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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"> <channel> <title>The New York Review of Books</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com</link> <description></description> <atom:link href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/feeds/public/" rel="self"/> <language>en-US</language> <lastBuildDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 18:14:42 -0400</lastBuildDate> <item> <title>Catching the Moment</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/09/catching-the-moment-john-singer-sargent/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/fenton_2-050924.jpg" />John Singer Sargent saw into the souls of his models, whether they were society women, nude men, or lower-class Venetians. How did he do it?]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">James Fenton</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/09/catching-the-moment-john-singer-sargent/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Burning Up</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/09/burning-up-fire-weather-john-vaillant/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/washington_1-050924-900.jpg" />Reading John Vaillant's Fire Weather and Jeff Goodell's The Heat Will Kill You First, you may wonder if civilization is getting so hot that we're no longer thinking straight.]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">John Washington</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/09/burning-up-fire-weather-john-vaillant/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Voicemail from the Impaled</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/09/voicemail-from-the-impaled-emily-skillings/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="" />after Ebecho Muslimova The branch grows into my vaginaand exits my mouth.Like sellers of fine carpets, leaves unfoldtheir new colors at my lips.The lovers walk the scrawny pathto visit at their assigned hours.The one who is meanest is the one I most love.He brings me a fish full of needles.I am happy to providefor everyone […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Emily Skillings</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/09/voicemail-from-the-impaled-emily-skillings/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Flight Across the Heather</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/09/flight-across-the-heather-thomas-a-clark/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="" />pace out the terrain bait the line with herring plant kale talk about the weather separate rumor from intelligence phrase against the pulse * bog has suffered damage the drained sites prone to scrub invasion slow the water flow raise the water table rewet cracked peat brash crushing stump flipping ground smoothing * who cares […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Thomas A. Clark</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/09/flight-across-the-heather-thomas-a-clark/</guid> </item> <item> <title>What’s in a Face?</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/09/whats-in-a-face-what-does-a-jew-look-like/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/linfield_1-050924-900.jpg" />Two recent books of photographs by David Serry and Robert Stothard suggest there is no truth to the notion of a “Jewish race" with any unifying physical characteristics.]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Susie Linfield</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/09/whats-in-a-face-what-does-a-jew-look-like/</guid> </item> <item> <title>How American Eyes Got Modern</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/09/how-american-eyes-got-modern-trailblazing-women-printmakers/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tallman_1-050924-900.jpg" />The mid-century ideal of art as a departure into the unknown was not the exclusive property of heroic painters. Printmakers made cutting-edge art on a homier scale—and it was affordable.]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Susan Tallman</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/09/how-american-eyes-got-modern-trailblazing-women-printmakers/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Clamoring for Life</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/09/clamoring-for-life-until-august-gabriel-garcia-marquez/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/dorfman_1-050924.jpg" />Though exceptional, fully developed female characters abound in Gabriel García Márquez's work, only in his last novel, Until August, is a woman the uncontested protagonist on her own journey of self-discovery.]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Ariel Dorfman</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/09/clamoring-for-life-until-august-gabriel-garcia-marquez/</guid> </item> <item> <title>The Passion of Martha Graham</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/09/the-passion-of-martha-graham-errand-into-the-maze-jowitt/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/harss_1-050924-900.jpg" />The job of the biographer who sets out to write about a great artist lies in part in resolving the tug-of-war between the life and the work. The two are intimately connected, but a body of work is never fully explained by the experiences, psychology, love affairs, or cultural setting of the person who created […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Marina Harss</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/09/the-passion-of-martha-graham-errand-into-the-maze-jowitt/</guid> </item> <item> <title>‘Who Shall Describe Beauty?’</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/09/who-shall-describe-beauty-harlem-renaissance-and-transatlantic-modernism/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/pinckney_1-050924-900.jpg" />The Met’s Harlem Renaissance exhibition reveals the eclecticism of Black artistic practices and styles.]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Darryl Pinckney</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/09/who-shall-describe-beauty-harlem-renaissance-and-transatlantic-modernism/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Wanting for Nothing</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/09/wanting-for-nothing-playboy-constance-debre/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/debre_constance-050924-900.jpg" />Seen from a certain perspective, Constance Debré’s recent trilogy of novels—Playboy, Love Me Tender, and Nom (Name)—looks ready-made to appeal to audiences hungry for autobiographical tales of female self-emancipation. The books are based on events from Debré’s own life, the facts of which are as follows: born into an illustrious French family, Debré grew up […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Anahid Nersessian</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/09/wanting-for-nothing-playboy-constance-debre/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Nature’s Rival</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/09/natures-rival-canova-sketching-in-clay/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/rowland_1-050924-900.jpg" />Antonio Canova’s clay models reveal the creative struggle behind the classical perfection of his marble sculptures.]