Joshua Leifer
A ‘Moral, Strategic, and Diplomatic Abyss’
In the latest round of disputes within Israel’s ruling coalition, the eliminationist, messianic far right seems poised to triumph.
Yuri Slezkine
A Sacred Scripture of Doubt
A new book by Gary Saul Morson tells how Russian realist fiction foretold, frustrated, and outlived the Bolshevik quest for certainty.
Kevin Power
The Kitsch Abyss
Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest puts all its faith in cinematic technique and forfeits much of the meaning in Martin Amis’s 2014 novel.
Jed Perl
Reimagining the Ordinary
The French artist Jean Hélion approached painting with a philosophical precision, each style a hypothesis to be investigated and tested.
Tim Parks
Reading Against the Novel
In hundreds of essays and reviews, the nineteenth-century lawyer and judge James Fitzjames Stephen considered the novel’s effects on society at a time when it was becoming the dominant form of entertainment.
Free from the Archives
On July 3, 2012, Charles Simic, who had been drafted into the US Army in 1961, wrote a reminiscence of the balmy Fourth of July weekend leading up to his long-anticipated discharge.
Charles Simic
My Fourth of July
“I recall sprinting through the gate of Fort Hamilton into the busy street and hailing a taxi that had just turned the corner. I may have shoved a soldier and his parents out of my way to get in, but I didn’t care. They could not have stopped me with a bullet. It was three o’clock in the afternoon and the traffic was already crawling on the East River bridges, but I was in heaven.”
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