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Frances Wilson
‘Diabolical Fame’

Composed of rhapsody and opinionation, without shape or chronology, Roger Lewis’s biography of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton tries to get at the strangeness of stardom.

Linda Greenhouse
Social Progress & the Courts

For decades Gerald Rosenberg, author of The Hollow Hope, has argued that courts labor under structural constraints that will almost always deprive them of the ability to bring about significant change. He would be entitled to a triumphant “I told you so” but for one dramatic development: the 2015 Supreme Court decision that recognized a constitutional right to same-sex marriage.

Peter Brooks
In Search of His Vocation

The best description of In Search of Lost Time may come from what Proust calls dreams in its opening pages: “a formidable game with time.”

The Moon

a poem by 
Mosab Abu Toha

She’s lying on the asphalt.
Her small belly, her chest,
her forehead, her hands,
her cold feet bare in the night…

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On the NYR Online

Joe Bucciero
Out There

The abstract painter Budd Hopkins had by the mid-1980s also become a prominent writer on UFOs. How did his two careers intersect?

Amjad Iraqi
Unilateral Actions

The impending invasion of Rafah—where over 1.4 Palestinians are trapped—shows how far Israel has pushed its ambitions in Gaza.

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