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Jonathan Steele
The Party Line

A new book about Western journalists’ experience in Moscow during World War II sheds light on the problems of media manipulation and self-censorship in coverage of Russia today.

Meghan O’Gieblyn
The Trouble with Reality

William Egginton’s intellectual biography of Borges, Kant, and Heisenberg takes place at the intersection of physics and religion, and traces the errors that result when we forget the limits of our human point of view.

Catherine Coleman Flowers
Life and Death in Alabama

The recent struggle over IVF in my home state reveals how little value its government places in human life.

Morning of Departure

a poem by 
Catherine Barnett

The neighbor’s mulberry tree
spilling its fruit
onto the sidewalk stained the old sneakers
I took from my mother’s closet,
but there was no need
to steal, there’s almost nothing you
can ask for
that my mother wouldn’t give you,
except maybe
the bone from a T-bone steak…

Christopher Bosso
Eyes on the Farm Bill!

Congress’s periodic battles over the Farm Bill often pass unnoticed, but the document effectively determines what, how, and how much we eat.

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And the Nominees Are . . .

The ninety-sixth Academy Awards telecast is tonight, and from among the fifty-three films and short films that are nominated for awards this year, seven were discussed in the Review.

Martin Filler on Oppenheimer

A. S. Hamrah on Mission: Impossible–Dead Reckoning, Part One

Lauren Michelle Jackson on Barbie

Christine Smallwood on Poor Things

Francine Prose on El Conde

Philip Clark on Maestro

David A. Bell on Napoleon

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