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Review: Robert Lee Williams on Astrid Roemer
Bedlam Claims Many St*ars
Review: Alexandra Lange on Shade
An urgent civic need, too long in the shadows
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Review: Andrew Katzenstein on J. Hoberman and the 1960s Avant-Garde
The clash between unfeeling, self-righteous authority and the aspiration for the liberation of the American soul
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Review: Geoffrey O’Brien on C. F. Ramuz
I came upon this book‘s 1944 edition on my parents’ bookshelves when I was around eleven, attracted irresistibly by its doom-laden prologue …
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July 2025

Review: Joy Williams on Edward Abbey and Ecotage
The book that made other environmental movements look timid, ineffectual, compromising, and dull, and its inheritors
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Diary: (2) Marina Warner on “The Books That Made Me”
Marina Warner has come to believe that we can’t live without the imaginative structures of myths and folktales, we absolutely need them, and she wonders…
Diary: (1) Marina Warner on “The Books That Made Me”
Serious readers once disparaged fairy tales and folklore as childish preoccupations but one reader came to see them as the building blocks of a communal…
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Review: Christian Caryl on Elaine Pagels and Paula Fredriksen
The Greatest Show on Earth: How early Christianity conquered the world
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Diary: Jean McGarry, New glasses
Reading Svetlana Alpers , studying Van Gogh and Vermeer, and getting new glasses
Review: Sarah Chayes on Robert Macfarlane, “Is a River Alive?”
A river is a tissue of dynamic and intimate relationships between arrowing, seeping, even air-wafted water and the land around, and the creatures within…

June 2025

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