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Ingrid D. Rowland</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/09/natures-rival-canova-sketching-in-clay/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Israel: The Way Out</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/09/israel-the-way-out-david-shulman/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/shulman_1-050924-900.jpg" />If Israel is to survive, physically and spiritually, it needs to undergo, collectively, a sea change in its vision of reality and face some unpleasant though obvious facts.]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">David Shulman</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/09/israel-the-way-out-david-shulman/</guid> </item> <item> <title>The Must-Also-Haves</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/09/the-must-also-haves-nicole-eisenman/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/bell_1-050924-900.jpg" />In Nicole Eisenman's paintings and sculptures, a system’s impending demise may reveal itself in feverish hilarity.]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Julian Bell</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/09/the-must-also-haves-nicole-eisenman/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Journalistic Self-Censorship?</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/09/journalistic-self-censorship/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="" />To the Editors: The conditions experienced by foreign journalists in Russia worsened well before Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. I arrived in Moscow as The Guardian’s bureau chief in 2007, two decades after Jonathan Steele [“The Party Line,” NYR, March 21] did the same job for the same British newspaper. Within months, unpromising young […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Luke Harding, Jonathan Steele</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 07:30:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/09/journalistic-self-censorship/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Trump’s Delayed Reckoning</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/18/trumps-delayed-reckoning/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Wilentz202404_4.jpg" />On April 25 the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments to address what it has identified as the central issue in the case Donald J. Trump v. United States: “Whether and if so to what extent does a former President enjoy presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for conduct alleged to involve official acts during his […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Sean Wilentz</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 07:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/18/trumps-delayed-reckoning/</guid> </item> <item> <title>An Open Letter in Support of Luciano Canfora</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/17/an-open-letter-in-support-of-luciano-canfora/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Canfora202404_2.jpg" />Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, has sued Luciano Canfora, an eighty-one-year-old historian, philologist, and professor emeritus at the University of Bari, for aggravated defamation (diffamazione aggravata). The preliminary hearing took place yesterday. The case dates back two years, to when Meloni was an opposition parliamentarian and the leader of the Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy) […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Pierre Vesperini</dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:00:41 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/17/an-open-letter-in-support-of-luciano-canfora/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Tulips!</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/17/tulips-leanne-shapton/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/tu_opener-900.jpg" />A dispatch from the Art Editor]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Leanne Shapton</dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/17/tulips-leanne-shapton/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Tom’s Men</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/09/toms-men-tom-of-finland/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/earnest_1-050924-900.jpg" />Tom of Finland’s work has transformed from midcentury gay pornography to twenty-first-century art, but its troubling dimensions, as well as the ways it has creatively shaped the desires of a diverse range of queer people, cannot be ignored.]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Jarrett Earnest</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/09/toms-men-tom-of-finland/</guid> </item> <item> <title>The Next Mass Extinction?</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/14/the-next-mass-extinction/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Whang202404_3.jpg" />In August 2023 dead elephant seals washed ashore on beaches in Argentina. First a handful appeared outside Rio Grande, a coastal city on the eastern side of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago. The next day there were more. Then the sightings moved up the seaboard, from Rio Gallegos to the Chubut province to Rio Negro […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Oliver Whang</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2024 07:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/14/the-next-mass-extinction/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Synthetic Thinking</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/13/synthetic-thinking-jerome-groopman/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/groopman-e1712970301104.jpg" />For nearly two decades, Jerome Groopman has been writing for The New York Review of Books about all matters medical. In our latest issue, he reviews Andrew Leland’s memoir, which recounts the writer’s experiences as his eyesight declined. “The history of blindness is marked by humiliation and exploitation,” Groopman writes, but also by “liberation, epitomized by the development […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Jerome Groopman, Nawal Arjini</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2024 11:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/13/synthetic-thinking-jerome-groopman/</guid> </item> <item> <title>In the Path of