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Vanessa Ogle
Nothing Gold Can Stay

Gold is both a vehicle for disguising illicit financial flows and a product of illicit activity itself.

Giles Harvey
‘Bonds and Gestures’

Long Island, Colm Tóibín’s sequel to his novel Brooklyn, is a concentrated study of the missed or canceled life.

Jérôme Tubiana
Darfur: A War Within a War

As a civil war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces rages across Sudan, Arab and non-Arab communities are once again fighting in Darfur.

Lucy Sante
A Human Among Humans

The photographer Larry Fink never saw social events as a disposable theme. For him, they were life itself.

Jé Wilson
Real Misfits in Real Gardens

The Italian director Alice Rohrwacher’s films often focus on incongruous moments of enchantment within communities living at the margins of society.

Bash Bish Falls

a poem by
Aaron Poochigian

There is the sheer spectacle of this falls:
it always plummets and it never dies.
But if you close your eyes
the rush recalls

a dead-on headwind’s steel wool of blare
rebuking an intrusive jumbo jet…

Free from the Archives

In our February 13 issue, Giles Harvey reviews Colm Tóibín’s latest novel, Long Island, a sequel to Brooklyn, from 2009, which Harvey calls “Tóibín’s most concentrated study of the missed or canceled life.”

In our May 28, 2009, issue, Claire Messud read Brooklyn and found it to be “a meaningful accomplishment indeed.”

Claire Messud
Aiming to Please

“Colm Tóibín, with his new novel Brooklyn, has…accomplished something quietly majestic. His calm, lucid, and patient prose—the same prose with which, in his last triumph, The Master, he conjured the ineffable fibrillations and significant inactions of Henry James himself, Anglophone modernism’s arch-observer and perhaps most self-conscious character—has given life, in young Eilis Lacey, to a creation initially too modest even to be Everywoman.”

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