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Our April 10 issue is now online, with Michael Gorra on the majesty of Caspar David Friedrich, Cathleen Schine on Hanif Kureishi, Wendy Doniger on letting slip the horses of war, Adam Thirlwell on Lars von Trier, Christian Caryl on denazification, Miri Rubin on Christian supremacy, Jonathan Mingle on the phosphorous shortfall, Brenda Wineapple on the history of American social movements, Geoffrey O’Brien on Fifties Hollywood, Christopher R. Browning on Trump’s antisemitism, poems by Witold Wirpsza and Laura Kolbe, and much more.

Jonathan Mingle
Planet Ooze

We cannot grow the crops that feed eight billion people and counting without phosphorus. At the rate we waste this precious element, how long will supplies last?

Michael Gorra
Lost in the Landscape

The Met’s Caspar David Friedrich exhibition offers an introduction to an artist whose work—luminous, disturbing, serene—reveals an all-encompassing physical realm.

Cathleen Schine
Ungovernable, Capricious Life

In Hanif Kureishi’s astonishing memoir of his life after the fall that left him tetraplegic, the sense of vulnerability is crushing, but it’s also part of what makes the writing so intimate.

Wendy Doniger
The Rise and Fall of Warhorses

You can tell the history of a large part of the world by who had what horses when.

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Matthew Rivera
Frankie Newton: Lost and Found

A trove of newly discovered newspaper articles written by the trumpeter shines fresh light on his enigmatic life.

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