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Our April 9 issue is now online, with Pankaj Mishra on India and Iran, Pablo Scheffer on the art of tennis, Yi-Ling Liu on the Shenzhen engineers, Miranda Seymour on Muriel Spark’s spark, Joshua Hammer on the hellish firebombing of Tokyo, Jenny Uglow on J.M.W. Turner and John Constable, Ben Lerner on John Berger, Dan Rockmore on the allure of algebra, Omari Weekes on Tyriek White’s Brooklyn, Ange Mlinko on költészet, Michael Dirda on The Count of Monte Cristo, Fintan O’Toole on Trump’s meaningless and violent war, a poem by Timothy Donnelly, and much more.

Yi-Ling Liu
Shenzhen Express

In Shenzhen, the successes and failures of China’s remarkable new economy are on full display.

Ben Lerner
Crowds and Lovers

In his novel G., John Berger shifts between the revolutionary possibilities of mass demonstrations and of erotic encounters, ultimately writing a historical novel about the present.

Miranda Seymour
Deciphering Dame Muriel

In Electric Spark, Frances Wilson attempts to crack the ingenious codes that were of prime importance in Muriel Spark’s life and writing.

Jenny Uglow
Rivals of the Landscape

The more we learn about J.M.W. Turner and John Constable, the more extraordinary it seems that two such breathtakingly original painters could emerge and flourish at the same time in the British art world.

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Loubna El Amine
Lebanon’s Negations

Tenuous modus vivendis have always defined the Lebanese state. Israel’s war will merely create a new one—at the cost of great destruction and death.

Richard Hell Reads from Godlike

In this episode of Private Life, Richard Hell reads from his novel Godlike (2005), which was reissued last month by NYRB Classics with a new afterword by Raymond Faye. Godlike tells the story of a writer perambulating downtown Manhattan in the 1970s and pining for a young poet who probably won’t love him back, closely mirroring the doomed romance between the nineteenth-century French poètes maudits Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine. Listen to this episode and more at the link below.

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