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The New York Review of Books

Impassioned Ferocity

Crossroads

Inside the Music

Storm Warnings

Cardiography

A Brief Literary Emancipation

Pervasive Impunity

Avant-Garde Égalité

On Devil’s Island • “Alfred Dreyfus: Vérité et justice,” at the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme, Paris (March 13–August 31, 2025)

Secular Priests

An Epistolary Critic

‘Insider and Outsider’

The Escape Artists

Eden of Wolves

Critical Theory

Looking Behind the Veil

Bedsit Metamorphoses

A Baleful Legacy

Love’s Anguish and Force and Terror