
Nothing More Wondrous
A recent comparative study of medieval Christian and Islamic culture suggests that marvels offer common ground; wonder is a shared delight, a shared motive.
February 23, 2023 issue
A ‘Magic Mirror’ of Venice
The first-ever exhibition outside Italy of the works of Vittore Carpaccio is a bracing introduction to the artist who best captured the imaginative grandeur and the ceremonial refinement of early-sixteenth-century Venice.
February 23, 2023 issue
Very Free and Indirect
The intensity of experience that Katherine Mansfield sought in her short life is matched by the formal obliqueness she discovered in her stories.
February 23, 2023 issue
Brazil at the Crossroads
Lula’s election comes as a relief to many Brazilians, but in this historically violent and unequal country, a void in the democratic field endures.
February 23, 2023 issue
The Golden Age of Glossies
Women’s magazines were once a well-paying forum for inquiry into the interior life.
January 30, 2023
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Ursula Lindsey: Egypt Between Order and Chaos“Those with power act with impunity, appropriating for themselves the country’s resources behind closed doors. Ordinary Egyptians are forced to skirt the law just to get things done, making them complicit and vulnerable; if they actually challenge the status quo, they face overwhelming state violence.”
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