Raja Shehadeh
Causes for Despair

The human suffering that the people of Gaza have endured in the past three weeks is beyond comprehension.

Joshua Leifer
Inhumane Times

Israel’s current war seems to be as much a brutal insistence on the collective punishment of the Palestinian people as an offensive against Hamas.

Meghan O’Gieblyn
Up All Night

Harald Voetmann’s protagonists live in the distant past, but are prototypically modern: men of science who are intent on outrunning our primal nightmare.

Martin Filler
The Neotraditionalist

The architect Robert A. M. Stern is America’s most vociferous and successful exponent of a Classicism that would be considered anachronistic in much of the rest of the world.

Andrew Durbin
Reverent Vulgarity

Isa Genzken’s sculptures—precision-engineered, playfully assembled, or readymade—show a winkingly subversive artist engaged in a dire Dadaist game.

Geoffrey O’Brien
Gorging on the Act of Looking

A series at Film Forum recovers the great 3-D wave of 1953 and the new frontiers of perception it promised.

Onions

a poem by 
Andrea Cohen

I always think of Pauline going
down the stairs I always hold
on thinking how going down
she must have tripped she
was always going fast after
all we called her the Flash…

Free from the Archives

In September 1988, ten months into the First Intifada and six weeks after the PLO signaled its acceptance of the UN Partition Resolution of 1947—thereby acceding to the possibility of a two-state solution in Israel and Palestine—the  Palestinian writer Anton Shammas took to the pages of the Review to “indulge in examining what the morning after the establishment of the state would be like.”

Anton Shammas
The Morning After

“I am afraid the similarity between Palestinian and Jewish experience is more than rhetoric-deep: if the Palestinians do not try to learn from the errors of the Jews, they will end up establishing a duplicate of the Jewish state on the other side of the Green Line, another ethnic state that will self-righteously call itself, as Israel does, ‘the only democracy in the Middle East.’”

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