. Social distancing...
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Collide, Collude, ConfrontI first visited Iraq in October 2002, barely a year after the United States attacked Afghanistan in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. I went there...
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Lispector,In the Review’s April 6 issue, Alejandro Chacoff reviews a collection of crônicas by the novelist Clarice Lispector, mostly written for the Jornal...
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The Couple FormEarly in Maggie Millner’s Couplets, a book-length narrative poem that might also be called (or so its author suggests) True Life: Turning...
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A Body That’s DivineIf human eyes could look at God’s body, what would we see? In God: An Anatomy, Francesca Stavrakopoulou catalogs the anthropomorphic references to...
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Avoidance IssuesOf the South Asian authors of his generation, none has staked a bolder claim to being a “world writer” than the Pakistani novelist Mohsin Hamid....
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Zimbabwe’s Wounds of EmpireThe mental derangement of colonialism was Doris Lessing’s first subject. In her early stories, set in Southern Rhodesia, where she grew up nearly...
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Longing for ReconciliationCharisma, like pornography, is easier to recognize than define. Max Weber’s attempt borders on tautology: A certain quality of an individual...
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An Airplane or a Helicopteran argument arosewhat is that loud buzzing in the skyas if from an old abandonedgarden behind the houseon the market square—an airplane or a...
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Appeasement at the CineplexAlthough Beijing and Hollywood inhabit political and cultural universes that have little in common, they are similar in one important respect:...
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Putin’s FollyLuke Harding, a journalist for The Guardian who spent several years as a correspondent in Moscow before being expelled in 2011, was in Kyiv the...
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A Regional Reign of TerrorA little over twenty years ago, the New-York Historical Society mounted “Without Sanctuary,” a remarkable exhibition of photographs of lynchings...
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PurchaseJohn Bronzina, Ithink you could save me.You have green eyesand have completedyour training for CPRfor children and adults.John, I am in the...
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Drowned WorldsWe are living, as we know, through a global water crisis. Climate change has brought droughts to large areas and floods to others; water scarcity...
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The Garden Between Daysafter John Singer Sargent The lilies above the girls in white look like girls in white,dancing. The girls hang paper lanterns in the garden,...
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Here’s Looking at YewWhat counts as eccentric in the garden, and what counts as a folly? As a child I used to be taken on Sunday walks to the Needle’s Eye in...
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Auden’s DialecticThe two volumes of Poems by W.H. Auden (edited by Edward Mendelson, his tireless literary executor) contain all the poems that he published,...
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Descriptions of a StruggleKafka wrote bedtime stories in the sense that he wrote about the terrifying things that might happen in bed. No sooner has the father in “The...
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The Master of ToskaWhat makes Chekhov stories so wonderful? When did the humorous anecdotes he wrote for money become great art? And at what point did Chekhov...
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Erdogan in the RuinsThe earthquake that struck southern Turkey and northern Syria on February 6 killed around 40,000 people in Turkey alone, destroyed or severely...
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An Exceptional WitnessOne evening in 2015, the writer Michael Frank rushed in late to a lecture at the Casa Italiana, the home of New York University’s Department of...
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The Architect of Subtraction1. Several of modern design’s most familiar shibboleths were not first stated as they are now commonly quoted. For example, Louis Sullivan’s...
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The Unbearable Weight of LevityThe cronista hunts big game with a pocketknife. A brief description of the old neighborhood soccer team suggests the unrelenting passage of time;...
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The ExorcistBret Easton Ellis first saw the Paul Schrader film American Gigolo in February 1980, the month it opened, when he was fifteen years old. He has...