Totality</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/12/in-the-path-of-totality/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Eclipse_202404_14.jpg" />I. Andrew Katzenstein in Mason, TexasII. Willa Glickman in Rochester, New YorkIII. Daniel Drake in Warren, VermontIV. Lucy Jakub in the Rangeley Lakes, Maine  🌘              🌗              🌓              🌒  Riders in the Sky Andrew Katzenstein in Mason, Texas I learned about this year’s eclipse in late 2016, when I read an article in The New York Review by James […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Andrew Katzenstein, Willa Glickman, Daniel Drake, Lucy Jakub</dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2024 07:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/12/in-the-path-of-totality/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Voice Lessons</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/11/voice-lessons-village-voice/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Lozano202404_4-e1712840686412.jpg" />In December 2016 I was sitting in The Village Voice’s fluorescently lit office in New York City’s Financial District, waiting to interview for a job. There was a strange flutter in the air; big news had just arrived. My phone had buzzed on the elevator ride up with a push alert bearing a New York […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Kevin Lozano</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2024 07:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/11/voice-lessons-village-voice/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Into the Cave</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/09/into-the-cave-jo-livingstone/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Jo.jpg" />Jo Livingstone and I first met at the Oxford Wine Café, a dingy spot just outside Oxford’s city center, in 2018. We had the most engrossing conversation two people have probably ever had about the medieval English mystic Margery Kempe, and how a critic can make old works of literature sing for a contemporary audience. […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Jo Livingstone, Merve Emre</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/09/into-the-cave-jo-livingstone/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Shipping’s Shadow World</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/09/shippings-shadow-world/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Ogle202404_1-feature.jpg" />In the early morning hours of March 26, emergency workers in Baltimore received a mayday call from the Dali, a 985-foot container ship. Shortly after setting sail from the city’s port, the vessel had lost power, and with it control over its engine and navigation instruments. It was on course to hit the Francis Scott […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Vanessa Ogle</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2024 07:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/09/shippings-shadow-world/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Where Next for Mexico?</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/07/where-next-for-mexico/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Mora-1-feature.jpg" />In June, when Mexico holds its fifth federal election since the end of one-party rule, Claudia Sheinbaum is almost certain to be elected president. An environmental scientist and former mayor of Mexico City, Sheinbaum is affiliated with the incumbent Movement for National Regeneration, or Morena. Most polls give her a double-digit advantage over the main challenger, Xóchitl […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Nicolás Medina Mora</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2024 07:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/07/where-next-for-mexico/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Games We Play</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/06/games-we-play-jacqueline-de-jong/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Needleman202404_9.jpg" />The Dutch artist Jacqueline de Jong loads her canvases with about as much potential energy as they can bear. The paintings in her “Billiards” series induce mild vertigo, so outlandish are their perspectives, so distorted their angles, so broad their crashing planes of color. Wrists cocked, focused but effortless, the subjects—likely fellow Amsterdammers playing carom, […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Sam Needleman</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2024 11:00:03 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/06/games-we-play-jacqueline-de-jong/</guid> </item> <item> <title>The Forms of the Tools</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/06/the-forms-of-the-tools-henning-wagenbreth/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/wagenbreth_040624-900.jpg" />“When students ask me today how they can find their style, I propose they put their computers and digital drawings pads aside and discover what happens with their own hands and bodies, with all the attendant mistakes, flaws, and shortcomings.”]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Henning Wagenbreth, Leanne Shapton</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/06/the-forms-of-the-tools-henning-wagenbreth/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Russia’s Election Ritual</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/01/russias-empty-election-rituals/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Kostyuchenko-feature.jpg" />Every time a foreign friend asks me about elections in Russia, I go through a familiar cycle: first awkwardness, then confusion, then shame. I freeze inside. Now I will have to tell them. I smile stupidly and choose my words: “We don’t exactly have elections in Russia.”  We have a ritual called an election. On […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Elena Kostyuchenko, Bela Shayevich</dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2024 09:19:11 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/01/russias-empty-election-rituals/</guid> </item> <item> <title>The Road to Famine in Gaza</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/03/30/the-road-to-famine-in-gaza/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Gordon_Haddad202403_7.jpg" />In the days that followed Hamas’s heinous October 7 attack on military bases, kibbutzim, towns, and the Nova music festival, several high-ranking Israeli officials announced that they intended to deprive Gaza’s civilian population of its most basic needs. At the time, over 80 percent of the goods entering the Gaza Strip came from Israel, which has kept […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Neve Gordon, Muna Haddad</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2024 13:39:54 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/03/30/the-road-to-famine-in-gaza/</guid> </item> <item> <title>The Price of Stability</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/03/30/the-price-of-stability-margaret-scott/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/scott-033024-900.jpg" />“Prabowo’s victory opens a window onto how the depredations, violence, and corruption of the Suharto era unevenly influence the present.”]