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The Thrill of Late AntiquityA man looks back on half a life, beginning with his childhood, his schooling, and his higher education. As a student he is absorbed by theological...
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Alone in ParadiseIn opera, the bleakest imaginable tragedies and disasters—murder, suicide, war, the apocalypse—are practically everyday occurrences. And yet, of...
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What’s Your Type?In the opening scene of Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You, Rooney’s main character, Alice, is having a drink at a hotel bar with a man...
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Circuit BreakersJudges reveal themselves in footnotes. They use citations as signals and shout-outs, displaying their predilections and alliances. When Anthony...
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Ready to RumbleIs there anything as terrifyingly majestic as an erupting volcano? The ground shakes, fountains of incandescent lava spurt skyward, and roiling...
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Her Infinite VarietyIn his Decretum, a tenth-century manual on canon law, Bishop Burchard of Worms directed priests to ask female parishioners if they had inserted...
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‘Live All You Can’The effect of this little volume, which looks hardly more than a pamphlet, is wholly out of proportion to its modest dimensions. Robert Richardson...
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Cartoon RulesAs a boy growing up in the postwar American ur-suburb of Levittown, Long Island, the cartoonist Bill Griffith learned to read through Ernie...
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A New Force Set LooseSome events refuse to wither and die in our collective memories. The French Revolution is one of them. It prompted admiration and loathing—many...
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Free Speech on Campus: An ExchangeTo the Editors: It’s unfortunate that David Cole thought his point about the dangers cancel culture poses to free speech in America would be...
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Abortion Rights as Equal RightsTwo weeks ago, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned its own 1985 precedent to rule that the state’s provisions for equal treatment of...
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‘Wordlessness in Labor’If you read criticism regularly, then you start to develop a list of writers whose bylines you look for with every new issue of the magazines that...
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A Historic AbdicationThe Supreme Court justices’ responses last Thursday to the oral arguments over Donald Trump’s disqualification under Section 3 of the Fourteenth...
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The Memory HoleAn empty bucket, a Zappos shoebox, potting soil, a collapsed dog crate, a dog bed, a broken lamp wrapped in duct tape, some synthetic firewood—the...
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Hold UpLast fall, Lauren Michele Jackson reviewed Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster Barbie for the NYR Online. With the publication this...
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Tired of Pink“Slut” and “whore” evince, like piped exhaust, the running engine of Mean Girls. Early in the original film, our protagonist and narrator and new...
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Darfur: The New MassacresIn 2009 Arbab, a tall, slim, thirty-five-year-old man, was driving a pickup truck in North Darfur province, part of a rebel convoy that...
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CrashIn A. S. Hamrah’s review of Michael Mann’s Ferrari, published this morning on the NYR Online, he describes the Italian...
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Objects in Space at a Moment in TimeMichael Mann’s attachment to Ferraris is well known. In his 1980s television series Miami Vice, Don Johnson played Sonny Crockett, an undercover...
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Clothes as Fresh as SaladOne morning in 1952 Gaby Aghion, an haute-bourgeois Egyptian Jewish émigré to Paris, woke up with a feeling of emptiness. “It’s not enough to eat...
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Scrupulous ExtravaganceA grim silhouette looms on the prow of a ship: “Door-without-hinges…a meager frame with a set square, an inverted gable, a black triangle,...
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The Forest EatersIn August 2017 Eliane Brum, one of Brazil’s best-known journalists, moved from the great metropolis of São Paulo to Altamira, a small,...
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After Michael Longley, After Amergin GlúingelI am the bat that vanishes under the bridge in late September. I’m the little dancer in night air, drunk on insects. See me over there by the...
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A New Environmental CanonWhat is the radicalizing potential of motherhood? This was a central question in Adrienne Rich’s Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and...
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Open SecretsIn the summer of 2017, eleven FBI agents searched a small house in a run-down neighborhood in Augusta, Georgia, where a twenty-five-year-old NSA...
