Today in The New York Review of Books: Willa Glickman unearths the history of a New York cemetery; Amish Raj Mulmi takes the temperature of postrevolutionary Nepal; and, from the archives, Janet Adam Smith on A.A. Milne.

Willa Glickman
Life Storage

Protecting graves in New York City has never been easy.

Amish Raj Mulmi
Nepal’s Republic of Amnesia

After overthrowing the government last fall, can Nepal’s youth movement address the inequities that have burdened the country since its founding?

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Free from the Archives

Alan Alexander Milne was born 144 years ago today. In the Review’s September 20, 1990, issue, Janet Adam Smith wrote about Milne, his halcyon childhood, his mathematical acumen, his work for Granta and Punch, his stifled literary ambitions, and, naturally, his most famous creations—Pooh, Eeyore, Christopher Robin the character, and Christopher Robin Milne the son.

Janet Adam Smith
Poohdom

“The world of the Pooh stories is wild and anarchic—though never violent and never really dangerous. There are no fixed routines, no nursery rules. Pooh gets up when he feels like it, eats whenever he fancies a little something, and enjoys Doing Nothing and also—when he feels like it—adventuring in search of the North Pole, without any grownup to say Don’t, or Take Care, or Be Back by Teatime. And it all has to come to an end when Christopher Robin disappears into the disciplined, time-tabled world of school.”

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