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Yasmine El-Rifae
A View from Cairo

The Egyptian government’s repression of its citizens and the Israeli government’s occupation of Palestine are inextricably linked.

Matthew Aucoin
Perpetual Expectation

The Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s operas have a pervasive aura of waiting for something just out of sight, shrouded in veil upon veil.

Catherine Lacey
The Woman in the Well

In Forbidden Notebook by Alba de Céspedes, a dissatisfied Italian everywoman starts keeping a diary, and eventually her own thoughts become too much to bear.

Piper French
UCLA: Whose Violence

For two days, UCLA’s pro-Palestine encampment was a site of violent aggression—committed not by the students but against them.

Walter Johnson
In Harvard Yard

Civil discourse and critical inquiry are not abstract concepts in the encampment. They are active principles.

Self-Portrait of the US as Conjoined Twins

a poem by Ansel Elkins

Free from the Archives

Katharine Hepburn was born 117 years ago today. In the Review’s June 30, 1988, issue, James Harvey wrote about a stack of biographies, memoirs, and romans à clef by and about the stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age, including Hepburn’s 1987 trifle (131 pages long), The Making of the African Queen, or, How I Went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind.

James Harvey
Screen Gems

“Hepburn’s book is entertaining because she is a fluent writer (how many movie stars could you say that about), and she has a talent for dialogue, especially when she is re-creating her initial encounters with Huston and the ways he had of making her feel like a fool.”

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