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**Michael Gorra**

Lost in the Landscape

The Met’s Caspar David Friedrich exhibition offers an introduction to an artist whose work—luminous, disturbing, serene—reveals an all-encompassing physical realm.

April 10, 2025 issue

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**Christopher R. Browning**

Trump, Antisemitism & Academia

If the Trump administration were truly concerned about antisemitism, it would start in its own house.

April 10, 2025 issue

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**Jonathan Mingle**

Planet Ooze

We cannot grow the crops that feed eight billion people and counting without phosphorus. At the rate we waste this precious element, how long will supplies last?

April 10, 2025 issue

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**Wendy Doniger**

The Rise and Fall of Warhorses

You can tell the history of a large part of the world by who had what horses when.

April 10, 2025 issue

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**Cathleen Schine**

Ungovernable, Capricious Life

In Hanif Kureishi’s astonishing memoir of his life after the fall that left him tetraplegic, the sense of vulnerability is crushing, but it’s also part of what makes the writing so intimate.

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March 20, 2025

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**Howard W. French**

Toffler in China

The work of the eclectic American futurist exerted a profound and unanticipated influence on China’s digital transformation since the 1980s.

April 10, 2025 issue

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**Miri Rubin**

Christian Hair

The historical claim that Christianity replaced Judaism as a superior faith resulted in laws and language that persecuted Jews—and laid a foundation for white supremacy, too, a new book argues.

April 10, 2025 issue

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**Dan Rockmore**

The Quantum Chaos of Literature

Benjamín Labatut’s writing—dizzying, unnerving, and packed with ideas about science and mathematics—blurs the line between truth and imagination.

April 10, 2025 issue

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**Christian Caryl**

How Germany Remade Itself

A close look at the postwar history of Germany suggests that its progress toward democracy has not always been as stable or straightforward as modern-day observers might assume.

April 10, 2025 issue

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**Brenda Wineapple**

Peaceable Revolutions

In her history of American social movements, Linda Gordon argues that they are vital and transformative partnerships that, by challenging the status quo, are indispensable to the health of the nation.

April 10, 2025 issue

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**Adam Thirlwell**

Rotten in Denmark

Lars von Trier’s _The Kingdom_ is a soap opera about a hospital where the doctors aren’t good-looking or vibrating with noble sentiment but generally corrupt or insane.

April 10, 2025 issue

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Rigorous Innocence

A new volume of essays and _crónicas_ by the Argentine writer Hebe Uhart is often funny and sad in equal measure, as the stories follow her travels from Buenos Aires to Guadalajara.

April 10, 2025 issue

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**Sally Rooney**

Angles of Approach

Ronnie O’Sullivan is the greatest snooker player in history—what he can do, no one has ever been able to do. And no one can even explain how he does it.

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Combustion

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Frankie Newton: Lost and Found 

A trove of newly discovered newspaper articles written by the trumpeter shines fresh light on his enigmatic life. 

March 19, 2025

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**Mark O’Connell**

Single-Player Politics

Luigi Mangione’s alleged killing of a health care CEO was conceived—and received—as a move within a game of symbols.

March 16, 2025

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**Nadia Abu El-Haj**

‘Mahmoud Is Not Safe’

Mahmoud Khalil’s detention is the result not just of the Trump administration’s agenda but of more than a year of moral panic around pro-Palestine protest. 

March 15, 2025

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**Poorna Swami**

Of Light

Payal Kapadia’s films are defined by the slippage between women’s longing and the dogged grip of reality—not least of India’s unyielding social divisions.

March 14, 2025

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**Christopher R. Browning**

Giving In to Hitler

When confronted with an analysis of Hitler’s own words that made his goal of war perfectly clear, Neville Chamberlain retreated into complete denial: “If I accepted the author’s conclusions I should despair, but I don’t and won’t.”

September 26, 2019 issue

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**Tony Judt**

The Reason Why

“The passage of time, and the fond illusions fostered by the security of the cold war era and the fall of communism, have returned us to an earlier perspective in which ethics and national self-interest have parted company. We are now taught to think of foreign conflicts, in James Baker’s deathless phrase, as fights in which we have ‘no dog.’”

May 20, 1999 issue

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**John Kenneth Galbraith**

Hitler: Hard to Resist

An offensively imaginative revisionism has come to suggest that Hitler was a political and military genius who was only marginally aware of the butchery of the Jews and the Poles. But the Germans who took part in the Claus von Stauffenberg conspiracy were not in the slightest doubt as to what his brainless military megalomania was doing to Germany or what he personally was doing to the Eastern peoples and the Jews.

