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Leanne Shapton
Crossing to Safety

Diana Nyad has an astonishing ability for unfathomably difficult, even terrifying athletic feats, and, like many athletes, she achieved them in the aftermath of abuse.

Susan Tallman
The Sneaky Sublime

The Chicago artist Christina Ramberg recontextualized things built for another purpose, transforming the unremarkable into funny, stately, and transgressive forms.

Harrison Stetler
Macronism in Retreat

In France’s parliamentary elections, the left and center made a brief nonaggression pact—then resumed their mutual rancor. How, in the long term, can the country hold off the right?

Geoffrey Wheatcroft
A Tenuous Mandate

Labour’s landslide victory in the British elections was achieved with only a third of the popular vote. Will the new government be able to steer Britain out of crisis after fourteen years of failed Tory policies?

Abraham

a poem by
Victoria Chang

And then underneath the black strip on the canvas is
a small light. I used to think the black strip was the

actual painting. Now I think it’s what the black strip
is covering. The covering is impossible. No matter

how wide the strip is, light shines through…

Free from the Archives

In May 1975, then-senator Joe Biden wrote a letter to Hannah Arendt, asking for a copy of a lecture she had just given as part of a series in Boston called the Bicentennial Forums. The Review published the text of this lecture—on the subject of fascism, public relations, consumerism, and violence—the following month, in our June 26, 1975, issue.

Hannah Arendt
Home to Roost: A Bicentennial Address

“‘Progress,’ accompanied by the incessant noise of the advertisement agencies, went on at the expense of the world we live in, and of the objects themselves, with their built-in obsolescence, which we no longer use but abuse, misuse, and throw away. The recent sudden awakening to the threats to our environment is the first ray of hope in this development, although nobody, as far as I can see, has yet found a means to stop this runaway economy without causing a really major breakdown.”

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