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Neve Gordon and Muna Haddad
The Road to Famine in Gaza

Hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza are at the brink of famine—a human-made disaster with roots in Israel’s history of using food as a weapon.

Merve Emre
As Long as You Both Shall Live

Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall reveals that every parent’s marriage plot is her child’s Bildung.

Héctor Tobar
The Truths of Our American Empire

Jonathan Blitzer’s new book deftly explains the impact of decades of US foreign policy on Central America, but fails to move beyond the troubled terrain of our immigration policy “crisis.”

Sidetracks XXXIV

a poem by 
Bei Dao,
translated from the Chinese by Jeffrey Yang

about Hong Kong      I know nothing
carrying an underground book for the trip
land at Kai Tak Airport      coral reef
shimmers
strangers look for the coordinates of lights
the skyline’s narrative pushes toward
climax
frogs hop inside the gut…

Andrew Delbanco
A Hell of a Performance

Norman Mailer wrote with an unstable mixture of self-indulgence and self-awareness, bravado and diffidence, glibness and bracing honesty, macho posturing and an almost sheepish gentleness.

Frances Wilson
Kate’s Two Bodies

Central to the PR crisis over Kate Middleton’s cancer diagnosis is whether her body should be seen as mortal or immortal.

NYRSeminars: Merve Emre on Lolita

Join Merve Emre as she leads a seminar on Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita. In this series of four weekly seminars, Emre will guide participants through the story of a brilliant, cruel, and obsessive man’s love for a twelve-year-old girl, touching on debates about freedom and morality, high art and mass culture, Old Europe and young America, and the entwined fates of comedy and romance in the postwar novel. Register today!

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