September 15, 1977 issue

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**David Cannadine**

Munich Man

“Chamberlain was variously described as having been ‘a good mayor of Birmingham in a lean year,’ with ‘a retail mind in a wholesale business,’ who looked ‘at affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.’ Nevertheless, he became prime minister in 1937, and in the following year went to see Hitler at Munich, dressed with inadvertent appropriateness like an undertaker.”

March 28, 1985 issue

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All Gorey

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**Jed Perl**

The Art of Elsewhere

“Gorey sent dispatches from a dream world where Edwardian grandees cross paths with temptresses in flapper dresses, children confront animals nobody has ever seen before, and eerily depopulated interiors and landscapes leave us feeling that calamity is just around the corner.”

May 10, 2018 issue

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**Eve Bowen**

Gorey Treasures

Edward Gorey’s drawings capture “a whole little personal world,” as Edmund Wilson put it: “equally amusing and sombre, nostalgic at the same time as claustrophobic, at the same time poetic and poisoned.”

August 4, 2012

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**John Russell**

In Goreyland

“Among image-makers, who but he would have made us look with lasting enjoyment at a skeleton that lies reading in a hammock, center front, while a few feet behind him a garden party goes on as if nothing unusual was happening?”

March 28, 2002 issue

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**Alison Lurie**

On Edward Gorey (1925–2000)

“In these macabre comedies, almost no one looks happy—with the striking exception of the cats, who always seem to be having a wonderful time.”

May 25, 2000 issue

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The Return of Trump

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**Ben Tarnoff, Zephyr Teachout, Bill McKibben, Michael Hofmann, Linda Greenhouse, and Garry Wills**

The Return of Trump—I

On losers, fear, the Supreme Court, the end of the FDR era, antisystemic times, and words without consequences. 

November 8, 2024

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**Rozina Ali, Christopher Benfey, Quinn Slobodian, Walter M. Shaub Jr., Bridget Read, and Jon Allsop**

The Return of Trump—II

On Gaza, trade, con men, sinking feelings, the federal workforce, and “Brexit plus plus plus.”

November 9, 2024

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**Christine Henneberg, John Washington, Suzanne Schneider, Aryeh Neier, E. Tammy Kim, and Andrew O’Hagan**

The Return of Trump—III

On abortion, labor, NatCon, the rise of authoritarianism, the darkroom of propaganda, and the threat of mass deportation. 

November 10, 2024

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**Paisley Currah, Trevor Jackson, Kim Phillips-Fein, Ian Frazier, Adam Gaffney, and Madeleine Schwartz**

The Return of Trump—IV

On burnout, hell, billionaires, health care, the specter of the limousine liberal, and the anti-trans agenda.

November 11, 2024

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**Astra Taylor, Michael Greenberg, Coco Fusco, Verlyn Klinkenborg, Thomas Powers, and Anne Enright**

The Return of Trump—V

On tantrums, dominion, the Southern Strategy, fearmongering ads, New York’s haves and have-nots, and Candidate Fain. 

November 13, 2024

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**Yuri Slezkine, Wesley Lowery, Carolina A. Miranda, Nitin K. Ahuja, and Susan Neiman**

The Return of Trump—VI

On rage, fluoride, the task of the journalist, the Garden of American Heroes, and the Buffs and the Blues. 

November 15, 2024

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The Return of Trump—VII

On veterans, fascism, Africa abandoned, and “less-than-kosher activities.”

November 17, 2024

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[Sadhbh Walshe: Why Irish America Is Not Evergreen](https://www.nybooks.com/online/2018/03/16/why-irish-america-is-not-evergreen/)

At this St. Patrick’s Day, one could be fooled into thinking that the Irish-American community is as robust as ever. But US immigration rules have largely closed the door to new entries, leading inexorably to a “graying” of Irish America.

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Ordem e Progresso

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**Vanessa Barbara**

Brazil at the Crossroads

Lula’s election comes as a relief to many Brazilians, but in this historically violent and unequal country, a void in the democratic field endures.

February 23, 2023 issue

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**Vincent Bevins**

Bigger than Bolsonaro

After four years in power, a movement created by elite campaigns has built a mass base.

October 28, 2022

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**Lilia M. Schwarcz**

Brazil’s Clown-Elect

“The unpredictable behavior of Brazilian voters can also lead to more baffling outcomes. In 1959, for example, Cacareco, a placid, middle-aged rhinoceros at the São Paulo zoo, was voted onto the city council, having won over 100,000 votes—and this is only the most famous case in Brazil’s long history of ‘protest votes.’”

October 14, 2010

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**Kenneth Maxwell**

Brazil: Lula’s Prospects

“To understand Lula it is essential to realize that he is at the core a union man, a tough labor negotiator, a formidable forger of consensus, and a leader with a charismatic ability thereafter to mobilize the crowds in the direction chosen.”