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Margaret Scott, Willa Glickman</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/03/30/the-price-of-stability-margaret-scott/</guid> </item> <item> <title>The Corruption Playbook</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/04/18/the-corruption-playbook-trump-walter-shaub/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/shaub_1-041824-900.jpg" />Donald Trump’s plans to destroy civil service protections if reelected is more than an employees’ rights issue. What’s at stake is democracy itself.]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Walter M. 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I shall set everything down as precisely as I can…. I don’t expect these notebooks will ever be found. At the moment I don’t even know whether I hope they will be. Perhaps I will know, once I’ve finished.” Already, before we’ve finished the first […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Peter C. Baker</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/04/18/staying-alive-the-wall-marlen-haushofer/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Seeing the Power in Blindness</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/04/18/seeing-the-power-in-blindness-andrew-leland/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/groopman_1-041824-900.jpg" />A writer narrating his increasing loss of vision asks fundamental questions about sight and cognition.]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Jerome Groopman</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/04/18/seeing-the-power-in-blindness-andrew-leland/</guid> </item> <item> <title>A Hell of a Performance</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/04/18/a-hell-of-a-performance-norman-mailer/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/mailer_norman-041824-900.jpg" />Writing in 1998, fifty years after the publication of his first novel, The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer called his younger self an “amateur,” by which he intended something between self-deprecation and self-praise, leaning toward the latter. He had grown up in Brooklyn in a Jewish family that was modest in both means and […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Andrew Delbanco</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/04/18/a-hell-of-a-performance-norman-mailer/</guid> </item> <item> <title>The Digital Planet</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/04/18/the-digital-planet-environmentalism-from-below/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/nijhuis_1-041824-900.jpg" />Digital technologies are likely to worsen environmental problems, but they can also assist in the protection and restoration of ecosystems —and strengthen our relationships with them.]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Michelle Nijhuis</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/04/18/the-digital-planet-environmentalism-from-below/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Stifled Rage</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/04/18/stifled-rage-a-strange-life-louisa-may-alcott/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/may_louisa-041824-900.jpg" />Louisa May Alcott worked obsessively to become a successful writer, which meant that despite her gift for tart observation she often retreated into homilies and platitudes.]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Brenda Wineapple</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/04/18/stifled-rage-a-strange-life-louisa-may-alcott/</guid> </item> <item> <title>The Truths of Our American Empire</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/04/18/the-truths-of-our-american-empire-jonathan-blitzer/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img 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/>“Is the monarchy a suitable institution for a grown-up nation?” asked Hilary Mantel in “Royal Bodies,” an incendiary 2013 essay for the London Review of Books. “We are happy to allow monarchy to be an entertainment, in the same way that we licence strip joints and lap-dancing clubs.” The royal family are like pandas, Mantel […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Frances Wilson</dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 11:30:11 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/03/27/kate-middleton-two-bodies/</guid> </item> <item> <title>A Gender Emergency</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/03/26/a-gender-emergency-moira-donegan/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Donegan2-copy.jpg" />Moira Donegan joins us from Stanford University, where she is a writer in residence at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research. 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By the time they enrolled their daughter Mira in preschool, there were no other […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Samuel Stein</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2024 07:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/03/26/musical-chairs-nyc-housing/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Saint Josef</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/03/24/saint-josef-koudelka/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/feature.jpg" />An empty stretch of road hemmed in by high cement walls. The level tarmac shines with dew. A muezzin is heard over traffic. Signs point toward Rachel’s Tomb and Jerusalem. Soon a whirring noise picks up. An old man enters the frame reloading his camera. 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Twelve days later about half of them came back to the same space, wearing the same […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Chantal McStay</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2024 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/03/21/wallow-around-and-live-minujin/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Unfamiliar Colors</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/03/20/unfamiliar-colors-leanne-shapton/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/MS_OPENER-900.jpg" />A dispatch from the Art Editor]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Leanne Shapton</dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2024 17:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/03/20/unfamiliar-colors-leanne-shapton/</guid> </item> </channel> </rss>If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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