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Our April 23 issue—the Spring Books issue—is now online, with a dispatch from Tehran, Jed Perl on Morgan Meis’s funky kind of art criticism, Francine Prose on MAGA fiction, Caroline Fraser on the dump, Michael Gorra on Civil War diaries, David Cole on the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship, Hermione Lee on Virginia Woolf’s letters, Trevor Jackson on American “retirement,” Kathryn Hughes on Tennyson’s cosmos, Colm Tóibín on Irish reunification, a collage by Lucy Sante, poems by Andrea Cohen and Timmy Straw, and much more.

Colm Tóibín
Reimagining the Future of Ireland

Two writers from different parts and traditions of the island argue with each other and themselves about the advantages and disadvantages of Irish unification.

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Francine Prose
Blood in the Game

For two novels that address the escalating violence, rampant corruption, and class resentment poisoning our society, Lee Clay Johnson’s Bloodline and Carl Hiaasen’s Fever Beach are also surprisingly funny.

Alice Kaplan
Misjudgment at Nuremberg

In James Vanderbilt’s film Nuremberg, about the trial of the major Nazi war criminals, the questioning of Russell Crowe’s all too charming Hermann Göring becomes a moment of invented high drama.

Hermione Lee
‘To Share Is Our Duty’

Two consummate Virginia Woolf scholars have added more than 1,400 letters to the corpus. On show are charm, careful condolence, generosity, candor about her reading and writing, and a belief that “communication is health.”

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Caitlin L. Chandler
Timid Europe

For the past month European leaders have lent tacit and sometimes open support to the US and Israel’s war in Iran—with one notable exception.

Bridget Alsdorf
‘Tell Me Your Worst’

Helene Schjerfbeck captured the difficulty—even the terror—of confronting the self.

Gini Alhadeff Reads from Nadja

In this episode of Private Life, the writer, translator, and editor Gini Alhadeff reads excerpts from Mark Polizzotti’s recent translation, for NYRB Classics, of André Breton’s 1928 surrealist novel, Nadja. Blending autobiography and fiction, this abidingly strange book recounts, analyzes, and remembers Breton’s brief love affair with the eponymous young woman in 1920s Paris. Listen to this episode and more at the link below.

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