June 6, 2024

The New York Review of Books Magazine

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Contributors
Colin B. Bailey is the Director of the Morgan Library and Museum. His books include Patriotic Taste: Collecting Modern Art in Pre-Revolutionary Paris and Renoir: Impressionism and Full-Length Painting. Sarah Birke is the bureau chief for Mexico, Cent
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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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In The Heart Of Bahia
Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior, translated from the Portuguese by Johnny Lorenz. Verso, 276 pp., $19.95 (paper) For Americans trying to understand Brazilian history, it may help to think of Brazil’s North as akin to the American South and the B
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Is Israel Committing Genocide?
Like most of my colleagues in the international human rights movement, I use the term “genocide” sparingly. During my fifteen-year tenure at Human Rights Watch (HRW), which I cofounded in 1978, I applied the term to only one of the many great crimes
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The Best Time of His Life
Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham. Hogarth, 257 pp., $28.00 The year is 2007. Twenty-two-year-old David Hammond is adrift in New York when a certain senator from Illinois announces his run for the presidency. David, who appears biographically i
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Fanon the Universalist
The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon by Adam Shatz. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 451 pp., $32.00 Fanon’s Dialectic of Experience by Ato Sekyi-Otu. Harvard University Press, 276 pp., $49.00 (paper) Decolonization, said Frantz Fano
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Neglecting Beckett
Dance First a film directed by James Marsh Just seconds into the opening scene of Dance First, James Marsh’s new Samuel Beckett biopic, a number of problems with the whole enterprise of making a biopic of Samuel Beckett become apparent. The scene, sh
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Let There Be Light
Look Again: European Paintings, 1300–1800 a new installation of the permanent collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s European Paintings galleries, which reopened last November after a thoughtful,
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The Workings Of The Spirit
Christendom: The Triumph of a Religion, AD 300–1300 by Peter Heather. Knopf, 704 pp., $40.00 Peter Heather’s Christendom is a colossal book written by a colossus in the field. Aptly subtitled “The Triumph of a Religion,” it covers a millennium, from
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Mexico’s Politics of Bitterness
Early last September, at a restaurant a block from Mexico City’s National Palace, the leaders of the Movement for National Regeneration, known as Morena, gathered for a changing of the guard. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Morena’s founder an
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Daily Verses: 16
Today I feel on my tongue the bitternessof being. I feel the anguish enterthrough my feet. The day grows thinas a thread. Already the light is sticky porridge.All the pigs scream. The pigs? The pigsof din and racket, the machines stalkingthe streets,
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No Comfort
In his best-selling biography of Elon Musk, Walter Isaacson tries to explain how a man who attempts such “epic feats” can also be “an asshole.” He finds himself seeking help from William Shakespeare: “As Shakespeare teaches us, all heroes have flaws,
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Visible and Invisible Worlds
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong. Random House, 449 pp., $30.00; $20.00 (paper) Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses by Jackie Higgins. Atria, 308 pp., $18.99 (paper) When An
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Meloni’s Cultural Revolution
For months now an enormous excavating machine has been drilling deep into central Rome beneath Piazza Venezia, at the foot of the looming Victor Emmanuel II National Monument—a white marble pile of steps and columns that is probably the closest we wi

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