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Duncan Hosie
Bad Facts, Bad Law

In a recent Supreme Court oral argument about disarming domestic abusers, originalism itself was put to the test.

Ludwika Włodek
Waiting for a New Poland

Five weeks after the opposition won Poland’s legislative elections, its supporters are looking ahead to the country’s future.

Susan Tallman
‘Everything Will Be Alright’

Widely acclaimed as a painter, Kerry James Marshall has long used printmaking as a field of play.

Adam Shatz
Cries and Whispers

Throughout her long career, Meredith Monk has pushed beyond verbal language to explore the full potential of the human voice.

Free from the Archives

One hundred and fifty-nine years ago today, the Reverend C. L. Dodgson presented to Alice Liddell, the daughter of a friend, a hand-illustrated manuscript for Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, a story he had promised to write down after telling it to Liddell and her sisters on a rowboat.

Dodgson, better known, of course, by his pen name, Lewis Carroll, “was certainly a man with two profiles,” wrote John Bayley in the Review’s February 15, 1996, issue. Reading a new biography of Dodgson/Carroll, Bayley takes the measure of a pious writer, mathematician, photographer, and priest who “was not only an artist and a genius but a very odd fellow indeed.”

John Bayley
Alice, or The Art of Survival

“Among the welter of Victorian stories for children, which however spirited are always both sentimental and self-conscious, Alice’s adventures are unique. Reading them has an effect similar to reading the beginning of a story by Kafka—The Trial or ‘The Metamorphosis.’ The entry into a new and nightmare world is managed without preparation, with no sense of the narrator’s covert glances at the audience to see how they are taking it.”

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