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Artificial intelligence may be the first attempt to automate and discipline human labor that even its creators don’t fully comprehend.

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It is likely to be remembered as the high point of Donald Trump’s tumultuous first presidency. On May 15, 2020, joined by cabinet members, public health

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You scrub from my throat the darkness that sticks to songstraveling at the speed of light. The songs you play are all I hear. With our morningcoffee and

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‘This Land Is Yours’ | Nell Irvin Painter | The New York Review of Books

Two recent books recover the missing Black history of upstate New York, challenging the delusion of New York as a land of freedom far removed from the American original sin of slavery.

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Build, Britannia! | Martin Filler | The New York Review of Books

In 1944 the British architecture and design writer John Gloag declared, without much fear of contradiction, that “the modern movement does not yet speak

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Angles of Approach | Sally Rooney | The New York Review of Books

What makes Ronnie O’Sullivan the greatest player in the history of snooker? It isn’t just statistical dominance—it lies in his style, in the difference between thinking and acting.

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An Expanding Vision of America | Nicole Eustace | The New York Review of Books

Major new books about the peoples who lived in North America for millennia before the arrival of Europeans are reshaping the history of the continent.

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Ordinary Germans | Neal Ascherson | The New York Review of Books

We know who the Nazis were and what they did. In Hitler's People, the distinguished historian Richard J. Evans seeks to explain what what made them capable of doing it.

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Echoes of Eternity | Jed Perl | The New York Review of Books

The critic Arlene Croce found in classical ballet timeless values in a timely form, but she looked to modern dance for the reverse: timely values taking on a timeless form.

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On Ocracoke I sit in the sand & smoke,Sipping an okra Coke. Only in the South,I say, missing my mouth. At least I don’t choke On the flavor, cough

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The Chronicler of Unhappiness | Michael Dirda | The New York Review of Books

Ford Madox Ford’s sensuous, vital novels often drew on the events of his rich and muddled life.

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Studies for His Mind | Clare Bucknell | The New York Review of Books

In 1877 the German classicist Adolf Michaelis had almost completed the research for his catalog of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture held in British

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War and Peace in Munich | Caitlin L. Chandler | The New York Review of Books

At the city’s annual international security conference, European leaders vowed to double down on national defense. At what cost?

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A Milton for All Seasons | Catherine Nicholson | The New York Review of Books

The many radical rereadings of Paradise Lost

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A Self Divided | Laura Marsh | The New York Review of Books

Since the rise of cable TV, corporations have sought to capture our valuable attention. But the way social media shatters our ability to focus has new implications for public discourse and politics.

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Bureaucrats and Billionaires | Trevor Jackson | The New York Review of Books

What happens when power and responsibility become unmoored from each other? The political events of recent months have provided new clarity to this old We are living through an inflection moment in the distribution of impunity.

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‘Trump Gaza Number One’ | Zadie Smith | The New York Review of Books

The AI-generated vision of postwar Gaza that Trump posted on social media was only thirty-three seconds long, but it spoke volumes about how his administration sees the world.

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Donald Trump's abandonment of Ukraine has been even more inept and inexplicable than the appeasement of Hitler at Munich.

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Russian human rights organizations estimate that there may be as many as 10,000 political prisoners scattered across the country’s penal colonies. Last

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Patriarchal Bargains | Moira Donegan | The New York Review of Books

In her long-out-of-print study of conservative gender politics, Andrea Dworkin reflected on how right-wing women seek safety and status within a movement that demeans them.

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Authoritarian Blitz | Joseph O’Neill, Daniel Drake | The New York Review of Books

In the weeks since Donald Trump’s second inauguration, the president and his party have embarked on a concerted campaign to unmake the American

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Meghan O’Rourke is a best-selling, award-winning poet, memoirist, and critic who also happens to be my neighbor. She is the person whose door I knock on

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In the world of her grandparents in rural Nova Scotia, Elizabeth Bishop found a deep well of inspiration—and Christian beliefs she would always struggle against.

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The photographer Boris Mikhailov has spent a lifetime seeing through the illusions of Soviet and post-Soviet Ukraine.

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In March 2022 a man named Tom Fitzharris brought three letters to the offices of The New York Review of Books. They were part of a cache of fifty that had

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The vast social world of Andrew O’Hagan’s new novel is designed to pose a challenge to good liberal values.

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Painting Myself | Celia Paul | The New York Review of Books

When I look in the mirror, I can’t see myself. Perhaps the difficulty I experience is due to the static posture I must assume in front of the glass. If I

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Donald Trump promised that he will make public funds available to private as well as religious schools in every state, and this is what his party wants,

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As two paintings by Caravaggio return to public view, it is possible to hope that his best-known lost work will reappear after almost half a century.

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Henrietta Szold devoted her life to the conviction that diaspora Jews should have a strong emotional connection to the Holy Land and to building a Jewish society in Palestine. But how useful is her ’cultural’ Zionism for Jewish Americans today?

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The terrible fires in January were another reminder that urban planning in Los Angeles has long failed to protect the city from the natural disasters that repeatedly threaten the region.

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A number of new books recount the horror America created and then left in Afghanistan. Can anyone grasp the realities of occupation and the "war on terror" if they haven’t been on their receiving end?

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The BBC series Mr Loverman, about a closeted West Indian grandfather and his family, explores the submerged emotional lives of the Windrush generation in Britain.

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A new biography of Anthony Hecht shows that his life was as various and unexpected as his poems, which evolved from modernist pastiche to extended experiments with the dramatic monologue.

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