The New York Review of Books

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New York Review of Books

The Two Elizabeths

Last Poem • i.m. Paula Neuss & Sylvia Plath

‘She Captured All Before Her’

Silences and Scars

Lucky Guy

Alcaraz vs. Čilić

Alice Award • CELEBRATING OUR TENTH YEAR

The Bear’s Kiss

Symphilosophizing in Jena

The Specter of Our Virtual Future

‘An Age of Prudence’

China: Back to Authoritarianism

Agatha Christie’s Nightmares

Trouble in River City

Resurrecting a Polyphonic Past

Keep Your Eye on the Kid

Lice and Licentiousness

GALLERIES AND MUSEUMS • A CURRENT LISTING

LA Elegies

Hugging the Shores

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Emerson & His ‘Big Brethren’

A Fireball from the Sands

The Pope’s Many Silences