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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"> <channel> <title>The New York Review of Books</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com</link> <description></description> <atom:link href="https://www.nybooks.com/articles/feeds/public/" rel="self"/> <language>en-US</language> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 11:35:41 -0400</lastBuildDate> <item> <title>Let It Tumble</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/05/18/let-it-tumble-joanna-biggs/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/biggs_051824-900.jpg" />“I’m drawn always to a certain richness or boldness; I know I’m going to like something if there’s death, sex, and family all in the first fifty pages.”]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Joanna Biggs, Lauren Kane</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/05/18/let-it-tumble-joanna-biggs/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Second Hand News</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/05/18/second-hand-news-stereophonic/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Gold202405_5.jpg" />Partway through David Adjmi’s new narrative play, Stereophonic, five musicians and singers, assembled behind a recording studio’s glass window, workshop their new material live on stage. 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Bailey</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/06/06/let-there-be-light-look-again-met-european-galleries/</guid> </item> <item> <title>The Best Time of His Life</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/06/06/the-best-time-of-his-life-great-expectations-vinson-cunningham/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/cunningham_vinson-060624-900.jpg" />Vinson Cunningham’s novel Great Expectations is nominally about the experiences of an Obama campaign staffer but is really a glimpse into the formation of a critical mind.]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Ruth Margalit</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/06/06/the-best-time-of-his-life-great-expectations-vinson-cunningham/</guid> </item> <item> <title>In the Heart of Bahia</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/06/06/in-the-heart-of-bahia-crooked-plow-itamar-vieira-junior/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/junior_itamar_vieira-060624-900.jpg" />For Americans trying to understand Brazilian history, it may help to think of Brazil’s North as akin to the American South and the Brazilian South as resembling our North. It was in Brazil’s coastal Northeast, more than a century before Jamestown, that the Portuguese established their first permanent settlements. In colonial times a plantation-based monoculture […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Larry Rohter</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/06/06/in-the-heart-of-bahia-crooked-plow-itamar-vieira-junior/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Best in Show</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/05/15/best-in-show-leanne-shapton/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/dog_1-900.jpg" />A dispatch from the Art Editor]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Leanne Shapton</dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2024 15:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/05/15/best-in-show-leanne-shapton/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Georgia Erupts</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/05/15/georgia-erupts/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Caryl-feature.jpg" />I’ve visited Tbilisi, the capital of the Republic of Georgia, several times over the past few years. It’s a likable place, with rich cultural offerings, fine food and wine, and hospitable people. This March, however, the city seemed gripped by a sense of unease. Everyone I spoke to on my visit—politicians, civil society activists, and […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Christian Caryl</dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2024 12:02:28 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/05/15/georgia-erupts/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Is Israel Committing Genocide?</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/06/06/is-israel-committing-genocide-aryeh-neier/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/neier_1-060624-900.jpg" />I have been engaged for six decades in the human rights movement, which has endeavored to restore peace by enforcing International Humanitarian Law. Can the law bring a measure of justice to the victims of Israel’s and Hamas’s violence?]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Aryeh Neier</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/06/06/is-israel-committing-genocide-aryeh-neier/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Why Not Memes?</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/05/14/why-not-memes-lauren-michele-jackson/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Jackson-Lauren-Michele_c.jpeg" />The first essay by Lauren Michele Jackson that I ever read was published in the summer of 2020, a week or so into the protests following the death of George Floyd. Many media outlets and English departments had published an “anti-racist reading list” or “anti-racist syllabus,” and a swarm of more or less identical essays on the […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Lauren Michele Jackson, Merve Emre</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/05/14/why-not-memes-lauren-michele-jackson/</guid> </item> <item> <title>A View from Cairo</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/05/12/a-view-from-cairo/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-1735191721_f.jpg" />In February satellite photographs of a new militarized buffer zone along Egypt’s border with Gaza circulated online. The Egyptian government was silent about the matter for a few days, then said that the area was being prepared so that aid trucks could enter the besieged Palestinian territory through the Rafah border crossing. Unnamed