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The President of Brooklyn

The saga of Eric Adams’s mayoralty has come to epitomize the spirit of Trump’s second term—from its ethos of aggrieved narcissism to its punitive approach toward the vulnerable.

Lucy Scholes
The Weight of Their Art

A new retrospective of the British artist and designer Tirzah Garwood—long overshadowed by her more famous husband—recovers the full scope of her life and work.

Joe Bucciero
In the Cut

The painter Walter Price keeps returning to a personal lexicon of images, as if hoping both to wear them out and make them new.

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.

Peter Singer
Circling the Good

In his new book the eminent philosopher Thomas Nagel asks whether humans are capable of redefining morality itself.

Free from the Archives

Mario Vargas Llosa died this week, age eighty-nine. In our May 26, 1994, issue, Alma Guillermoprieto’s first essay for the magazine was a review of Llosa’s memoir A Fish in the Water, the Peruvian Nobel laureate’s account of his coming of age, career, and, eventually, failed campaign for president—he lost to Alberto Fujimori—in 1990. “One is relieved to learn,” wrote Guillermoprieto, “that his disastrous campaign was but one episode in a life generously filled with drama, and that a sense of proportion and irony provided by experience has allowed his ego a swift recovery.”

Alma Guillermoprieto
The Bitter Education of Vargas Llosa

“What is exceptional, of course, is the novelist, whose consuming need is to deny rancor, to transcend the moral squalor around him. ”

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