Innholdsfortegnelse for November 22, 2018 i The New York Review of Books

NEAL ASCHERSON is the author of Black Sea, Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland and the novel Death of the Fronsac. He is an Honorary Professor at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. SUSAN BARBA is a Senior Editor at New York Review Books. Her most recent collection of poetry is Fair Sun. CHRISTOPHER CLARK is Regius Professor of History at Cambridge. His books include The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 and Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947. LOUISE GLÜCK ’s most recent books are American Originality: Essays on Poetry and the poetry collection Faithful and Virtuous Night, which won the National Book Award. JEROME GROOPMAN is the Recanati Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at the Beth…

1 Giuseppe Penone: The Inner Life of Forms is a new examination of the artist’s more-than-forty-year career, revealing what constitutes sculpture through the interplay between the human body, nature, and art. Four new essays by Tim Ingold, Rémi Labrusse, Emily Braun, and Salvatore Settis and a conversation between the artist and the book’s editor, Carlos Basualdo, appear in one volume, while twelve insightful texts by Daniela Lancioni, each an independent booklet, investigate the main typologies that constitute the work’s organizing principles. 13 paperbacks in box, 490 pages, $200. Limited edition with etching: edition of 50, $5000 USD; edition of 200, $2500 USD Related Events: Penone and Basualdo will discuss the monograph at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on Friday, November 9, at 6pm; and at the Greene Space, New York,…

A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America’s Schools by Rachel Devlin. Basic Books, 342 pp., $32.00 The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind by Justin Driver. Pantheon, 564 pp., $35.00 The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools by Vanessa Siddle Walker. New Press, 468 pp., $32.99 In 1971 William Rehnquist faced a bruising confirmation hearing for a seat on the United States Supreme Court. Seventeen years earlier, in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the Court had ruled that state-sponsored segregation of schools was unconstitutional. But in 1952, as a clerk for Justice Robert Jackson, Rehnquist had written a memo defending the separate-but-equal doctrine that…

Day and night comehand in hand like a boy and a girlpausing only to eat wild berries out of a dishpainted with pictures of birds. They climb the high ice-covered mountain,then they fly away. But you and Idon’t do such things— We climb the same mountain;I say a prayer for the wind to lift usbut it does no good;you hide your head so as notto see the end— Downward and downward and downward and downwardis where the wind is taking us; I try to comfort youbut words are not the answer;I sing to you as mother sang to me— Your eyes are closed. We passthe boy and girl we saw at the beginning;now they are standing on a wooden bridge;I can see their house behind them; How fast you go…

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In Byron’s Wake: The Turbulent Lives of Byron’s Wife and Daughter: Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace by Miranda Seymour. Pegasus, 547 pp., $35.00 Ada Lovelace: The Making of a Computer Scientist by Christopher Hollings, Ursula Martin, and Adrian Rice. Bodleian Library, 114 pp., $35.00 On March 20, 1816, Annabella, Lady Byron, received a poem in the mail. In fifteen stanzas, Byron’s “Fare Thee Well” was a cascade of brokenhearted loss and love: All my faults perchance thou knowest, All my madness none can know; All my hopes, where’er thou goest, Wither, yet with thee they go. It was quickly published in a limited edition of fifty copies. Yet within a few days Byron was attacking Annabella for blackening his name, “as if it were branded on my forehead,” and sending…

The Polish Boxer by Eduardo Halfon, translated from the Spanish by Daniel Hahn, Ollie Brock, Lisa Dillman, Thomas Bunstead, and Anne McLean. Bellevue Literary Press, 188 pp., $14.95 (paper) Monastery by Eduardo Halfon, translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman and Daniel Hahn. Bellevue Literary Press, 158 pp., $14.95 (paper) Mourning by Eduardo Halfon, translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman and Daniel Hahn. Bellevue Literary Press, 155 pp., $15.99 (paper) Halfway through Monastery, its narrator, a writer and teacher of literature named Eduardo Halfon, is en route from his native Guatemala to Belize, where he has been invited to give a reading at a university. After a tense encounter with a thuggish border official—Halfon’s Guatemalan passport has expired, but he has a valid Spanish one—the battery in his borrowed…

