
A Daring Departure
One hundred and fifty years after Impressionist paintings were first exhibited, it takes a certain effort to recover their original radicalism.
February 27, 2025 issue
In Lieu of Love
Diana Athill chose a life of sexual and intellectual exploration. Could she get it all down on the page?
February 27, 2025 issue
‘Life, Work, and Architecture’
Elizabeth Mock, whose exhibitions on domestic architecture thrilled midcentury museumgoers, believed that contemporary design should be for everyone.
February 5, 2025
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
Waiting by the Phone
Have our intimate lives taken on the worst features of the free market?
February 27, 2025 issue
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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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