
Diary of an Adducer
Elif Batuman’s Either/Or is faithful to the experience of growing up; whether we want fiction to depict reality accurately is a separate matter.
July 21, 2022 issue
The Lady Vanishes
The narrator of María Gainza’s new novel tracks a forger in the counterfeit art world of Buenos Aires as part of an effort to authenticate herself.
July 21, 2022 issue
‘She’s Capital!’
The figure of the Whore is everywhere in art, her beauty to be gazed upon and admired. With the Internet, has she finally found her own artistic terrain?
July 21, 2022 issue
The Enigma of Nonarrival
Though Roy Heath spent most of his life in Britain, he returned again and again in his fiction to Guyana.
July 21, 2022 issue
Memory Wars in Latvia
In Riga, the invasion of Ukraine has revived controversies over Soviet-era monuments and anxieties about Russian expansionism.
July 21, 2022 issue
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Edmund S. Morgan and Marie Morgan: Jefferson’s Concubine“Only a man as driven and ingenious as Jefferson could have reworked slavery into the form it took at Monticello. But human beings are not drive gears, and human institutions are not steam engines. Slavery within Jefferson’s domains could be modified and freed of some of its constraints. It remained slavery.”