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‘Diabolical Fame’Composed of rhapsody and opinionation, without shape or chronology, Roger Lewis’s biography of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton tries to get...
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Every Creeping ThingIn his late writings and correspondence, Charles Darwin was thinking about how mortal beings strive to make what they can of themselves.
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Nefer’s MissionSara Gallardo’s 1958 novel January, about a young woman’s quest for an abortion, became a touchstone in Argentine feminists’...
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The Trouble with RealityWilliam Egginton’s intellectual biography of Borges, Kant, and Heisenberg takes place at the intersection of physics and religion, and traces...
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Small IslandWhat has happened to Britain?
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Finally, No More FeesTo the Editors: Regarding the issue of the Bundesarchiv profiting from the use of archival material of the Nazi era raised in my letter in these...
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Covid and Governance: An ExchangeTo the Editors: In “Tools to End the Poverty Pandemic” [NYR, January 18], Matthew Desmond has made two false claims about my book, The Viral...
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‘I Am the Cabbage Writer’In the first two episodes of The Critic and Her Publics, we asked our guest critics to address, respectively, a feminist manifesto and a...
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Imperial EraThe day before Super Bowl LVIII, as I made my way to Las Vegas’s Mandalay Bay Convention Center for the “Super Bowl Experience,” a...
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‘Kish Mir in Tuchus!’A wannabe criminal who could when he chose draw like an angel, Stéphane Mandelbaum (1961–1986) was the child of two artists, bequeathed at birth...
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The Right to Speak Freely OnlineOn Monday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in NetChoice, LLC v. Paxton and Moody v. NetChoice, LLC, two cases that, David Cole writes...
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The Mississippi and the MekongIn 1886 an enormous panoramic painting called The Battle of Atlanta opened in Minneapolis. It was a cyclorama, a popular form of...
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Who Should Regulate Online Speech?Is the First Amendment obsolete in the age of TikTok? The constitutional law protecting free speech was developed when there were far fewer...
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‘Every Molecule of Hydrocarbon Will Come Out’Last December’s UN climate talks (COP 28), held in the UAE, had an unlikely president: Sultan Al Jaber, who for eight years has headed the...
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The Snowy DayAs a kid in Canada, I’d read and reread The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. I think it may have been responsible for why I live in New York...
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In My Mother’s ArchiveUntil I was thirty-three, I thought I knew everything important about the life my mother, Pearl Kazin Bell, had lived before I was born. She often...
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Reading the SignsIn our February 22, 2024, issue, Emily Raboteau reviews Camille T. Dungy’s Soil and Elizabeth Rush’s The Quickening, two books...
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Just Enough BluesMany hardworking artists toil at the lowest rungs of their profession their entire careers, and many great successes would have stayed there had...
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Filming and Forgetting TaipeiIn 1977 the Taiwanese director Edward Yang (Yang Dechang) was nearing thirty and working as a computer designer in Seattle. As a young man he’d...
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Party After The TheThe basil plant scenting the window ledge. You could watch itsuccumb for months. To a raffle of aphids. To heat.You could take cuttings to garnish...
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At Ease Amid the RuinsAccording to the best estimates, 99.9 percent of all the species that ever existed on earth have gone extinct. A similar fate awaits the extant...
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‘She Talk Her Mind’Zadie Smith’s first play is a brash, triumphant celebration of one woman’s voice and freedom, but it exists because its author found herself...
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Ducks in the Drawing RoomIn 1978, at the age of seventy, Barbara Comyns jotted down a new idea for a novel: I’ve an idea for a book—“Waiting.” Elderly people retiring to a...
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after Mechthild of MagdeburgO gush of bushfire, O quintuple denim sea, sun pressing like a button on us all,O moon mirabilis, unmirrorable mirrorball, O, you, most bottomless...
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It’s Easy to Lose FaithA horse and cart went past.I see. I believe in them. They grow dark. The horse and cart went past.But the horse had a horse.The cart had a cart....