Egyptian officials also told NPR and […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Yasmin El-Rifae</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2024 07:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/05/12/a-view-from-cairo/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Reading, Reading, Reading</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/05/11/reading-reading-reading-peter-baker/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Peter-Baker-cropped.jpg" />Two thirds of the way into Peter C. Baker’s review of a recent translation of The Wall, a 1963 postapocalyptic novel by Marlen Haushofer, he arrives at a series of questions that underlie mysteries, science fiction, and, implicitly, literature as a whole: “Why write? Why describe your life for others? Why do anything at all?” […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Peter C. Baker, Daniel Drake</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2024 11:20:45 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/05/11/reading-reading-reading-peter-baker/</guid> </item> <item> <title>UCLA: Whose Violence?</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/05/11/ucla-whose-violence-gaza-encampment/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/French202405_2.jpg" />Around 10:30 in the morning on Thursday, May 2, a handful of volunteer attorneys stood on a small lawn sandwiched between two jails, waiting for protesters arrested within UCLA’s Palestine solidarity encampment to be released from custody. One of the lawyers made a noise of disbelief and held their phone out to show the others […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Piper French</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/05/11/ucla-whose-violence-gaza-encampment/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Inside Uber’s Political Machine</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/05/09/inside-uber-political-machine/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/GettyImages-1148200314-copy.jpg" />In 2016, near the end of his second term as president, Barack Obama was asked what he planned to do on returning to civilian life. He gave a one-word reply: “Uber.” The joke suggested two changes that had occurred during his presidency. First, Uber had become a verb; the idea of “ubering” was commonplace. Second, […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Katie J. Wells, Declan Cullen, Kafui Attoh</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2024 07:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/05/09/inside-uber-political-machine/</guid> </item> <item> <title>In Harvard Yard</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/05/08/in-harvard-yard-gaza-encampment/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Johnson202405_2.jpg" />When students set up the tents at Harvard on April 24, I was standing with the police on the steps of the building that houses the president’s office. The NYPD had already made its first round of arrests at Columbia’s Gaza solidarity encampment, and two days earlier faculty and students had been arrested trying to […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Walter Johnson</dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2024 12:34:15 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/05/08/in-harvard-yard-gaza-encampment/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Death and Detention on the Texas Border </title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/05/05/death-and-detention-on-the-texas-border/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/GDV-feature.jpg" />It began as a small group: a few dozen travelers drifting towards the border, full of fear and hope, united in the belief that they could change their fates. Well-wishers along the route gathered to bid them good luck, to pray for them, to remind them that they were on a righteous path. The group’s […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Gaby Del Valle</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 07:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/05/05/death-and-detention-on-the-texas-border/</guid> </item> <item> <title>More Real Than Life</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/05/04/more-real-than-life-i-saw-the-tv-glow/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/WinslowYost202405_8.jpg" />What kind of place is the Internet? A few years ago, an essay called “The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet,” by Yancey Strickler, one of the founders of Kickstarter, started getting passed around online. In it, he observed that as the publicly accessible Internet gets more hostile, besieged by “the ads, the tracking, the […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Gabriel Winslow-Yost</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2024 09:15:46 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/05/04/more-real-than-life-i-saw-the-tv-glow/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Dancing on the Page</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/05/04/dancing-on-the-page-erica-getto/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/getto_050424-900.jpg" />“How do I capture what happened—and what moved me—during a performance that most of my readers will never have a chance to see?”]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Erica Getto, Daniel Drake</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/05/04/dancing-on-the-page-erica-getto/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Safe Havens</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/23/safe-havens-butler-to-the-world-bullough/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/slobodian_1-052324-900.jpg" />The UK’s ”second empire” of tax-free jurisdictions around the world persists despite the overwhelming evidence that it enables corruption, drains public budgets, and exacerbates inequality.]