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Our April 24 issue—the Spring Books Issue—is now online, with Laura Marsh on Katie Kitamura’s low-key thrillers, Fintan O’Toole on the end of the transatlantic alliance, Vivian Gornick on the wonders of City College, Jenny Uglow on the moon, Erin Maglaque on sex with Christians, Thomas Powers on Lonesome Dove, David Cole on academic freedom, Merve Emre on Tom Wolfe’s most infamous novel, Peter Singer on what makes morality, Omer Bartov on Israel’s abandonment of morality, a poem by Jorie Graham, and much more.

Omer Bartov
‘Infinite License’

The memory of the Holocaust has, perversely, been enlisted to justify both the eradication of Gaza and the extraordinary silence with which that violence has been met.

Thomas Powers
A Mighty Theme

Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove is “the Moby-Dick of the plains”—the great book about the American West.

Vivian Gornick
The 176-Year Argument

At the University of Chicago all they wanted to know was, What’s the theory? At Yale all they wanted to know was, What’s the technique? At City College of New York all they wanted to know was, How does this relate to real life?

Jenny Uglow
Lunar Myths and Mysteries

Two new books explore our growing scientific understanding of the moon as well as its powerful appeal to the imagination.

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Michael McFaul
Don’t Join the Autocrats!

Trump’s overtures to Vladimir Putin are not just morally wrong but damaging to the US’s long-term interests.

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