
Here’s Looking at Yew
In the English garden, eccentricity and variety went hand in hand.
April 6, 2023 issue
Collide, Collude, Confront
I was in Iraq to report “objectively” on the war. Collecting my photographs from two decades there, I wanted to expose the constraints of my perspective.
March 19, 2023
Putin’s Folly
A year after the invasion of Ukraine, Russia is mired in a seemingly endless military conflict. Is Putin the master tactician underestimating his adversary?
April 6, 2023 issue
The Unbearable Weight of Levity
In Clarice Lispector’s newspaper columns and crônicas, she seems sensorially overcharged by the quotidian, needing only the tiniest slice of existence to feed her writing.
April 6, 2023 issue
Appeasement at the Cineplex
Unable to resist China’s huge market, Hollywood has proven willing to alter its films to avoid offending Beijing.
April 6, 2023 issue
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Darryl Pinckney: The New Romantics“Not only do young novelists for the most part write very close to their experience, but these days, more often than not, the self has been idealized, in the way people demand that the camera return an air-brushed image of themselves.”
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