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David Shulman
A Deadly Apathy

A blank indifference to cruelty and atrocity as a normative mode of waging war has infected Israel’s collective conscience.

Caroline Fraser
Dispirited Away

The rise and fall of an evangelical church, founded with progressive intentions and undone by dissension and bad faith

Claudio Lomnitz
Risky, Ephemeral, Revolutionary Prints

A survey of Mexican printmaking shows how enduringly the country’s illustrators blurred the boundary between art and the world of the working poor.

Ian Tattersall
Look Who’s Talking

When did our first linguistic ancestor emerge, and how did the transition from a nonlinguistic to a linguistic state take place?

Frances Wilson
Irresistible Iris

Iris Murdoch’s readers return to her to understand the relationship between high intelligence, erotic extremism, and moral virtue.

Free from the Archives

Twenty-one years ago today, Spirit, one of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rovers, landed on the red planet. Seven years earlier, in the Review’s September 25, 1997, issue, Timothy Ferris wrote about the future of manned space flight and the dream of traveling to the fourth planet.

Timothy Ferris
Some Like It Hot

“George Bush in 1989 made a Kennedyesque proclamation committing the nation to a manned Mars landing by the year 2019, but NASA priced the mission at $450 billion, Congress balked, and the Space Exploration Initiative, as it was called, has been moribund ever since.”

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