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Joseph O’Neill
Bring Back the Fight!
In recent weeks, Harris and Walz have replaced a dynamic movement with a meat-and-potatoes campaign. That needs to change.
Linda Colley
A Constitution Nowhere and Everywhere
Despite the absence of a single codified document, there is a long tradition of writing about the United Kingdom’s constitutional history.
Merve Emre
Something in the Dark
Djuna Barnes’s short stories return again and again to characters suffering from love, fear, and alienation.
Anahid Nersessian
Speaking the Unspeakable
The Palestinian American poet Fady Joudah asks what it would mean—aesthetically, morally, politically—to write a good poem about genocide.
Nate Wooley
Eastern Sounds
Ahmed Abdul-Malik recorded six overlooked albums combining jazz and North African folk music. A new European quartet has revived his legacy to create a new music of their own.
Lifer
Free from the Archives
Tomorrow will be the one-year anniversary of Hamas’s attack on Israel, “in which,” Fintan O’Toole wrote for the NYR Online three days later, “more people died violently in Israel in a single day than ever before in the turbulent history of the state.”
Yet even by October 10, O’Toole observed, “retaliation against noncombatants has been established as Israel’s equal and opposite reaction to Hamas’s crimes and it foreshadows horrors even greater than the many hundreds of Gazans already killed by Israeli air strikes.”
Fintan O’Toole
Eyeless in Gaza
“Was it ever likely that keeping 2.3 million people in a state of suspended animation would make Israel safe?”