December 5, 2002 issue

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Black and White and Read All Over

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**Tim Parks**

The Most Influential Invention

A history of paper shares all the facts and technical processes, the quality of the rags, the size of the paper sheets, the color and texture of different surfaces and how they were achieved, but most importantly it gives us a sense of a collective human vocation for creating a world apart on the page.

August 13, 2015 issue

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**Lucy Sante**

Disappearing Ink

“I left the New Museum’s ‘The Last Newspaper’—a show that sets out to explore the relation between newspapers and art at the end of the print era—with my fingers black from printer’s ink, just as they used to be years ago when I read the _Times_ every morning on the subway.”

November 1, 2010

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**Edward Mendelson**

The Human Face of Type

“Serifs are not ornamental but functional: most of them are horizontal strokes that help to guide the eye rapidly and smoothly across the page. Sans-serif types, in contrast, present a thicket of vertical strokes that slow down the eye’s horizontal movement.”

August 4, 2011

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**J. Hoberman**

The Great Comics War

Peter Maresca’s outsized and outlandish anthology _Society is Nix: Gleeful Anarchy at the Dawn of the American Comic Strip, 1895–1915_, shows just how sensational this newspaper art form was in its early years.

December 31, 2013

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High Crimes and Misdemeanors

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**Joan Didion**

Clinton Agonistes

The Clinton impeachment was a situation in which a handful of people with something to gain (a book contract, a sinecure as a network “analyst,” or the justification of a failure to get either of the Clintons on Whitewater), managed to harness this phenomenon and ride it.

October 22, 1998 issue

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**Theodore H. Draper**

Reagan’s Junta

“The implications of government by secret presidential junta strike at the very roots of the American system of government. One way to think about them is to note how the Iran-contra affair has been defended or rationalized by those politically or ideologically closest to the President.”

January 29, 1987 issue

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**I.F. Stone**

A Special Supplement: Impeachment

There are two reasons for impeaching Richard Nixon. One is that this may be the only legal proceeding to determine the President’s complicity in the Watergate scandal. The other is that only so grave a step may deter a future President from such abuses.

June 28, 1973 issue

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**David S. Reynolds**

He Was No Moses

While he opposed slavery and southern secession early in his career, as president Andrew Johnson turned out to be an unsightly bigot.

December 16, 2021 issue

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On AI

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**Jessica Riskin**

A Sort of Buzzing Inside My Head

Whether ChatGPT passes the Turing Test is a less troubling question than what Alan Turing meant by “intelligence.”

June 25, 2023

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**Tim Parks**

DeepL Edizioni

As machine translation software grows more sophisticated, could it entirely replace human translators?

March 22, 2023

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**Sue Halpern**

The Human Costs of AI

Artificial intelligence does not come to us as a deus ex machina but, rather, through a number of dehumanizing extractive practices, of which most of us are unaware.

October 21, 2021 issue

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**Bernard Williams**

How Smart Are Computers?

“Artificial Intelligence has gone through a sober process of realizing that human beings are cleverer than it supposed. It has turned to a more cautious and diversified strategy of accumulating ‘know-how’ rather than mounting frontal assaults.”

November 15, 1973 issue

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Brief Encounters

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**Sally Rooney**, interviewed by **Daniel Drake**

Brass in Pocket

“I wonder if nonfiction somehow taps into my (otherwise largely suppressed) competitive instincts. I never feel competitive when I’m writing fiction.”

March 15, 2025

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**Joe Sacco** and **Art Spiegelman**, interviewed by **Will Simpson**

“I Can’t Go On, I Must Go On”

“I’ve been trying to find some way to engage and comment on what’s been going on in Israel and Palestine, feeling that I couldn’t really sit back as a noncombatant, ducking and covering while this was happening.”

March 8, 2025

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**Joy Neumeyer**, interviewed by **Dahlia Krutkovich**

Notes from Underground

“Today the Russian government classifies different forms of protest as regular crimes. These prisoners want their actions and their persecution to be recognized as what they are: political.”

March 1, 2025

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**Blair McClendon**, interviewed by **Nawal Arjini**

Dress It Up, Then Make It Real

“I’m a believer in the proscenium. An increasingly high-definition fidelity to life bores me; the point is to look through a veil.”

February 15, 2025

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**Eugene Volokh**

A Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia

March 20, 2025

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**Christopher R. Browning**

Trump, Antisemitism & Academia

April 10, 2025 issue

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**Mark O’Connell**

Single-Player Politics

March 16, 2025

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**Nadia Abu El-Haj**

‘Mahmoud Is Not Safe’

March 15, 2025

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**Witold Wirpsza**

Combustion

April 10, 2025 issue

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**Cathleen Schine**

Ungovernable, Capricious Life

April 10, 2025 issue

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**Laura Kolbe**

Still

April 10, 2025 issue

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Rigorous Innocence

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