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Fintan O’Toole
The Trouble with Ancestry
Two recent family histories authored by Americans connected to Europe’s terrible twentieth century by their fascist grandfathers seek to occupy the void between history and memory.
Colin Grant
A Reconfigured Self
Margo Jefferson takes fractured shards of memory and pieces them together imperfectly to to create what she calls “cultural memoir and confessional criticism.”
Jed Perl
The Modern Hephaestus
David Smith was an expressionist with an all-or-nothing approach to art who reveled in the violent acts of metalworking that created new forms of permanence.
Lily Meyer
A Cockeyed Faith in Better Men
The strongest current running through Rachel Ingalls’s fiction is the boundary-shattering energy of female desire, which, whether satisfied or denied, she depicts as both a life-giving force and a destroyer of worlds.
The Rescue
You are afraid to be touched because
and that’s a reasonable fear, a woman once
brushed past me in the aisle
or stairs, I’ve repressed the encounter
in amber, she said, and I was destroyed…
J. Hoberman
Jammin’ in the Panoram
During World War II, proto–music videos called “soundies” blared pop patriotism from visual jukeboxes across American bars.
Free from the Archives
On Labor Day 2011, the New York Review published online a commemoration of seventy-two migrants who in August 2010, crossing Mexico on their way to the United States, were massacred about a hundred miles south of the Texas border. The selection in the Review was part of a project called 72 Migrantes, which was put together by Alma Guillermoprieto with a group of Mexican journalists and writers in order to bring the individual stories of each of the victims to light.
72 Migrantes
Sacrificing Their Lives to Work
“When it was established in the late nineteenth century, Labor Day was intended to honor the American working man. Yet a great deal of our menial labor today is performed not by American citizens but by undocumented migrant workers—many of whom risk their lives in thousand-mile journeys simply to get to the United States. A year ago this August, 72 of those migrants—58 men and 14 women—were on their way to the US border when they were murdered by a drug gang at a ranch in northern Mexico, in circumstances that remain unexplained.”
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