Joe Sacco This story is drawn from “Kushinagar,” which appeared originally in French in XXI, no. 13, January/February/March 2011, and will appear in English in Joe Sacco’s new collection Journalism, to be published by Metropolitan Books on June 19. As Sacco writes, explaining how he came to draw a c
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Garry Wills AP Photo/Stephan Savoia Mitt Romney laughs while addressing supporters at a campaign rally in Boston, March 6, 2012 Everyone has noticed by now the non-laugh laugh of Mitt Romney, a kind of half-stifled barking. But what does it mean? It is blurted out as abruptly as it is broken off. Is it a kind of punctuat
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Jared Diamond Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson Gary Knight/VII Women in Darfur returning from Kutum market to the Fata Borno camp for internally displaced persons under the protection of African Union soldiers, January 2007; pho
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David Shulman The Crisis of Zionism by Peter Beinart Benjamin Netanyahu; drawing by Pancho Even apart from the disastrous political consequences of current Israeli policy, it is critical to recognize that what goes on in the territories is not a matter of episodic abuse of basic human rights
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Jeff Madrick CNBC German Chancellor Angela Merkel during an interview in Berlin, March 16, 2012 The announcement Wednesday by Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel, that her nation is ready to discuss economic stimulus to keep Greece in the eurozone is—if serious—a hugely important development. But the critic
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Larry Rohter To the Editors: As someone who often traveled and worked with the late Nicolas Reynard in the Amazon for weeks at a time, I imagine that he would have been amused to find himself described in John Terborgh’s essay “Out of Contact” [NYR, April 5] as an “American with limited jungle experience.” Neither
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Paul R. Billings and Hyman Gross To the Editors: Richard Lewontin, in his review of DNA uses in forensics [“Let the DNA Fit the Crime,” NYR, February 23], correctly notes that the position of experts including his own has evolved as the testing improved, now employing genomic sites and population databases that yield les
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Robert R. Holzer, reply by Charles Rosen To the Editors: Charles Rosen’s thought-provoking essay “Freedom and Art” [NYR, May 10] contains a small error of fact. He writes, “Mozart sets this [the passage in Don Giovanni’s first-act finale in which the title character greets his guests with “Viva la libertà!”] a
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Thomas Powers To the Editors: Several readers have protested my failure in a recent piece on Eisenhower [NYR, April 26] to mention his approval of covert operations to overthrow governments in Iran and Guatemala. Both of these episodes were unjustified and created a world of trouble that we all live with still. But in my rev
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Rose Styron To the Editors: If anyone has information about this fine photo taken of my late husband, William Styron, I’d be so grateful if you would contact me at styronphoto@gmail.com. Rose Styron Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts
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Marcia Angell, reply by Ronald Dworkin Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Getty Images President Obama with Supreme Court Justices John Roberts, Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, and Sonia Sotomayor before his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill, January 24, 2012 To the Editors: I admire Ronald Dwork
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Sanford Schwartz Cindy Sherman an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, February 26–June 11, 2012 Cindy Sherman/Metro Pictures Cindy Sherman: Untitled #353, 36 x 24 inches, 2000 The end result of Cindy Sherman’s many approaches is a roller coaster of discontent, at time
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Charles Simic A still from Chess Fever (1925), a film by Shakhmatnaya Goryachka When my mother was very old and in a nursing home, she surprised me one day toward the end of her life by asking me if I still wrote poetry. When I blurted out that I still do, she stared at me with incomprehension. I had to repeat what I s
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Elaine Blair Girls a television series on HBO created by Lena Dunham Mark Seliger/HBO Lena Dunham as Hannah Horvath in Girls There are many reasons to love Lena Dunham’s HBO television show Girls, and some of them have nothing to do with sex, but I’m going to begin with the sex scene in t
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Robert Darnton Anne Day The Rose Main Reading Room at the 42nd Street branch of the New York Public Library; photograph by Anne Day from the new edition of Henry Hope Reed and Francis Morrone’s The New York Public Library: The Architecture and Decoration of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. It is published by No
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Tim Parks Christopher Anderson/Magnum Photos A man driving through Catia, a violent slum in Caracas, Venezuela, 2005 Is the novel a space of intense engagement with the world, of risk and adventure? Or is it a place of refuge, of hanging back from life? The answer will be all too easy if we are living in a country that d
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Garry Wills Palazzo Massimo alle Terme A Roman sarcophagus depicting a bride and groom (center), 270-280 CE President Obama is clinging to a nonsensical distinction between civil unions of same-sex partners and their marriage.* Why is that? He is bowing to the pressure from religious groups who do not want gays to have t
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Alastair Macaulay Freedom and the Arts: Essays on Music and Literature by Charles Rosen Alison Beth Waldman/SparkAction.org Charles Rosen receiving the National Humanities Medal from President Obama at the White House, February 2012 Even those of us who admire Charles Rosen as the most r
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Joost Hiltermann Getty Images Bahraini youths run for cover as police fire teargas during Labor Day protests in the Manama suburb of Sanabis, May 1, 2012 Until 2011, the tiny island nation of Bahrain was mainly known to the outside world for one thing: an annual Formula One car race, the first of its kind in the Middle E
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David Cole AP Photo/Susan Walsh John Yoo Sometimes I think being American means never having to say you’re sorry. On Wednesday, May 2, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, a federal appeals court in San Francisco, unanimously dismissed a lawsuit against former Justice Department lawyer John Yoo by José Padil
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J. Hoberman Milestone The apartment setting of Shirley Clarke's The Connection Re-released in a lovingly restored print on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, Shirley Clarke’s debut film The Connection is an excavated relic of an earlier New York. The movie adapts an off-Broadway blockbuster—Jack Gelber
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Darryl Pinckney Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? What It Means to Be Black Now by Touré Kehinde Wiley Studio, Inc. Kehinde Wiley: The Virgin Martyr St. Cecilia, 101.5 x 226.5 inches, 2008; from Kehinde Wiley, a monograph of Wiley’s paintings of contemporary African-Americans in heroic poses, ju
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Geoffrey O’Brien The Artist a film directed by Michel Hazanavicius Hugo a film directed by Martin Scorsese The Phantom Carriage a film directed by Victor Sjöström Weinstein Company Jean Dujardin as a silent film star in Michel Hazana
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Garry Wills The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro Francis Miller/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images Robert F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson at the ground-breaking ceremony for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C., December 1964 Robe
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