Arendt and Roth: An Uncanny Convergence
Despite very different lives, the two writers not only knew and liked each other, but also found common cause in the great concerns that animated their work.
May 12, 2021
Modi’s Folly
His citizens are dying in thousands for lack of basic medical care, yet India’s leader is pressing ahead with a self-aggrandizing makeover of New Delhi.
May 10, 2021
Russian Metamorphoses
Teffi’s supernatural tales ask what we can understand about the nature of events, and about the transformative moments that thread events together into stories.
May 27, 2021 issue
The Rules of the Confidence Game
The Book of Charlatans provides an unusual glimpse into the street life of medieval Islamic societies rarely captured in more elevated Arabic literary sources.
May 27, 2021 issue
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Good Children’s Books!
“There is no great children’s book which does not reflect the obsession or fantasy of the author,” Margot Hentoff wrote in her 1970 review of books by Roald Dahl, E.B. White, Paul Zindel, and Maurice Sendak, “and none in which that obsession or fantasy does not correspond to something of the same in the child.”
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