Duncan Hosie
How DeSantis Packed the Florida Supreme Court
In pushing the state court to the right, the governor of Florida has been carrying out a mission of the Federalist Society and removing barriers to his political agenda.
Julian Bell
Opulence and Humility
An exhibition devoted to Saint Francis forms a doorway between artistic tradition and the wider terrain of spirituality.
Rahmane Idrissa
Sudan’s Repressed Democracy
The fighting in Khartoum, now in its third month, is the latest disaster for a democracy movement that has long resisted Sudan’s ruling regimes.
Daniel Mendelsohn
Remembering Robert Gottlieb
“What spoke to Bob, what he believed in and trusted and fostered in his own writers, was work that had honest intentions and stylistic conviction.…”
Lucy Jakub
Love’s Work
Hayao Miyazaki was, in truth, making films for himself: “We animators are involved in this occupation because we have things that were left undone in our childhood…. Those who fully graduated from their childhood leave it behind.”
Free from the Archives
In the July 20, 1972, issue of the magazine, Thomas R. Edwards reviewed three rather distinct novels—Michael Crichton’s The Terminal Man (“inert”), Frederick Buechner’s Open Heart (“a bit too suggestive of your friendly neighborhood pastor, the young one with the longish hair and the rock records”), and Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Enemies, A Love Story (“the sympathetic imagination of a writer of genius and an understanding of the important but cruelly narrow possibilities of this world”)—as a way of diagnosing the condition of “a world whose mysteries may be meaningless,” where “secular man is necessarily man in trouble.”
Thomas R. Edwards
People in Trouble
“A novelist can deal with trouble by washing his hands of it after enough pages have been filled, or he can try to show that it needn’t be as troublesome as we suppose it.”