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Quinn Slobodian</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/23/safe-havens-butler-to-the-world-bullough/</guid> </item> <item> <title>The Whistleblower We Deserve</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/23/the-whistleblower-we-deserve-an-enemy-of-the-people-ibsen/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/otoole_1-052324-900.jpg" />The ambiguous hero of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People is a man of science who insists on the primacy of truth and evidence. But he’s also, possibly, a bit of a fascist.]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Fintan O’Toole</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/23/the-whistleblower-we-deserve-an-enemy-of-the-people-ibsen/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Translation Without Angels</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/23/translation-without-angels-walt-hunter/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="" />I was given an idea of the good and I was taken quickly from the same idea, though at first it was as simple as a tree I saw the ground, conserving summer, populate with geese, some deer, the pachysandra. The good was what I had without myself. When I describe it now, the whole […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Walt Hunter</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/23/translation-without-angels-walt-hunter/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Supersize That?</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/23/supersize-that-supertall-billionaires-row/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/filler_1-052324-900.jpg" />New supertall skyscrapers planned for Manhattan will reduce the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building to the scale of souvenir tchotchkes. With the current glut of unoccupied office space, they may be the last of their kind.]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Martin Filler</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/23/supersize-that-supertall-billionaires-row/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Ecstasy’s Odyssey</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/23/ecstasys-odyssey-the-history-of-mdma/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/jay_1-052324-900.jpg" />When the creator of MDMA first experimented with the drug, he felt a mellow sensation that he compared to "a low-calorie martini."]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Mike Jay</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/23/ecstasys-odyssey-the-history-of-mdma/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Transatlantic Flights</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/23/transatlantic-flights-denise-levertov-anne-stevenson/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/levertov_and_stevenson-052324-900.jpg" />The collected poems of Denise Levertov and Anne Stevenson suggest what a poet can gain by expatriation, in both directions between England and the United States.]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Ange Mlinko</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/23/transatlantic-flights-denise-levertov-anne-stevenson/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Triumphs of Skepticism</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/23/triumphs-of-skepticism-a-memoir-of-my-former-self-hilary-mantel/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/mantel_hilary-052324-900.jpg" />Hilary Mantel wrote in favor of the doubting, the irreverent, and even the fickle against conservatism, nostalgia, and sentiment.]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Clair Wills</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/23/triumphs-of-skepticism-a-memoir-of-my-former-self-hilary-mantel/</guid> </item> <item> <title>How Bondage Built the Church</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/23/how-bondage-built-the-church-the-272-rachel-swarns/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/miles_1-052324-900.jpg" />Rachel Swarns’s recent book about a mass sale of enslaved people by Jesuit priests to save Georgetown University reminds us that the legacy of slavery is simultaneously the legacy of resistance.]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Tiya Miles</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/23/how-bondage-built-the-church-the-272-rachel-swarns/</guid> </item> <item> <title>The Woman in the Well</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/23/the-woman-in-the-well-forbidden-notebook-alba-de-cespedes/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/de_cespedes_alba-052324-900.jpg" />In Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes, a dissatisfied Italian everywoman starts keeping a diary, and eventually her own thoughts become too much to bear.]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Catherine Lacey</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/23/the-woman-in-the-well-forbidden-notebook-alba-de-cespedes/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Perpetual Expectation</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/23/perpetual-expectation-lamour-de-loin-saariaho/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/aucoin_1-052324-900.jpg" />The Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s operas have a pervasive aura of waiting for something just out of sight, shrouded in veil upon veil.]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Matthew Aucoin</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/23/perpetual-expectation-lamour-de-loin-saariaho/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Dr. B</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/23/dr-b-jill-a-biography-of-the-first-lady/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/biden_jill-052324-900.jpg" />Jill Biden is a barrier-breaking national figure. 