The New York Review of Books - 07.11.2019

November 7, 2019 21 ernism became an act of finding, even in the most remote texts, words that spoke deeply to the Beiruti poets ...

22 The New York Review power is his literary autonomy. Mihyar is a universal, abstract figure, but he is also a product of his a ...

November 7, 2019 23 Exit Mugabe Joshua Hammer Two Weeks in November: The Astonishing Untold Story of the Operation That Toppled ...

24 The New York Review the “Lacoste” group, after the French fashion line with the crocodile logo. He also could count on the su ...

November 7, 2019 25 his paramilitary police to arrest Con- stantino Chiwenga, the commander in chief of the armed forces, upon h ...

26 The New York Review Escape Artist Morten Høi Jensen Henrik Ibsen: The Man and the Mask by Ivo de Figueiredo, translated from ...

November 7, 2019 27 In 1862, Kristiania Norske Teater declared bankruptcy. Within the next three years, the Norwegian Theater in ...

28 The New York Review Franco-Prussian War the same year completed Ibsen’s political disillusion- ment. Henceforth, the only pol ...

November 7, 2019 29 The Invention of Time G. W. Bowersock Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire by Paul J. Kosmin. Bel ...

30 The New York Review both present and future time: it closed off the past. To illustrate the rupture Kosmin shows that the Akk ...

November 7, 2019 31 (^3) Janine Balty, “La ‘mosaïque à l’éléphant’ de Huqoq: un document très convoité et d’interprétation contr ...

32 The New York Review The Long Paralysis of the Israeli Left Assaf Sharon Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin an ...

November 7, 2019 33 the United States, and in 1974 became prime minister. Two years later, when an Air France flight from Tel Av ...

34 The New York Review whose literal meaning invokes a pow- erful taboo, “war between brothers.” This was not Rabin’s first enco ...

November 7, 2019 35 Positive Capability Nick Laird The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem: From Baudelaire to Anne Carson edited and ...

36 The New York Review verse? In any event, that book was origi- nally published in 1900, so it’s hardly indicative of contempor ...

November 7, 2019 37 with language and more concerned with moral content, with morality it- self, with telling the speaker’s stor ...

38 The New York Review Changing the ‘Changeless’ Church Garry Wills When Bishops Meet: An Essay Comparing Trent, Vatican I, and ...

November 7, 2019 39 ican Council, as Pope Pius IX’s secular rule over the Papal States in Italy was being wrested from him by th ...

40 The New York Review A Woman’s Work Elaine Blair Becoming Beauvoir: A Life by Kate Kirkpatrick. Bloomsbury Academic, 476 pp., ...