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Dahlia Scheindlin
Israel: The Left in Peril

Since October 7, Israel’s left has encountered unprecedented repression. Could its ideas nonetheless point the way forward?

Marina Warner
No Freedom to Move

The current politics of immigration have twisted human nature against itself, fostering unimaginable maltreatment of those who wish only to survive and live a better life.

Clair Wills
The Collector

For the characters in Jeremy Cooper’s novels, art—looking at it, talking about it, sending it in the form of postcards—is the currency of human relationships.

Jonathan Mingle
The Crash to Come

Insurance companies have responded to climate disasters by raising premiums and dropping customers. Now there’s a new housing bubble waiting to burst.

Rough Slabs of Jade

a poem by 
Alice Gribbin

God of a lack of abundance, wanting,
bone strength, ready god,
among the lemon groves your presence
is disputed. Even after
they are picked, the fruits keep breathing…

Free from the Archives

For the Review’s December 5, 1991, issue, Ian Stewart wrote about a biography of Srinivasa Ramanujan, the early-twentieth-century mathematician who “was born into a poor Brahmin family, contracted smallpox at the age of two, flunked out of college twice, went through an arranged marriage with a girl of ten, and was described by Ramachandra Rao as ‘a short, uncouth figure, stout, unshaved, not overclean.’”

Ian Stewart
In the Jungle of the Infinite

“The classical theta functions were invented for such purposes as calculating the perimeter of an ellipse. They are a rich source of intricate formulas. Ramanujan, purely for reasons of formal beauty, had invented his own variation on the classical theme. It was a mathematical goldmine, and he was stimulated to produce some of the best mathematics he had ever done.”