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Choosing Pragmatism Over TextualismA method of judicial interpretation that looks only to the original meaning of legal texts risks producing a Constitution and laws that no one...
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Storm Over ColumbiaOn December 24, 2023, the NYR Online published an essay by Nadia Abu El-Haj about the crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech at Columbia University...
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Haiti on the PrecipiceOn Thursday, Ariel Henry formally resigned as prime minister of Haiti. Few were grateful for his service. Over thirty-two months, the longest...
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Photographing a Lost New YorkIn the fall of 1966, when I was twenty-four, I returned to New York. I was finally completing the journey home I had begun when I left New Orleans...
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Migrant Workers in Their Own LandAt the start of last October over 200,000 Palestinians worked in Israel. Mostly they labored in construction and, to a lesser extent, in...
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A Curious Temperament“I don’t have any programmatic agenda for art, merely a hope to cut through received patterns of thought.”
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The Company She KeepsIn 1988 Vaslav Nijinsky visited the dancer and choreographer Molissa Fenley in her New York City studio. He had been dead for nearly forty...
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In Gaza’s HospitalsI was born in the spring of 1999 in the village of Khuza’a, east of the city of Khan Younis, in the Gaza Strip. My family comes from a village...
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‘Who Shall Describe Beauty?’The Met’s Harlem Renaissance exhibition reveals the eclecticism of Black artistic practices and styles.
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What’s in a Face?Two recent books of photographs by David Serry and Robert Stothard suggest there is no truth to the notion of a “Jewish race" with any unifying...
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Clamoring for LifeThough exceptional, fully developed female characters abound in Gabriel García Márquez's work, only in his last novel, Until August, is a woman...
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Catching the MomentJohn Singer Sargent saw into the souls of his models, whether they were society women, nude men, or lower-class Venetians. How did he do it?
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Nature’s RivalAntonio Canova’s clay models reveal the creative struggle behind the classical perfection of his marble sculptures.
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Burning UpReading John Vaillant's Fire Weather and Jeff Goodell's The Heat Will Kill You First, you may wonder if civilization is getting so hot that we're...
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Voicemail from the Impaledafter Ebecho Muslimova The branch grows into my vaginaand exits my mouth.Like sellers of fine carpets, leaves unfoldtheir new colors at my...
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The Passion of Martha GrahamThe job of the biographer who sets out to write about a great artist lies in part in resolving the tug-of-war between the life and the work. The...
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Flight Across the Heatherpace out the terrain bait the line with herring plant kale talk about the weather separate rumor from intelligence phrase against the pulse * bog...
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Wanting for NothingSeen from a certain perspective, Constance Debré’s recent trilogy of novels—Playboy, Love Me Tender, and Nom (Name)—looks ready-made to appeal to...
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How American Eyes Got ModernThe mid-century ideal of art as a departure into the unknown was not the exclusive property of heroic painters. Printmakers made cutting-edge art...
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Israel: The Way OutIf Israel is to survive, physically and spiritually, it needs to undergo, collectively, a sea change in its vision of reality and face some...
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The Must-Also-HavesIn Nicole Eisenman's paintings and sculptures, a system’s impending demise may reveal itself in feverish hilarity.
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Journalistic Self-Censorship?To the Editors: The conditions experienced by foreign journalists in Russia worsened well before Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine....
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Trump’s Delayed ReckoningOn April 25 the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments to address what it has identified as the central issue in the case Donald J. Trump v....
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An Open Letter in Support of Luciano CanforaItaly’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, has sued Luciano Canfora, an eighty-one-year-old historian, philologist, and professor emeritus at the...
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Tulips!A dispatch from the Art Editor
