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Our June 20 issue—the University Press Issue—is now online, with Catherine Nicholson on ye olde books, Mark Lilla on postliberals in the Catholic Church, Martin Filler on a surreal penthouse, Meghan O’Gieblyn on the fleeing nun, Adom Getachew on Black diasporas, Jonathan Lethem on Charles Portis, Christine Henneberg on abortions post-Roe, Francisco Cantú on the plunders of American expansion, Zhenya Bruno on Russian “decency,” Brian Seibert on Rodgers and Hammerstein, poems by Frederick Seidel and Jenny Xie, and much more.

Christine Henneberg
‘I Still Would Have Had That Abortion’

Well-meaning supporters of abortion tend to tell stories that focus on decisions rather than experiences. This is the rhetorical legacy of a reproductive rights movement that has for too long focused on “choice” rather than “rights.”

Catherine Nicholson
Livelier Than the Living

In the Renaissance, reading became both a passion and a pose of detachment—for those who could afford it—from the pursuits of wealth and power.

Brian Seibert
‘You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught’

Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, once kings of American culture, invented a new kind of musical theater in shows like Oklahoma!, Carousel, and South Pacific. But by the time of their final work together, a critical backlash had begun.

Martin Filler
Up on the Roof

Carlos de Beistegui’s Parisian penthouse apartment, designed by Le Corbusier, was the product of two supreme egotists squaring off against each other.

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