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Our October 8 issue is now online, with Michael Gorra on Nancy Lemann’s New Orleans, Fintan O’Toole on Roy Cohn’s demons, Anahid Nersessian on a novel of middle-aged masculinity, Jerry Brown on nuclear apocalypse, Drew Gilpin Faust on the slavers’ archives, Frances Wilson on Charles and Mary Lamb, Ian Tattersall on Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Ariel Dorfman on Vargas Llosa’s final novel, Rachel Nolan on the decade of mass protest, Simon Callow on Martin Sherman’s Bent, poems by Jessica Laser and Yara Zgheib, and much more.

Jerry Brown
‘I Taste Ashes in the Wind’

Nuclear weapons pose an apocalyptic threat, and yet the issue has largely faded from public consciousness. In the era of Trump and Putin, it is imperative that we pursue international disarmament.

Ariel Dorfman
The Strange Music of Mario Vargas Llosa

Mario Vargas Llosa’s final novel follows a thwarted dreamer who is writing a book that represents all of Peru through the sentimental dance music known as the vals peruano.

Drew Gilpin Faust
The Slave’s Power

Two recent books employ inventive approaches to read against the grain of the archive of slavery produced by those who built and benefited from it.

Rachel Nolan
Can Resistance Be Copied?

Trying to learn repeatable lessons from a decade of mass protests around the world

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