
Brazil: The Threat from the Right
Former president Jair Bolsonaro and his allies have brought violence into Brazilian political discourse, with consequences that will endure.
February 27, 2025 issue
Days and Nights in Gaza
Watching TV that first day, we awaited the roar of planes and the rumble of explosions. We didn’t have to wait long.
February 9, 2025
The Great Leap Backward
Lea Ypi’s memoir of her childhood in Communist Albania asks whether individual freedom is always elusive, even in liberal democracies.
February 27, 2025 issue
Rebooting the Pentagon
Bringing Silicon Valley’s drive for innovation to defense contracting has been a slow process, but the war in Ukraine has led tech firms to plunge into the war business.
February 27, 2025 issue
Cherchez les Femmes
An exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery retells the history of transnational modernism from the perspective of expatriate American women.
February 8, 2025
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Claire Messud: Aiming to PleaseIn Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín has “accomplished something quietly majestic. His calm, lucid, and patient prose—the same prose with which, in his last triumph, The Master, he conjured the ineffable fibrillations and significant inactions of Henry James himself, Anglophone modernism’s arch-observer and perhaps most self-conscious character—has given life, in young Eilis Lacey, to a creation initially too modest even to be Everywoman.”
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