June 20, 2024

The New York Review of Books Magazine

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Contributors
Zhenya Bruno is the pseudonym of a writer who lives in St. Petersburg. Francisco Cantú is the author of The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border. Martin Filler’s most recent book is Makers of Modern Architecture, Volume III: From Antoni G
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The Tower And The Sewer
When you go looking for what is lost, everything is a sign. Eudora Welty, “The Wide Net” On an overcast morning in the late 1980s I visited the church across the way from my apartment in Paris. I was curious. The parish, St.-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet, wa
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Editor Emily Greenhouse Deputy Editor Michael Shae Executive Editor Jana Prikryl Senior Editor Eve Bowen Contributing Editors Prudence Crowther, Gabriel Winslow-Yost Art Editor Leanne Shapton Managing Editor Lauren Kane Online Editors Max Nelson, Rat
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Up On The Roof
Machine à Amuser: The Life and Death of the Beistegui Penthouse Apartment by Wim van den Bergh. MIT Press, 369 pp., $65.00 Few images in the history of modern architecture have exerted quite the same uncanny fascination as Marius Gravot’s 1932 black-
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Livelier Than the Living
A Marvelous Solitude: The Art of Reading in Early Modern Europe by Lina Bolzoni, translated from the Italian by Sylvia Greenup. Harvard University Press, 246 pp., $39.95 Untold Futures: Time and Literary Culture in Renaissance England by J. K. Barret
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Black Atlantics
Floating in a Most Peculiar Way by Louis Chude-Sokei. Mariner, 240 pp., $15.99 (paper) The Last “Darky”: Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora by Louis Chude-Sokei. Duke University Press, 277 pp., $102.95; $27.95 (paper)
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Leaving the Fold
Cloistered: My Years as a Nun by Catherine Coldstream. St. Martin’s, 327 pp., $30.00 Like many contemporary memoirs, Cloistered opens in medias res, giving the reader a taste of the narrative intensity that belongs, chronologically, to the book’s cli
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‘I Still Would Have Had That Abortion’
Undue Burden: Life-and-Death Decisions in Post-Roe America by Shefali Luthra. Doubleday, 348 pp., $29.00 Two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, I am starting to see women come back. They are crossing state lines for a second time,
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Grand Poobah Of The Antigrandiose
Charles Portis: Collected Works edited by Jay Jennings. Library of America, 1,096 pp., $45.00 Haunted Man’s Report: Reading Charles Portis by Robert Cochran. University of Arkansas Press, 224 pp., $39.95; $25.95 (paper) The comedian George Carlin had
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People Walk Around
People walk aroundWith people in their head.What some lovely person did.What some lovely person said.Heartthrob in the head. I float to 86th Street with you in my heart.I’m a pigeon cooing to a crumb of bread,Except I’m kind of floating instead—And i
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No Place Like Home
Origin Africa: A Natural History by Jonathan Kingdon. Princeton University Press, 472 pp., $39.95 Jonathan Kingdon is one of Africa’s most celebrated artists and naturalists. His paintings and sculptures have been exhibited from Cambridge to the Smit
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A Legacy of Plunder
Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America by Michael John Witgen. Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture/University of North Carolina Press, 366 pp., $24.00 (paper) Growi
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A ‘Life of Contradictions’
A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B. R. Ambedkar by Ashok Gopal. New Delhi: Navayana, 863 pp., $50.00 B. R. Ambedkar: The Man Who Gave Hope to India’s Dispossessed by Shashi Tharoor. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 226 pp., £16.99 The Ev
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Russian Decency
I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country by Elena Kostyuchenko, translated from the Russian by Bela Shayevich and Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse. Penguin Press, 363 pp., $30.00 On February 25, 2022, the front page of Novaya Gazeta, Russia’s acclaimed ind
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I Can’t Stop
rubbing the filters back and forththrough a knob on the screen that’s codedto brush glaze and bury echoeson photographs my oiled finger pads never once touchedSo much past arrives on my screencoupled with soft pings in the pocketstrange temple bellAn
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The Constant Presence of Fear
Sito: An American Teenager and the City That Failed Him by Laurence Ralph. Grand Central, 297 pp., $30.00 We learn in the opening pages of Laurence Ralph’s new book that Luis Alberto Quiñonez, known as Sito, was shot to death nearly five years ago wh
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‘You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught’
Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical by Laurie Winer. Yale University Press, 356 pp., $32.50 (to be published in paperback in August) Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers by Mary Rodgers and Jesse Green. Farrar, Stra
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D-Day’s Forgotten Victims Speak Out
At lunchtime in the small Normandy town of Évrecy, men gather in the tabac-café-bar to wager on the next harness race through the PMU betting network. With coffee or beer in hand, they focus on the screen; a young barmaid mops the floor. Up the road
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Letters
To the Editors: My article “Is Israel Committing Genocide?” [NYR, June 6] cited numbers of the dead and wounded in Gaza, including the number of women and children killed, as reported by the United Nations. Shortly after the article went to press, re

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