Joshua Craze, Khalood Khair, and Raga Makawi
Sudan Starves

As its civil war rages on, Sudan is facing the largest famine the world has seen for at least forty years.

Martin Filler
A Long Exposure

The pioneering early French photographer Hippolyte Bayard has lived in the shadows of his more famous peers. A new exhibition brings him into the light.

Francisco Cantú
A Legacy of Plunder

“Michael Witgen’s Seeing Red examines the ways, both sweeping and quotidian, that early American settlers, traders, diplomats, and politicians stole and expropriated land. The Native people in Witgen’s account, however, are recognized not for their victimhood, but for their adeptness at reasserting their rights, dignity, and sovereignty against the supposedly insurmountable power of the state.”

Zhenya Bruno
Russian Decency

“Russia is structured by top-down commands and animated by informal relations all the way through. These relations involve people breaking orders, regulations, and laws to help others. Sometimes they solidify into networks of personal power; other times they are isolated ethical acts.”

Free from the Archives

Eight years ago today, some 17.5 million Britons voted to leave the European Union, setting into motion a series of negotiations that led, finally, to the United Kingdom’s exit from the EU at the end of 2020. In the Review’s August 18, 2016, issue, Zadie Smith, who was visiting her in-laws in Northern Ireland when the referendum’s results came in, wrote about Brexit, “an extraordinary act of solipsism” due in great part to “the shockingly irresponsible behavior of both David Cameron and Boris Johnson.”

Zadie Smith
Fences: A Brexit Diary

“‘Conservative’ is not the right term for either of them anymore: that word has at least an implication of care and the preservation of legacy. ‘Arsonist’ feels like the more accurate term.”

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