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United States, on whether a former president enjoys immunity from prosecution for crimes committed while in office. The Court did not need to accept the case; it could easily have passed on former President Donald Trump’s extraordinary claims of blanket immunity and allowed […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Sean Wilentz</dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 07:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/05/01/the-immunity-con-donald-trump/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Choosing Pragmatism Over Textualism</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/23/choosing-pragmatism-over-textualism-stephen-breyer/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/breyer_1-052324-900.jpg" />A method of judicial interpretation that looks only to the original meaning of legal texts risks producing a Constitution and laws that no one would want.]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Stephen Breyer</dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/05/23/choosing-pragmatism-over-textualism-stephen-breyer/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Storm Over Columbia</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/27/storm-over-columbia-nadia-abu-el-haj/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Abu-El-Haj_headshot.jpg" />On December 24, 2023, the NYR Online published an essay by Nadia Abu El-Haj about the crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech at Columbia University and Barnard College, where she holds the Ann Whitney Olin professorship in the anthropology department and codirects the Center for Palestine Studies. “Since the start of the latest Israel–Palestine war,” she wrote, […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Nadia Abu El-Haj, Max Nelson</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 14:42:35 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/27/storm-over-columbia-nadia-abu-el-haj/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Haiti on the Precipice</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/27/haiti-on-the-precipice/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Haiti-Feature.jpg" />On Thursday Ariel Henry formally resigned as prime minister of Haiti. Few were grateful for his service. Over thirty-two months, the longest premiership since 1987, Henry presided over a country where life grew steadily worse. For the past five years armed groups had terrorized the capital, Port-au-Prince; in January they intensified their assault. On February […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Pooja Bhatia</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 07:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/27/haiti-on-the-precipice/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Photographing a Lost New York</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/25/photographing-a-lost-new-york/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Lyon202404_8.jpg" />In the fall of 1966, when I was twenty-four, I returned to New York. I was finally completing the journey home I had begun when I left New Orleans in the winter of 1964. My friend, the sculptor Mark di Suvero, lived in a building on the corner of Fulton and Front Streets; I looked […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Danny Lyon</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 07:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/25/photographing-a-lost-new-york/</guid> </item> <item> <title>Migrant Workers in Their Own Land</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/21/migrant-workers-in-their-own-land/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Ross-feature.jpg" />At the start of last October over 200,000 Palestinians worked in Israel. Mostly they labored in construction and, to a lesser extent, in agriculture: leaving their homes in the morning, showing their work permits at checkpoints, building houses and roads, harvesting fruit and vegetables, then returning in the evening. At least 150,000 were from the […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Andrew Ross</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2024 09:40:36 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/21/migrant-workers-in-their-own-land/</guid> </item> <item> <title>A Curious Temperament</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/20/a-curious-temperament-julian-bell/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/bell-julian-900.jpg" />“I don’t have any programmatic agenda for art, merely a hope to cut through received patterns of thought.”]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Julian Bell, Sam Needleman</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2024 10:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/20/a-curious-temperament-julian-bell/</guid> </item> <item> <title>The Company She Keeps</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/20/company-she-keeps-molissa-fenley/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Fenley_Hemispheres_1-copy.jpg" />In 1988 Vaslav Nijinsky visited the dancer and choreographer Molissa Fenley in her New York City studio. He had been dead for nearly forty years—longer than Fenley had been alive. But as she worked on a wrenching, thirty-five-minute solo called State of Darkness, set to Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring (1913), she couldn’t shake […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Erica Getto</dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2024 08:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/20/company-she-keeps-molissa-fenley/</guid> </item> <item> <title>In Gaza’s Hospitals</title> <link>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/19/in-gazas-hospitals/</link> <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AlNajjar202404_7.jpg" />I was born in the spring of 1999 in the village of Khuza’a, east of the city of Khan Younis, in the Gaza Strip. My family comes from a village called Salama, near Jaffa on the Palestinian coast, from which they were displaced by Zionist forces in 1948. Khuza’a was a place of green fields […]]]></description> <dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Omar al-Najjar</dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 04:00:00 -0400</pubDate> <guid>https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/04/19/in-gazas-hospitals/</guid> </item> </channel> </rss>If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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