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Gordon F. Sander
Ready for War in Sweden

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has so alarmed the Swedes that they have turned their backs on two centuries of neutrality and joined NATO, causing a profound shift in the country’s identity.

Christopher Benfey
Siding with Ahab

Can we appreciate Herman Melville’s work without attributing to it schemes for the uplift of modern man?

Colin Grant
Yearning for Redemption

Kingsley Ben-Adir’s performance as Bob Marley in One Love is seductive, but in treating the singer as a savior, the film loses sight of his complexity.

Ursula Lindsey
‘Hamlet’ in the West Bank

In Isabella Hammad’s Enter Ghost, an intrepid group of Palestinians stages Shakespeare’s tale of usurpation, suspicion, and revenge.

Free from the Archives

Soon after Venezuelan officials announced on Monday that Nicolás Maduro had been elected to his third term as the nation’s president, the opposition party accused Maduro and his party of electoral fraud and produced evidence that their candidate, Edmundo González, had won in a landslide.

In the Review’s March 8, 2018, issue, Enrique Krauze wrote about life in Maduro’s Venezuela: “a humanitarian crisis of immense proportions.”

Enrique Krauze
Hell of a Fiesta

“Maduro’s presidency has given rise to one of the most impressive defenses of democracy in the twenty-first century. Between April and July 2017, hundreds of thousands took to the streets to protest the decision of the Venezuelan Supreme Court—which Maduro controls—to dissolve the National Assembly, the only independent power that still existed in Venezuela, in which a two-thirds majority opposed the government. The demonstrators’ confrontations with the Bolivarian National Guard led to over 120 deaths, thousands of injuries, and the imprisonment and torture of hundreds.”

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