ANTHOLOGY MIDDLE EASTERN LITERATURE The Arab Renaissance: A Bilingual Anthology of the Nahda Edited by Tarek El-Ariss Designed for the classroom, this groundbreaking anthology of Arabic Renaissance texts and English translations includes introductions to specific writers and works of the Nahda as well as explanatory notes by the translators. This volume will be of interest to students of the Arabic language and culture, history, cultural studies, gender studies, and other disciplines. Pub Jun 2018. 5.5 x 8.5 in. 448 pp. Modern Language Association ISBN 978-1-60329-303-7 P/$22.00 BIOGRAPHY Becoming Lincoln William W. Freehling Renowned historian William Freehling charts the heights and depths of Lincoln’s prewar years, revealing how an ordinary young man prepared to become the Great Emancipator. 384 pp. UV Press ISBN: 9780813941561 C/$29.95 ISBN: 9780813941578 E/$29.95 Between Two Millstones,…

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The Hospital: A Tale in Black and White by Ahmed Bouanani, translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud, with an introduction by Anna Della Subin. New Directions, 143 pp., $14.95 (paper) The Shutters by Ahmed Bouanani, translated from the French by Emma Ramadan. New Directions, 127 pp., $16.95 (paper) In 1967 the Moroccan writer and filmmaker Ahmed Bouanani contracted tuberculosis and was confined for six months in the Moulay Youssef Hospital in Rabat. In 1990 he published a novel, The Hospital. In the first lines, its unnamed narrator tells us, “When I walked through the iron gate of the hospital, I must have still been alive. At least that’s what I believed since I could smell the scents of a city on my skin, a city that I would never…

On August 25 Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò published an eleven-page letter in which he accused Pope Francis of ignoring and covering up evidence of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church and called for his resignation. It was a declaration of civil war by the church’s conservative wing. Viganò is a former apostolic nuncio to the US, a prominent member of the Roman Curia—the central governing body of the Holy See—and one of the most skilled practitioners of brass-knuckle Vatican power politics. He was the central figure in the 2012 scandal that involved documents leaked by Pope Benedict XVI’s personal butler, including letters Viganò wrote about corruption in Vatican finances, and that contributed to Benedict’s startling decision to abdicate the following year. Angry at not having been made a cardinal and…

Your Duck Is My Duck: Stories by Deborah Eisenberg. Ecco, 226 pp., $26.99 In the title story of Deborah Eisenberg’s new collection,Your Duck Is My Duck, the unnamed narrator, a painter, is sharing a guesthouse with Amos Voinovich, an avant-garde puppeteer. The beneficiaries of a wealthy couple’s largesse, they’ve been put up at a baronial estate in an unspecified developing country to produce art and bear witness to their patrons’ disintegrating marriage. Voinovich is at work on a new puppet show, a political morality play tentatively entitled The Hand That Feeds You, in which a group of serfs and donkeys, forced to toil in mines for gold, rises up against the king and queen and their despotic regime. The bats of the realm, Voino vich tells the painter, are “on…

Without Precedent: John Marshall and His Times by Joel Richard Paul. Riverhead, 502 pp., $30.00 George Washington was an inspiring leader, and Thomas Jefferson could turn a phrase; but to federal judges, the greatest of the Founding Fathers was undoubtedly John Marshall, chief justice of the US Supreme Court from 1801 to 1835, who forged the rule of federal law in American life. In his four-volume Life of John Marshall (1916), Albert J. Beveridge writes, “The work of John Marshall has been of supreme importance in the development of the American Nation, and its influence grows as time passes.” But Beveridge then cautions that “such exalted, if vague, encomium has been paid him, that, even to the legal profession, he has become a kind of mythical being, endowed with virtues…

PELOSI’S LEGACY To the Editors: Michael Hirsh’s article on Nancy Pelosi and Democrats distorts crucial congressional history and the reality of Democratic politics [“Who Will Speak for the Democrats?,” NYR, November 8]. (Admittedly, I am no neutral observer, having served as Pelosi’s chief of staff for eight years from 2005 to 2013, including during her entire speakership, but that experience helps reveal the shallowness of Hirsh’s article.) Hirsh argues that Pelosi and the other leadership are dangerously out of touch with an increasingly dissatisfied progressive base, and that her dismissive attitude is therefore fomenting open rebellion within the caucus and division within the party. Yes, there are a few progressive critics like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley, but hardly a substantial portion of either the caucus or the freshman class.…