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The Digital PlanetDigital technologies are likely to worsen environmental problems, but they can also assist in the protection and restoration of ecosystems —and...
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The Jeopardy Is the JuiceColson Whitehead’s latest novel, Crook Manifesto, depicts its characters’ perilous navigation of race, class, and crime in 1970s Harlem.
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Seeing the Power in BlindnessA writer narrating his increasing loss of vision asks fundamental questions about sight and cognition.
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Furious StasisVerdi’s sprawling opera La Forza del Destino draws its power from asymmetry, arbitrary juxtapositions, and extreme situations.
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The Unwilling CelebrityMaurice Samuels’s Alfred Dreyfus is a biography of the very private man at the center of one of the greatest public controversies of modern times.
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Poem & PrayerDespite the gravity of subjects in Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr!, which include addiction and an obsession with the metaphysical, what makes the novel...
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Kate’s Two Bodies“Is the monarchy a suitable institution for a grown-up nation?” asked Hilary Mantel in “Royal Bodies,” an incendiary 2013 essay for the London...
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A Gender EmergencyMoira Donegan joins us from Stanford University, where she is a writer in residence at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Although Moira...
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Musical ChairsMy oldest friends, Tal and Nate, lived in Clinton Hill for fifteen years. When they moved there in 2005, virtually everyone around them rented;...
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Saint JosefAn empty stretch of road hemmed in by high cement walls. The level tarmac shines with dew. A muezzin is heard over traffic. Signs point toward...
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Checkpoint DreamsJudging from the architectural plans that the Border Patrol presented to Congress in 2009, the I-19 Border Patrol Checkpoint was supposed to be...
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‘Tell It as It Is’In February Jérôme Tubiana and Joshua Craze wrote a report for the NYR Online about a series of massacres in Darfur, Sudan,...
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Wallow Around and Live!On October 13, 1966, the artist Marta Minujín invited sixty Argentine celebrities to a large room, ushered them to seats that were each equipped...
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Unfamiliar ColorsA dispatch from the Art Editor
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An Orchard for a DomeThe painter Charles Burchfield kept a journal for most of his life, from 1909, when he was sixteen, to 1966, a year before his death. He filled...
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Consider the DivaIn our April 4 issue, Daphne Merkin immerses herself in My Name Is Barbra, Barbra Streisand’s “970-page, indexless brick of a memoir.”...
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Argentina: Into the AbyssIn 1983, when Argentina held its first presidential election after seven years of military dictatorship, Raúl Alfonsín won with an optimistic...
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A ‘Wary Faith’ in the CourtsA groundbreaking new book demonstrates that even during the days of slavery, African Americans knew a lot more about legal principles than has...
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An Anatolian ChekhovNuri Bilge Ceylan’s latest film, About Dry Grasses, combines the painterly images, frustrated characters, and existential spirit of his earlier...
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Intention to ReturnIn a past life I was not defined by his death.…...
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Wings of DesireA gullible new book raises the question of how we should interpret the history of the supernatural in early modernity.
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Domme Song 8You said I had to sleep in the cage but the smoke alarm went off and wouldn’t stop so I was like fuck this and slept in the other room, whose love...
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The Crash Next TimeCan histories of economic crisis provide us with useful lessons?
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A Hectic LifeThe bicentenary of Lord Byron’s death is an opportunity to ask what a witty dandy with the flamboyant attitudes of a raucously chauvinistic age...
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Becoming One with GeniusMost translators are the worthiest of people: gifted, erudite, hardworking, and modest in their material needs. People who crave money and fame...
